I’m all for devices, software and apps that make finding your way in the out of doors that much easier. I’ve used a handheld GPS to track down a geocache high in the eastern Sierra Nevada, and the same device to map the driving route back home. And, at this point, who hasn’t plugged an [...]
Encountered June 15 on Route 8, just north of Route 77 in Crawford County. This can’t be easy to back down an access ramp. Buffer
Actually, Hall Barn is better used as one stop in a daylong reconnoiter of the Allegheny River than as a destination unto itself. It’s one of my favorite places in the region to spend an hour or so walking the short paths and spotting birds and other wildlife. Not to mention the bats. The U.S. [...]
The reservoir at Union City Dam at this time of year typically features a meandering and sometimes braided French Creek in the midst of a dry bed covered with low-lying vegetation. Not this rainy June. The reservoir is filled as far as the eye can see from atop the 42-year-old dam. Banks push [...]
I ask only a few things of the water bottles I carry on fishing outings, hikes and during day trips and cross-country drives. First, durability. My bottles are going to take a beating — not a Himalayan expedition or first-descent beating, but a battering nonetheless by way of a hundred drops in the stream, on the [...]
These three were keeping the riff-raff out Saturday at Fry’s Landing on Presque Isle State Park. Buffer
The storms of the past week left Oil Creek State Park none the worse for wear, based on our day trip Sunday. We’d hoped to see the same multitude of warblers that haunted the Venango County park in summer 2012 at a time when many of the migrants in Presque Isle State Park had already moved [...]
Children 12 years and under are invited to participate in the fifth annual Fishing Is For Fun Day Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon near Perry Monument at Presque Isle State Park. Members of the Erie Pennsylvania Sport Fishing Association will provide fishing tackle for kids who need it, bait, a lunch of hot dogs, [...]
Have a libation today in support of Tamarack Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center. Take a seat at the Cocktails & Hawktales Celebrity Bartending Social today from 5-8 p.m. at the Bel-Aire Clarion Hotel Lounge, 2800 W. Eighth St. All tips that are collected during the event will go to Tamarack for supplies the staff needs [...]
A Cocktales and Hawktales fundraiser for Tamarack Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center will take place Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at the Bel-Aire Clarion Hotel and Conference Center. All tips raised from the celebrity bartending event will be donated to Tamarack for supplies such as medication, bandages and food. Buffer