The Archives

A chronological record of stories, dispatches, and histories from across the Allegheny Plateau.

To look out from Jakes Rocks, high above the looping expanse of the Allegheny Reservoir, is to witness the landscape of the "...

The ecological history of the Allegheny National Forest is often told in two rapid, devastating waves. The first was the grea...

To walk through the Allegheny National Forest today is to wander through a "second-growth" landscape—a resilient, lush ...

Before the Allegheny National Forest became a sanctuary of second-growth timber and deep, unglaciated valleys, it was the raw...

In the annals of environmental disasters specific to the Pennsylvania Wilds, few events match the sheer, crushing power of th...

The Allegheny National Forest (ANF) is a place of deep, almost primordial quiet. It is defined by its unique, unglaciated pla...

While the legends of the Allegheny National Forest often dwell in the shadows of the ancient pines or the echoes of the deep ...

Any camper who has spent an evening near the Kinzua Reservoir or hiked the North Country Trail in late spring knows the truth...

While the Kinzua region is defined by its deep valleys and submerged history, its southern neighbor—...