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Conifers are a group of cone bearing plants that produce seeds without flowers or fruit. Almost all conifer species are trees, while a few are shrubs. Conifer forests dominate much of the Northern H...

We plant a “bunch” of sunflowers in our garden. We enjoy insect activity around the blooming heads in midsummer and later, after pollination and seed formation, the bird activity too. Bumble bees, ho...

We have a tendency to observe things at eye level. I know I did, and sometimes, still do. But not all that nature offers is in the trees or atop flower stalks. When I’m out nature snooping (which is a...

Our official state mammal is the white-tailed deer. Most, including me in this week’s column, will refer to them as whitetails. Whitetails have been surprisingly adaptable. Near the beginning of the ...

It’s beginning to sound like a broken record; another species in trouble. The subject animal this week is not one of the most visible or dynamic, yet the wood turtle’s problems are much to blame on hu...

In nature’s grand scheme of things, the energy for life on earth is from our sun. Plants, with their cells containing chlorophyll, are able to capture that energy, produce food (sugars,) and as a was...

It doesn’t matter the season of the year, or for that matter, where you travel in our local varied habitats. In the Times News coverage area I have found that nature offers so many things for our visu...

As much time as I’ve spent outdoors enjoying nature, there are still many mammal species in this country I have not seen in the wild. My travels throughout the Times News region and some Eastern stat...

My mother was born in 1921 and lived in Southwestern Carbon County near the Blue Mountain. She told me as a teen, she, her sister and mom would hitch up the farm horse, walk it up to the mountain and ...

In nature’s world of hide or be eaten, wild things across the globe that don’t rely on flight or speed to elude capture need to employ other methods. A ladybird beetle exudes a bad taste and its brig...