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There are still 6 weeks left until the June solstice, and we're not spending them twiddling our thumbs.

The Lehigh River is threatened by “poorly planned development,” American Rivers says. But there are simple, everyday solutions to help.

For the first time in more than a decade, efforts are underway to restore vegetation and wildlife to a mountain in Carbon County.

Starting today, airplanes will apply native seeds and soil amendments on portions of Blue Mountain as part of the remediation effort for the Palmerton Zinc Pile Superfund Site. Twelve species of nativ...

The Lehigh Gap Nature Center will host “A Buzztail Odyssey: The Pennsylvania Timber Rattlesnake Project” from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The in-person event features guest speaker Rob Bertoni, a deputy wil...

Lehigh Gap Nature Center will conduct its 27th annual Lehigh Gap Area Feeder Watch Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fifty-eight volunteers participated in the 26th annual survey last February and observed...

The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's annual meeting is held in person for the first time since 2019 and it was a pleasure.

Throughout September and October, the 23 nature centers that make up the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River (AWE) will host fun, family-friendly, mostly free events as part of the organization’s annual River Days festivities.

Blue grosbeaks and prairie warblers often flutter around the grasslands of the Lehigh Gap. Soon, drivers traveling through the area will see them displayed on an old railroad bridge abutment currently...

Brush fires on the Blue Mountain in Lehigh Township were intentionally set. Investigators from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources have ruled the large and smoky wildfire that broke o...