The only way for visitors to the Okeeheelee Nature Center to see Alex the Great Horned Owl is in an auditorium with a handler. By the end of the summer, Clive Pinnock hopes the public can see Alex in his own habitat at the center. Pinnock, manager of ...

9 Jan 2009

My first flood experience came during my second year in America. Hurricane Agnes (famous enough to have a wikipedia entry ) was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it descended on Baltimore, but its flouncy skirts of cloud were still just as ...

9 Jan 2009

Annual measures to protect nesting raptors of Pinnacles National Monument will be reinstated as of January 15, according to a press release from Park Superintendent Eric Brunnemann. Last year, 5 pairs of prairie falcons produced a total of 12 ...

9 Jan 2009

The town has the opportunity to bring approximately 12 acres located behind Town Hall from private ownership into protected conservation status.   But, if they will remains to be seen.   Representatives from the Trust for Public Land and members ...

9 Jan 2009

It’s hard to imagine the freshly bulldozed black dirt in Wilderness Park could some day be a home to frogs, dragonflies, turtles and great blue herons. But that’s precisely what could happen if there is enough rain this spring and Mother Nature ...

9 Jan 2009

AMARGOSA VALLEY -- Thirteen participants spent from sunrise to sunset counting birdlife in the annual Christmas Bird Count at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Bird watchers counted 81 species, which broke the old record of 77 for the annual bird ...

7 Jan 2009