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Why Wild Turkeys Hate the Wild

The last bird known ... and then reimported across the Atlantic. As Europeans advanced across the continent, they drove out its native species. And as these creatures dwindled and disappeared, the ... read more

Is the wolf back in NH? Possible sighting reported in Madison

"In 1679, a bounty was placed on wolves by the General Assembly under the Colonial government.New Hampshire kept that law until they were all gone, or almost.The wolf was last ... wolf has had a tough ... read more

Peterborough-area farmhouse holds four generations of memories for the Franks clan

With their mother gone — she died there peacefully last January — and with places of their own, the two women had no reason to hang on to the ... The son of Irish immigrants, Ginger Franks was among ... read more

Oil company exec launches podcast on San Antonio history

Although blessed with year-round sources of water and a climate that allowed for two growing seasons, San Antonio was a remote and hard place to live for early settlers ... years that we're only now — ... read more

Penn State Creates a Breakthrough 3D Printing Technology for the NASA Housing Challenge

The race is on to develop the technology, space shuttles, and medicine that will take the first settlers. One key challenge is housing ... have worked arduously during the last few years on this ... read more

John Gould: an enduring witness to Australia’s lost mammals

Early European settlers were keenly attuned to the foibles of bettongs ... Now these animals have gone, even the best informed among us have no idea what we had. • John Gould’s Extinct and Endangered ... read more

I Recreated The Oregon Trail, And I Almost Killed LL Cool J*

We were greeted by pioneers in traditional dress, who had us pull the names of our three imaginary ... just like America’s early settlers did around the trail: Gunning down plastic bunnies, deer, and ... read more

Cincinnati's Founding Fathers: Six men, from the prestigious to the penniless, helped mold region

He called it "Egypt on the Miami," and he believed his plan would make him rich and chase away the Native Americans who had lived there ... Columbia grew at first, but its flood plain location finally ... read more

On way to disaster, a life of wrong turns

SEABROOK, N.H. — Two decades ago, the Hess family was on the run, fleeing the Pacific Northwest where the unthinkable had engulfed them, branded them, and left them grasping for a new life. They ... read more

Andy Ostmeyer: Early explorer noted uncommon character of Ozark streams

UPPER CURRENT — A morning mist had ... last to find them so. Over the next 150 years, the Current and other Ozark rivers earned an uncommon following from explorers, settlers, scientists, ... read more

My Dirty Kanza diary: 36 hours of mud, grit and glory

Because to survive in this American outback, as the first settlers learned 160 years ago, you have to help one another and you have to be tough ... course. “Last year I got a call in the middle of the ... read more

The woman who escaped a polygamous cult – and turned its HQ into a refuge

“My grandmother was actually one of the very first settlers in Short Creek ... drive up from Phoenix to give therapy sessions to residents. “In the last month we’ve had four mums and their children ... read more