
Plan now for healthy bird habitat year-round
Winter is the perfect time for homeowners to make landscape changes to protect birds in cold weather and to provide year-round habitat.

Winter is the perfect time for homeowners to make landscape changes to protect birds in cold weather and to provide year-round habitat.

In recent decades, it’s become more and more clear that the state of our planet’s environment is hurtling towards true catastrophe.

Like all evergreens, the American holly does not lose its leaves en masse at the end of the growing season.

William Hopkins, professor of wildlife in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, has been selected to receive a 2021 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and Dominion Energy.

The trek to Everest Base Camp is beautiful, and it is called a trekker’s paradise.

The City of Staunton is working with the wildlife services division of the USDA to move vultures that have been roosting in the Gypsy Hill, Reservoir Hill and Hillcrest areas.

Legislation co-sponsored by Sen. Warner that would ban the private ownership of big cats, such as lions, tigers, and cougars that are often kept in unsafe and inhumane conditions, passed the House this week.

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.

Volunteers are needed to plant more than 1,000 native trees on a farm in Augusta County beginning Thursday.

Cheatgrass is an annual grass native to Europe and eastern Asia that European settlers brought to North America in the late 1800s as forage for grazing their livestock.
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