HARRISBURG — This past week, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources celebrated the addition of two forest tracts in Potter and Schuylkill counties into the national Old-Growth Forest Network: Ole Bull State Park in Potter County and the Tuscarora State Park in ...
The state Supreme Court in a divided ruling last week concluded that property owners who take steps to protect their privacy should be afforded greater protection against warrantless searches by game wardens. The ruling came after a years-long dispute between game wardens and two hunting clubs in Indiana County and largely centers on whether Pennsylvania law differs from federal “open fields doctrine” indicating that outside areas do not have the same right to privacy as the interior of buildings. Justice Kevin Brobson, who authored the opinion, noted that over the years, wardens ...
HARRISBURG — Absent from Pennsylvania for over 60 years, the federal and state endangered piping plover, a small shorebird, has made a comeback at Presque Isle State Park in Erie. Federal, state and local officials recently came together at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Erie for ...
A man who was thrown into the air by a bison in Yellowstone National Park says the animal didn’t seem aggressive until it picked him as a target. Sixty-five-year-old Carl McDaniel recalled the July 10 attack in a video recorded in a hospital bed, where he was recovering from bone ...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — New protections for endangered right whales in the North Atlantic would be postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington last week with the full-throated support of the fishing and lobster industries. Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. There are only about 380 North Atlantic right whales left. The federal government has already paused any new right whale rules until 2028, and the House Natural Resources ...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they move in to capture them, one of the football-size birds, with bright-orange bills and long legs, scampers into a coastal salt pond. The other briefly takes to the air, sending the team running across the mile-and-a-half-long beach in pursuit. “There is a problem. They can fly,” Alan Kneidel, a senior conservation biologist with the environmental group Manomet Conservation Sciences, said as ...
