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With flamboyant pink feathers and a lot of moxie sits an 18-year-old roseate spoonbill on its nest in Florida Bay. Ornithologists rediscovered the bird as part of Audubon Florida’s ongoing

Senior citizens have always flocked to Florida’s sandy shores, but the one that showed up last week really stood out. It’s — quite literally — a tough old bird.

Half of the sale of each purse will benefit The Everglades Foundation.

Elmwood Farm in Georgetown is one of the few, if not the only farm in the country to raise all-organic heritage turkeys.

Some meat markets are having trouble finding turkeys to sell ahead of Thanksgiving.

At least the first half was close?

The Siena International Photo Awards has a deserved reputation for consistently showcasing breathtaking photography. And this years winners and commended entries keep the standard up.

The Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a paradise for wildlife and for Mac Stone’s camera. “I just fell in love with it,” said Stone, a National Geographic Explorer and photographer. Now, Stone’s work is garnering international attention as the Natural History Museum in London selected one of his photographs for its annual wildlife photographer of the […]

Hopefully, no one feels too strongly about that. We’re the University of Nebraska, not the other way around, and they’re nowhere near the northwest. We all have problems.

It’s 4 a.m. in Vesper Basin, deep in Washington’s Cascades, and I’m building a dam out of twigs. The rain started two days ago; not with a roar but rather a slow drumming, wrapping the world in fog until even the near edge of the cirque vanished. Our tarp-tent made a good effort for the first 45 hours, but now the soil is saturated, and tiny rivers are snaking under our sleeping pads. Hence the twig dam. My three tentmates and I scramble into rain pants and jackets, squinting into the mis...