by Kent Jackson | Outdoors
A log home perched below a falls on Rattling Run in Swatara State Park has been dubbed the Falling Water of Lebanon County. In 1939, two years after Frank Lloyd Wright finished a tiered fountain of a house astride Bear Run in Fayette County that he called Falling...
by Kent Jackson | Outdoors
An update about the state of the state’s lakes starts with pollution, bacterial blooms and invasive species. Those issues in Pennsylvania lakes mirror water troubles worldwide. Climate change plays a role. Water temperatures rise, winter ice packs decline, more...
by Kent Jackson | Outdoors
You don’t have to look hard to see wildlife. A fawn crossed my path as I drove to work one morning. The night before, a rabbit hopped across the career center lawn as I walked into a school board meeting. Like Peter Rabbit eluding Mr. McGregor, the rabbit hid from my...
by Kent Jackson | Outdoors
Deer in Northeast states are more susceptible to chronic wasting disease than deer in the west, where the fatal disease originated, a Penn State study found. The study focused on 11 genetic markers that predict which deer are least vulnerable to the disease and found...
by Kent Jackson | Outdoors
Think national parks, and Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Everglades come to mind. But Pennsylvania has a baker’s dozen of national parks and historic sites, including Steamtown National Historic Site, Delaware Water Gap, Valley Forge and Hopewell Furnace within a drive...
