The $40,000 purchase will come out of Manatee County’s conservation tax, allowing the preserve to span nearly 100 acres. “The north end of Pine Island was acquired to help complete the site ...

If private landowners don’t remove invasives alongside natural areas, species like buckthorn will persist in forest preserves ...

Preserving a species is painstaking, time-consuming work. Andres Ortega, aquatic resources supervisor with the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, knows that firsthand. For nearly a decade ...

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To find out the deals of the week back then, all you had to do was dial the dealership at 4-1-6-1. “In the 1930s, we had a four-digit phone number,” Parkhill notes.

A change to the Downstate Forest Preserve Act requested by the Kendall County Forest Preserve District didn’t make it into the revenue bill at the end of the spring session. The district wants the ...

The 36,600-acre Whitney Park estate in the Adirondacks has long been on environmental groups and the state’s conservation wish lists.

Otter attacks someone visiting Florida recreation complex, resulting in victim being hospitalized, investigators say. The otter has eluded capture.

Liane Jollon is leaving the Health District of Northern Larimer County weeks after a board election in which some candidates raised concerns.

CHICAGO — Chicago-area transit agencies will begin planning for massive service cuts in the wake of the legislature’s failure to address the region’s funding shortfall — but there could still be a ...