Nature

Gravel biking is all the rage. The Mohonk Preserve has designed a 50.4-mile epic ride that will take adventure-seeking cyclists...

Sunlight grows feeble inside the entrance to the underground, and weaker still with each step deeper inside. The twilight dims...

Walkers, cyclists and Nordic skiers, rejoice! The Wallkill Valley Land Trust has announced that work will commence this week to...

Join Overlook Mountain Center (OMC) guides to visit Huckleberry Point atop the Wall of the Manitou above Devil’s Kitchen on...

Since he was a young boy, learning to ride horses and train them at his parents’ 100-acre horse farm in...

Join Overlook Mountain Center DEC guides Glenn Kreisberg and Dave Holden on Sunday, August 21 from 10 a.m. to 1...

As High Summer progresses, every day brings us new, additional, life-forms. With the increase in the dew point (and therefore,...

I’m a liar. I can’t help it. One or two things I write each week is wrong to some degree....

A black bear seems to be wandering around the Village of Saugerties.

The Stony Kill Foundation’s weeklong Butterflies & Blooms Festival is back, running from August 6 to 13 at the Stony...

Looking at the trees that surround us, it seems there could be nothing in nature more solid and immutable. But...

Step right up, folks, to Father Sky and Mother Earth’s Magical, Mystical, Midsummer Madness! See the night-sky shimmer with light and...

Join Overlook Mountain Center (OMC) guides Glenn Kreisberg and Dave Holden on Sunday, July 17 for an excursion to view...

Rockhounding is the act of finding and collecting rocks, minerals, and fossils. But why? Who are these  people sifting through...

Looking westward from the fancy white deck of a sailboat out on the Hudson River. Or just taking in the...

If you pay any attention at all to the kinds of development issues that tend to provoke ire among citizens...

While indeed the calendar says late spring, the vernal season is racing past. These rapid changes have accelerated the pace...

For no apparent reason, my seedlings sometimes take longer than usual to poke up through the soil. Or one day’s...

The month that has just come to an end turns out to be a crucial one for the plant world,...

Mohonk Preserve is inviting Ulster County neighbors to visit the Preserve and receive a free six-week pass during the Healthy...