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PITTSBURGH — About half of Allegheny County Parks field programs on fireflies are booked up and the 11th Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Nights in Forest County Kellettville is sold out again.
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018. Pennsylvania’s official state flower, the mountain laurel is in full bloom throughout the region. Although most people are familiar with the laurel’s relatives — rhododendron and azaleas — the official state flower is plentiful but in select environments, mostly rocky, moist
Local foresters, outdoors enthusiasts, biologists and motorcycle riders all have their favorite places to see the fall panorama of leaves. Mountains, hillsides and river valleys are among the best places to view the fall leaf spectacle not just because of the volume of trees, but the variety. “The diversity of
A nasty tiny insect is sucking the life out the state tree, the Eastern hemlock, hitting iconic trees at the Flight 93 crash site, Cook Forest, Fallingwater and one of the wildest landscapes close to Pittsburgh — the Buffalo Valley watershed in Buffalo Township. Known as the woolly adelgid, this