“Darkness comes swiftly in the Long Night Moon of December. At the end of this twenty-first day of the month, this shortest day of the year, this time when, in other ages, men lit bonfires to ...

MONTPELIER – Now that there’s finally snow on the ground, it’s the time of year to get out and check for animal tracks. Few may feel as strongly about that than John Jose, a wildlife biologist with ...

SODUS, N.Y. — According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State hasn’t had a confirmed wild cougar population since the late 1800s. But one man in Sodus captured ...

Following up a on study in 2021 of tracks found in New Mexico, researchers used more methods to bolster the claim that the tracks are up to 23,000 years old. By Maya Wei-Haas Hidden within the ...

Back in the fall I claimed that I could write about squirrels every week. I didn’t quite reach that goal, but now, in the depth of winter, squirrels are still on my mind. This is reasonable, squirrels ...

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