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Hikers in the Highlands

Anyone who doubts the importance of trails to a region’s attractiveness to visitors could experience attitude-adjustment by stopping at the Summit Inn this weekend. The Keystone Trails Association (KTA), a statewide hiking group with 1,000 members, is gathering there atop Chestnut Ridge, ...

Colombians divided over fate of hippos linked to Pablo Escobar

PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia (AP) — Along the Magdalena River, one of Colombia’s primary arteries, fishermen move with wary precision. From the silty, tea-colored current, hippopotamuses can surface without warning, closing the distance to a vessel in a single heartbeat. “These hippos are ...

May, one of my favorites

It’s a rainy Wednesday in Uniontown, however even a rainy day can be beautiful in late spring. The spring rain has added a dimension of color to the landscape that only appears around the beginning of May when the trees have put on their leaves and the woods and hillsides are full of this ...

Gobblers take center stage

History provides context on just how good Pennsylvania spring turkey hunters have had it lately. During the state’s first spring turkey season in 1968, the total take was 1,636. Compare that to last year, when hunters harvested an estimated 42,543 birds. Not only was that the largest ...

Never know about April snow

Almost 100 years ago on April 28, 1928 the Uniontown area and much of Western Pennsylvania was paralyzed when an innocent looking storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico and quickly moved to North Carolina. The storm intensified and affected much of the eastern United States and the Appalachian ...

Opt for green instead of screen

An interesting story in the spring issue of National Wildlife magazine begins with the writer’s favorite slang expression, “touch grass,” which refers to kids who use it to refer to friends who are spending too much time online and have lost touch with reality. With those two words they ...