The Nature Conservancy

Today, Pa. health insurers want to raise rates next year - but thousands of residents are already grappling with rising costs. And, we’ll learn about controlled burns in the latest News Voices.

We tend to think of fire as destructive and damaging, but on Moosic Mountain, sometimes it can be reviving. That’s what WVIA’s Kat Bolus learned on a recent trip to Eales Preserve in Lackawanna County, and she joins WVIA's Sarah Scinto this week to talk about it.

The Nature Conservancy recently held an educational day to discuss how prescribed burns help the ecosystem on Moosic Mountain in Lackawanna County.

Environmental News covers a lot of ground. Community News covers it all. January began with the shooting of a Scranton Police officer who made a miraculous recovery. In between, more trail projects began or continued. Community members pressed on to come up with innovative ideas and events, while solutions were sought for environmental issues.

A native Pennsylvania hardwood tree is facing extinction. Beech trees are being attacked by two separate diseases – one moves very slowly while the other is rapidly deteriorating the trees' population.

The Nature Conservancy Hauser Nature Center and Long Pond Preserve in the Poconos search for the butterflies to document them for the Monarch Watch Program.