I never had the opportunity to meet or speak with Ned Smith, but I got to know him pretty well. Smith, who passed away in […] Read More
Author: Tom Venesky
I finally heard them… the true indicators that spring has arrived. Although the official date for the start of spring was March 20, I don’t […] Read More
No offense to the bald eagle, but Ben Franklin was right when he suggested more than 223 years ago that the wild turkey should be […] Read More
Gobbler season is just an excuse. Sure, when I hit the woods in the spring one of my goals is to bag a nice longbeard. […] Read More
Since last year, 123 additional free-ranging deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Pennsylvania, and Disease Management Areas 2 and 3 have […] Read More
There was meaning behind the sight of a lightning bug drifting lazily across the evening sky. It was a sign of better thing to come. […] Read More
When Waterways Conservation Officer John Cummings had Lake Wallenpaupack in his former district, he didn’t believe his career would take him to another place that […] Read More
For the last seven years, Pennsylvania has led the nation in confirmed cases of Lyme disease. There were 12,000 new cases alone in 2016, and […] Read More
One year when I accompanied Dr. Art McMorris of the Pennsylvania Game Commission to do a story on peregrine falcons, I was fortunate to hold […] Read More
When Dorothy Sowa called me a couple of months ago, I knew what I had to do. Dorothy told me that her husband, Stan Sowa, […] Read More
