“Grandpa Adam, I want to catch a ginormous beaver, as big as me,” declared my son Rorick, while speaking on the phone with my father. We had been telling many bedtime stories lately about the beavers that his Grandpa Adam and I had caught in the past. Even the less colorful stories were eagerly absorbed by my son’s ears as he began to catch the fever for going trapping for beavers.
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BY HUNTER HILL
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1/18/23
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” wrote the poet John Keats. “Some shape of beauty moves away the pall/From our dark spirits,” he continues in Book I of “Endymion.” The revered poet cites “The sun, the moon/Trees old and young,” along with other restorative elements of nature.
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BY SANDY LONG
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1/18/23
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The PA Game Commission is again looking for public help through the month of August for the annual Pennsylvania Wild Turkey Sighting Survey.
This is a citizen-science project that counts the …
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By SCOTT RANDO
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7/12/23
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SHOHOLA, PA — The Twin and Walker Creeks Watershed Conservancy (TWCWC) welcomed the winners of the 2023 photo contest recently and reminded all that photos are being accepted for 2024.
For …
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11/7/23
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Every angler I know who fishes with a fly has a library. Some are extensive with hundreds of volumes, covering complete walls. Others, like mine, are relatively small with just a few shelves …
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By TONY BONAVIST
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12/13/23
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So much of living out here is based on opposing forces. How to prepare against these forces, or manage through them, is what makes a great homesteader. My regular readers will recall that my wife and I have a hearty flock of chickens, and if you’ve ever raised chickens on any scale, you’ll know there are quite a few of these forces to contend with.
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BY HUNTER HILL
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11/23/22
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Many of us have heard owls in the woods as they call; many times, the call may be far off and faint, and we might not realize at the time that it is even an owl.
The most common species of …
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By SCOTT RANDO
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12/13/23
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The butcher’s kids go hungry and the cobbler’s kids go shoeless. I used to hear this phrase often, but perhaps less so lately.
The idea behind it is that the thing we might do as a …
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By HUNTER HILL
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9/13/23
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Fungi are fascinating, not only for their ecological, medicinal and culinary properties, but also for the multitude of interesting forms in which they appear.
From puffballs to slime molds, from …
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By SANDY LONG
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9/13/23
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Fall is normally associated with harvesting and cleaning up and getting the land ready for next year.
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BY HUNTER HILL
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9/28/22
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Bird lovers, photographers, painters en plein air, outdoor recreationists, walkers and wanderers might like to know about a new overlook constructed earlier this year at the Shohola Waterfowl Area in Shohola, PA.
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BY SANDY LONG
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9/28/22
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As I write this (11 March), the temperature is in the 30s with a brisk NW wind that is gusting over 40 miles per hour—but I am thinking of spring. Someone who lives near Stroudsburg, PA told me …
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By SCOTT RANDO
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3/15/24
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The season for mittens—and for middens—is upon us. A good way to ward off the winter blues is to dress for the weather and opt outside to see which animals are out and about as they …
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By SANDY LONG
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1/17/24
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It happens every year at this time, right aound the beginning of August. That’s when the first monarch butterflies show up at camp. They float along on the warm afternoon breeze, looking for a last bloom with a bit of nectar, in order to refuel before they undertake the long journey that will eventually lead to Mexico. At least it will for those that survive that arduous and difficult trip.
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BY TONY BONAVIST
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9/6/22
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Although it might not have happened in March, in the sudden stillness of the snowed-in season, I find myself reflecting on a few fond memories in hopes to keep their stories alive.
As I was …
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By HUNTER HILL
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3/15/23
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By now, large brown trout have begun their annual spawning migrations from the six large New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) reservoirs located in the Catskills.
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BY TONY BONAVIST
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10/19/22
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Except for a few species that overwinter in a sheltered spot or underground, the majority of insects hatch out during the spring months. They go through their life cycles over the summer and into early autumn, and then the cold weather arrives.
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BY SCOTT RANDO
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10/19/22
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With the impending arrival of spring, animal activity is increasing throughout the Upper Delaware River region. While March 20 heralds the official arrival of this most welcome season, there are …
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By SANDY LONG
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3/15/23
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I’m a big John Denver fan. Have been for quite a while.
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By HUNTER HILL
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5/11/22
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Spring is a great time of year to observe the activities of animals, birds and insects throughout the Upper Delaware River region.
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By SANDY LONG
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5/11/22
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