The summer light wanes, sending an ancient signal to all beings in the northern hemisphere that it is time for...
Read moreFor those of us who care about preserving the Shawangunk Ridge...
Read moreStep right up, folks, to Father Sky and Mother Earth’s magical, mystical, midsummer madness!
Read moreSaugerties water department superintendent Mike Hopf shared a heartwarming story at the village board’s regular meeting on Monday, July 15....
Read moreBald eagles with eaglet. (Photo by Dave Holden) Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half...
Read moreThe light in the woods has changed so abruptly...
Read moreLife is starting to really flow now, gradually gaining that glacier-like, unstoppable momentum...
Read moreOwl’s well that ends well…
Read moreThe Lady has doffed her snowy mantle, exchanging it for her verdant Cloak of Life.
Read moreUlster County’s new Nature Bus program got off to a stealthy start on Saturday, April 27.
Read moreFinally Spring begins to unfold and this moon (interchangeable with ‘month,’ but runs from full moon to full moon) is...
Read moreThe Worm Moon — Finally the increasingly-higher angle of the Sun’s rays will start to have an effect.
Read moreErik Kulleseid, who spent his final day as the commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation &...
Read morePolar winds plunge over the southeast Catskills, freezing all before them and casting frosty whiteness about as they continue to...
Read moreIf bears had birthday parties, they’d all be in January and February.
Read moreAs the new year began, local headlines spread word of a new, offbeat contest. The State Department of Environmental Conservation...
Read morePre-settlement and up through the settlement era, there were many wolves (mostly grey, I believe) still in the northeast until...
Read moreGet your binoculars out….
Read more50 reports of bear conflicts, the highest in the area.
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