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Outdoors

Community Outdoor calendar for week of May 20

REMAKE LEARNING DAYS: HABITAT HIKE WHERE: Hyner Run State Park and Little Pine State Park WHEN: Friday, May 23 at 3:30 p.m. (Little Pine) and 7:30 p.m. (Hyner Run) NOTES: Join the environmental education specialist for “Remake Learning Days: Habitat Hike” on the Hyner Run Nature ...

Williamsport company uses insects to prevent food waste

Inside a large aquarium, a ten-inch-deep mass of caramel-brown maggots eats and eats and eats. While the army of black soldier fly larvae might alarm some, to Aubrey Fornwalt, owner of Full Circle Bioconversion, this is just business as usual. Based in Williamsport, Fornwalt’s company ...

Plenty of reasons to support our local wardens, WCOs

The internet is a wonderful tool and can also be great entertainment. But there are times when I wish I never turned it on, usually after reading something that frustrates or infuriates me to no end. One such topic is the unrelentless badgering that our game wardens and waterways conservation ...

Reflections in Nature: There’s plenty of medical use for various plants

No matter if the flowers a mother receives on Mother’s Day are bouquets of dandelions, violets, lilacs or roses, each will be lovingly received. I hope the abundance of pollen does not keep you from spending time outside during the month of May. No other month — except for September — ...

Community Outdoor calendar for week of May 13

AUDUBON EVENT: GLACIER POOLS PRESERVE WHERE: 757 Pine Tree Road in Hughesville WHEN: Saturday, May 17 at 9 a.m. NOTES: Join the Lycoming Audubon Society on a venture to the eastern portion of Lycoming County and walk the woods and fields of this unique 270 acre preserve. Woodpeckers ...