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The five-year blueprint outlines 14 goals and 55 action steps, including making Pennsylvania's outdoor spaces more inclusive, ...
The five-year blueprint outlines 14 goals and 55 action steps, including making Pennsylvania's outdoor spaces more inclusive, accessible, and ready for the future ...
Fewer than three dozen people are still working to extinguish the Hammonds Rocks Fire and Thompson Hollow Fire, the DCNR said Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking to swap land with the Pa. DCNR at a popular trail and it's adding more property to the state game lands.
A DCNR comparison of campsite reservations in March 2024 compared with March 2025 shows a 37% increase in state parks in northeastern Pennsylvania, the largest in the state.
(WHTM)– Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor raised some concerns today about the department that oversees state parks and forests. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources… ...
A collage of Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor (PACast) and the DCNR logo. DeFoor released an audit of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) that showed it did not award all ...
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Dec. 21—WILKES-BARRE — The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) this week announced it will host more than 70 guided hikes in 46 state parks and one forest district on New ...
Nov. 22—WILKES-BARRE — Recent wet weather has decreased the risk of fire danger, but campers and visitors should still exercise care with fire outdoors. The Department of Conservation and Natural ...
The cause of the Huntingdon Pike Fire is still under investigation by the DCNR. Mirror Staff Writer Rachel Foor is at 814-946-7458.
Pennsylvania's ongoing drought, part of a larger nationwide weather pattern, prompted a ban on campfires at all state parks and forests.