Kurt Bresswein

Gravel crunched under tires and dust kicked up from the access road into Nockamixon State Park , as a Pennsylvania Game Commission truck lumbered through with its cargo of hundreds of fowl.

The Northcentral Regional ATV Trail (NRAT) Connector in the Pennsylvania Wilds is drawing riders and benefitting the local economy, a Penn State study finds.

Wildlands Conservancy on Wednesday celebrated the opening of its Black River Sanctuary atop South Mountain, offering seven trails spanning three miles on the border between Salisbury and Upper Saucon townships.

Insurance studies show Pennsylvania is among the worst states for wildlife collisions, so game officials are offering tips to avoid deer crashes that become more common in fall.

Hexenkopf Ridge Preserve outside Easton offers a trail hike and rocky outcroppings, some said to resemble a Hexenkopf — German for witch's head — with a history of superstitious healing.

Adding woods like these in southeastern Pennsylvania to the national Old-Growth Forest Network aims to keep them protected from logging and to let people know they're there.

State and local officials joined Easton small-business owners in unveiling Elevate, a campaign dedicated to growing the outdoor recreation industry across Pennsylvania.

The animal life I encountered while visiting Hexenkopf Ridge Preserve was, in a word, foreboding.

As the calendar flipped to November, white-tailed deer are approaching the peak of their breeding activity — known as the rut — around mid-month.

Additional tags to hunt and harvest deer were announced after a fatal disease was confirmed in parts of south-central and western Pennsylvania.