Once nearly wiped out by overhunting and logging, nest boxes kept wood ducks from vanishing – and volunteers are still putting them up today.

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is ...

Signage has been put in place at entrances and footpaths to provide warning. Locals have been urged to keep to paths, keep ...

Tim Taylor's wood duck painting has been selected for Ohio's 2027 Wetlands Habitat Stamp by a panel of judges, beating 22 other entries, with sales supporting wetland conservation efforts.

So, my friends, we might take courage from the Wood Duck, ruffle our feathers, and leap! Not expecting to fly right away, but ...

From coastal plains and swamps to rolling hills and the Blue Ridge Mountains, South Carolina’s diverse geography supports a ...

What lures bird-watchers to Lake Apopka is the same thing that brings hunters there. But one group shoots pictures, while the other shoots ducks. Both pastimes are legal recreational activities around ...

In the 1850s, W.G. Gresham settled one of the earliest claims on Swan Lake, in southern Minnesota, a stone’s throw from the small burg of Nicollet. Gresham, who later became a judge in St. Peter, Minn ...

A Western tanager visited a feeder in Yarmouth and a male painted bunting continued at a feeder in Brewster. A flock of 20 Bohemian waxwings was found near Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. Sadness ...

More than a century after the Mountain West’s silver and gold rushes, mercury used to process those metals is still moving ...

When duck hunting season is over, many retriever dogs compete in events like the Super Retriever Series, where they perform ...

Oregon state parks reported a decline in visitors in 2025, a trend that affected even the state’s least-visited park sites.