The Aiken community values our plant and animal life. There is a bluebird society, a monarch butterfly club, hiking clubs, and regular updates on the red-cockaded woodpecker’s endangered habitat, as ...

I was walking on a trail in the woods a couple of years ago and saw that two young men from Argentina had noticed a snake lying in the woods near a cypress tree. I told them to give it a wide berth ...

I write about fish and wildlife, and I serve on the circle of chiefs of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. I’m also a herp-protection activist and a former game and fish information officer.

A recent letter described the four lower Snake River dams as offering a line of defense against flooding (“Preserve lower Snake dams,” Our Readers’ Views, Dec. 30). In fact, they do not. Congress did ...

Environmental Educator Penny Lasauskas is guided by the three Fs of snake behavior: 1. Freeze. Snakes will typically freeze when they sense danger. 2. Flee. After freezing, they will try to get away ...

Our state is graced with a remarkable natural heritage. From the mighty American alligator to the rarest snake in North America, the Louisiana pine snake, Louisiana residents are stewards for our ...

Linda Wertheimer reads e-mails from listeners. Many writers objected to a recent story on the annual rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas, as callous and inhumane. Response was better to a reading ...