The Allegheny is primarily a hardwood forest, and many of its dominant species are shade-intolerant. Foresters like Saf and ...

A mix of outdoors stories from Pennsylvania, including the closure of several facilities within Allegheny National Forest to ...

The Allegheny National Forest encompasses more than 500,000 acres in four counties and is the only national forest in Pennsylvania. The Allegheny National Forest is set to ramp up logging by more than ...

The Trump administration wants to roll back the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects wild areas in national forests including in Pennsylvania, saying it will get rid of unneeded regulations, but critics ...

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In one of the most remote yet beautiful areas of Pennsylvania lies Allegheny National Forest, home to several endangered species as well as the Eastern hellbender salamander — our state amphibian, ...

As all the backcountry campers plodded past us, my husband and I should have known something was different in the Allegheny National Forest. I’d never seen as many trekkers loaded down with gear for ...

It was a sink or swim conversation awash in water puns at a recent meeting with representatives of the Warren County Visitors Bureau and the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau as they discussed ...

On Mother’s Day 1938, four-year-old Marjorie West vanished from Allegheny National Forest in the seconds her older sister ran ...

ELK COUNTY — In Elk County, a behemoth is performing surgery on a forest. Its yellow head — taller than a human and equipped with 18 “teeth” — cuts through the base of trees and gently lays logs down ...