Back when Black Friday didn’t last the entire month of November, when there wasn’t 17 Santas ho-ho-ho-ing on every street corner in December, Christmas was different. At least ones I remember.

Nearly 100 miles from the nearest dirt road, Walker Lake is within an expanse of uninhabited tundra, scraggly boreal forests and the seemingly endless peaks of the Brooks Range in a wilderness ...

Sure, the scraggly pine looks a little like a sad Charlie Brown Christmas tree, despite tying on multiple branches to make it look bushier. And you won’t get that evergreen Douglas fir smell ...

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When Charlie finds a scraggly little Christmas tree, he immediately identifies with that arboreal underdog. ”I think it needs me,” he says. But when he brings the tree to the rehearsal ...

A common grackle in flight over a field of cattails. - Wirestock/Getty It might sound strange to hear that a once-common bird is experiencing a decline, but that is what is happening with the ...

It might sound strange to hear that a once-common bird is experiencing a decline, but that is what is happening with the common grackle. This iridescent blackbird species, once numbering around 150 ...

Lucy also assigns him the task of finding the perfect Christmas tree — a quest that leads him to a small, scraggly tree that stands in stark contrast to the bright and shiny trees preferred by ...

Okay, I just made that up but I think it works. We get massive flocks of Common Grackles coming through our woods in the fall and winter and usually their flight is accompanied by a muttering that, ...

Many adoring fans have dubbed the scraggly brown bear "Duffy of the Western suburbs", after his perceived resemblance to Duffy, Mickey Mouse's teddy bear, The Paper reported. Image from 莉莉 ...

Approximately 18 inches in length. Wingspan of 18.9 inches. Grackles are typically found in urban areas, feedlots and croplands. They can also be found in marshy wetlands. Great-tailed grackles are ...

Approximately 11 to 13.4 inches in length. Wingspan of 14.2 to 18.1 inches. Common grackles are found in wetlands, hedgerows, fields, wet meadows, riparian woodlands, woodland edges, shrubby urban and ...