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Outdoors

SGP mini- grant program awards $40,000

LEWISBURG — The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024-2025 Susquehanna Greenway Mini-Grant Program. This year’s funding categories included outreach and education, wayfinding and signage, trails and active transportation, and temporary ...

Reflections in Nature: Winterberry holly has been a staple of Christmas

The colorful leaves have fallen off the trees, leaving much of the countryside a drab brown color, however, the orange berries of the bittersweet and the red berries of the winterberry holly provide much color on gray and snowy winter days. Mary Alice and I have been noticing that this year ...

PGC to discuss proposals for the 2025-26 hunting and trapping seasons

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners’ Wildlife Management Committee will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 1 p.m. to discuss and recommend proposals for the 2025-26 hunting and trapping seasons. The Wildlife Management Committee was formed this fall, with ...

Susquehanna bridges help build connections across the Susquehanna Greenway

The Susquehanna River is a piece of living history, connecting communities to the natural landscape throughout Pennsylvania. Bridges make up one building block in this network of connections, and many of them used to be covered. Of the 14,000 covered bridges constructed across the United ...

Hyner Mountain Snowmobile Club offers safety course

The Hyner Mountain Snowmobile Club’s youth Pennsylvania snowmobile safety course will be conducted on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025 at the Hyner Mountain Snowmobile Club lodge. It’s located approximately six miles north of Haneyville and directly across Route 44 from Pat Reeders Tavern in ...

Fish and Wildlife Services seeks public comment on hellbender

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list the eastern hellbender as an endangered species throughout its range under the Endangered Species Act. Eastern hellbenders are found in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, ...