Nature

Eels and crayfish, oh my…

The summer light wanes, sending an ancient signal to all beings in the northern hemisphere that it is time for...

For those of us who care about preserving the Shawangunk Ridge...

Step right up, folks, to Father Sky and Mother Earth’s magical, mystical, midsummer madness!

Saugerties water department superintendent Mike Hopf shared a heartwarming story at the village board’s regular meeting on Monday, July 15....

Bald eagles with eaglet. (Photo by Dave Holden) Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half...

Everyone has a bear story...

The light in the woods has changed so abruptly...

Life is starting to really flow now, gradually gaining that glacier-like, unstoppable momentum...

Owl’s well that ends well…

The Lady has doffed her snowy mantle, exchanging it for her verdant Cloak of Life.

Ulster County’s new Nature Bus program got off to a stealthy start on Saturday, April 27.

Finally Spring begins to unfold and this moon (interchangeable with ‘month,’ but runs from full moon to full moon) is...

The Worm Moon — Finally the increasingly-higher angle of the Sun’s rays will start to have an effect.

Erik Kulleseid, who spent his final day as the commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation &...

Polar winds plunge over the southeast Catskills, freezing all before them and casting frosty whiteness about as they continue to...

If bears had birthday parties, they’d all be in January and February.

As the new year began, local headlines spread word of a new, offbeat contest. The State Department of Environmental Conservation...

Pre-settlement and up through the settlement era, there were many wolves (mostly grey, I believe) still in the northeast until...

Get your binoculars out….