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Reckoning with the new weather

John Vaillant captures the essence of a new kind of weather in his book “Fire Weather.” ItĢƵ the story of the Fort McMurray forest fire in Alberta, Canada that destroyed most of the town in 2016. Almost 100,000 people had to be evacuated when the unprecedented fire took officials by ...

Game commission releases deer harvest estimates

The Pennsylvania Game Commission today reported results from the 2023-24 deer seasons, which ended in January. Hunters harvested an estimated 430,010 white-tailed deer. The statewide buck harvest was estimated at 171,600, while the antlerless harvest was estimated at 258,410. The ...

Outdoors Calendar

TRAP, SKEET AND WOBBLE SHOOTING AT FAYETTE GUN CLUB The Fayette Gun Club is having trap, skeet and wobble shooting at its facility at 1435 Gun Club Road, Uniontown every Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. and every Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. or last shooter. Cost is $5 per round for members and $6 for ...

Dangers of an early spring

Sunny pleasant mild days have dominated much of our winter and early spring. Temperatures in December were 7 degrees above normal followed by 4 above for January and 7 above for February. So far March is 11 degrees above our average. Even with the chilly recent days, we are still heading ...

Are we ready?

Perhaps more important is the question are you ready? An article in the ĢƵ this past week discussed the troubling results from a recent climate risk assessment that Europe, like much of the world, is ill prepared to handle the risks coming from our changing climate. We have ...