The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Altoona is proud to announce Echoes of the Wild: The Wildlife Art of George LaVanish, a major retrospective exhibition celebrating the distinguished career of nationally recognized wildlife artist, illustrator, and publisher George LaVanish. The ...
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — Muddy, sweat-soaked and occasionally bloody, the dedicated staff at a Mississippi wildlife center are drill sergeants. And their soldiers? Baby raccoons. Welcome to raccoon boot camp, where the goal is to help sick or injured animals learn to survive in the ...
The archery deer season in Pennsylvania opens this weekend at a half hour before sunrise on Saturday and continues through Friday, Nov. 20. The winter archery deer season will then commence the day after Christmas and continue through Jan. 24 for those die-hard bowhunters who still have an ...
A few days ago as I was reading through some of my notes for an upcoming article, it struck me that it is already squirrel season. In fact, the season for those tree-dwelling critters opened on Sept. 12, so as of this weekend it has actually been open for two weeks. Traditionally, the ...
By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com While the trout season’s annual opening day on the first Saturday of each April is one of the biggest events on the calendar for the state’s sportsmen, trout stocking for the year by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s waterway ...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — A reptile believed to be struggling in sand at a Southern California beach was simply making history: a sea turtle laying eggs on the U.S. West Coast. And three days later, there were more. An olive ridley turtle — maybe the same one — laid eggs on Sept. 19, a few miles away near the Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County, authorities said. “This is the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species” on the West Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast Fisheries division said on Facebook. Olive ...
