Nature

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….

50 reports of bear conflicts, the highest in the area.

As our Earth spins on its journey around the sun, this is the time that the northern hemisphere is tilted...

The Village of New Paltz and the Mill Brook Preserve Inc. have announced that the long awaited bridge in the...

Autumn winds — Winds of seasonal change blow across these ancient hills, lifting dry leaves from their now sapless branches,...

I think we’ve seen the last Hummingbirds and Monarchs (what relatively few there were) for the season, with a few northern...

Throughout the most recent century, Woodstock has probably had a more varied proportion of seekers, both secular and spiritual, than...