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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently announced the 2025 Lone Star Land Steward Ecoregion Award winners, including a Lamb County ranch known for its efforts to promote wildlife and ...

When the cannery that opened in Marshallberg, a little village in Down East Carteret County, in 1937 ran out of oysters, tomatoes or other crops to can, they turned to canning sea turtles, writes ...

It's time to get outside. Spring has sprung, and bird calls fill the air. Why it matters: Birding is booming as people seek calm, purpose and easy escapes in an increasingly anxious world. There's no ...

We were ready and heading east at ... of stunning ducks have ‘gone dark’ and have become very secretive is the Mandarin pair that frequent usually the Swan Pond. This species actually nests ...

Hilcorp has signed oil leases with Doyon, the Indigenous-owned corporation for Interior Alaska, which hopes the drilling ...

Forrest Keeling Nursery supplies The Giving Grove with native trees that are used in community orchards and food forests ...

Sheriff A.J. 'Tony' Smith hosted a two-hour boat ride to explain why North Florida is no place for oil drilling.

This story has been made free as a public service. Please consider subscribing to support local journalism. Rain that has battered Kentucky over the past several days will begin to move east Sunday, ...

Ranchers along the Gulf Coast have worked with federal and state agencies for decades to restore thousands of acres of ...

Conservation and biodiversity bird experts at the Harte Research Institute warn that water bird populations in the Coastal ...