A pair of Fox Chapel area Eagle Scout hopefuls are seeking the highest honor in scouts through nature projects. Josh Lowe, who recently graduated from Fox Chapel Area High School, is in the process of ...

In this woodturning video, I will create a hybrid Christmas tree using offcuts of burl and green epoxy resin, which is cast into clear golden resin to form a snowball effect. The base is made from a ...

In 2022, the University of Vermont partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to use the land as a test subject.

The High Cascades are still plagued with snow and mosquitoes, so why not hike to a peak in the Old Cascades instead? These ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Nestled in the northeastern corner of the Keystone State, this 405-acre paradise somehow remains blissfully under-visited despite housing not one, not two, but three spectacular waterfalls that would ...

Hickory Run State Park in White Haven, Pennsylvania is the antidote to all that noise. Sprawling across nearly 16,000 acres in the western foothills of the Pocono Mountains, this natural sanctuary ...

These dangerous weeds may be popping up in more places than they used to for a variety of reasons, including the 2020 derecho ...

Many are getting out and enjoying the outdoors this summer, and while we all know to avoid poison ivy, there is another plant ...

Poison hemlock can irritate your skin, and ingesting it can be deadly. (Riley Hemmer, OurQuadCities.com) “This plant is ...

Poison hemlock contains the chemical compound coniine, a poisonous alkaloid. Although mentioned in Anglo-Saxon medicine as early as the 10th century, overdose produces paralysis causing ...