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Lot’s going on as summer winds down

As we move into late summer a lot is going on. Families are busy winding down summer vacations and getting ready for the school year. Some districts have already started their fall schedule and school supplies and fall clothing are on family agendas. The heat of summer is quickly passing ...

Trump administration moves ahead to end roadless rule on national forests

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ÎÞëÊÓÆµ” The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging, road building and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide. The U.S. Forest ...

How many bears in Connecticut?

As it would for the typical U.S. Census taker, the work of counting bears in the woods starts with a clipboard and a blank piece of paper. Armed with this equipment ÎÞëÊÓÆµ” along with bear spray and, perhaps more importantly, tick repellent ÎÞëÊÓÆµ” a team of researchers has been fanning out to ...

Summer is flying by

Have you noticed that the sun is setting earlier and rising a few minutes later each morning? We have now lost some 75 minutes of daylight and our average temperatures have slipped a few degrees downward. In fact most of the 90 degree-plus weather may be over. So far this summer we have ...

Walk on the Wild Side

Trails at Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Farmington offer a convenient and appealing place for exercise. The battlefieldÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s paths traverse meadows and woods just as George WashingtonÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s little army did in his 1754 campaign that kindled the French and Indian War. For a 3-mile ...

Black rock and brown sandstone

IsnÎÞëÊÓÆµ™t it amazing that Appalachian Black Lung rates are the highest in nearly 50 years as coal miners protections stall while the Black Lung Trust Fund owes $3 billion to the US Treasury because of company bankruptcies and being under insured; all of this while the administration in June ...