Ptarmigan are extremely hard to see in our white winters. I like to imagine seeing them in the snow living happily with fewer ...

A surefire way to tell if you’re looking at a pine tree is to check its plural needles, which always grow in clusters or “packets,” usually in groups of two, three, or five. Some species split open ...

AmeriCorps volunteers are putting their minds and muscles to work in Central Arkansas, improving the C.A. Vines Arkansas 4-H Center with projects great and small during the final months of 2024. Nine ...

Patsy Davis, the executive director of Mountain Projects, Inc. was the woman of the hour last week when she was celebrated at a luncheon upon becoming a member of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the ...

Bend-La Pine Schools has sold a 2.5-acre piece of land next to Summit High School to Habitat for Humanity to build 15 homes for district employees and others in the community. The future Skyline ...

Former Haywood County Sheriff Greg Christopher, a fellow member of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, said Davis' leadership has lifted Mountain Projects to the top in the field of nonprofits that ...

Patsy Davis, the executive director of Mountain Projects, Inc. was the woman of the hour last week when she was celebrated at a luncheon upon becoming a member of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the ...

Luckily, with the right Christmas tree care, you can minimize the number of needles your tree sheds while it's up. If you're tired of vacuuming pine needles every Christmas and you want your tree ...

Pine Gate Renewables says the Sunstone project in Morrow County is the largest permitted solar power plant in the U.S. State regulators have approved construction of a giant solar power plant ...

Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl with the Needle” reminded me of the excellent and unsparing “Beanpole.” If you’ve seen the latter film, you know the degree of miserabilism that comparison entails. This is ...