“Notorious” Devil’s Pool? The most beloved place in the Wissahickon may suffer abuse and indignity every summer, but they are no match for its beauty and physiologic significance. Brad Maule defends the natural landmark

Today is Earth Day and Bradley Maule has a bone to pick with Philadelphia. He just spent 52 weeks picking up our litter in the Wissahickon Valley and his collection isn’t pretty. His evocative environmental art installation, One Man’s Trash, opens today, April 22nd, at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center. HC co-editors Michael Bixler and Maule caught up to get into some trash talk.

All across the Northeast, a relatively mild summer has produced some of the most vibrant fall foliage in years. That’s all the excuse Brad Maule needed to immerse himself with camera in the Wissahickon woods for the past month

What explains the power of place, of Fairmount Park especially, to give meaning to our lives? Nathaniel Popkin on three writers drawn to the park, including the great poet Stephen Berg, who died 12 days ago

Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park system grew by six acres on Saturday with the dedication of the Wissahickon East parcel in East Mt. Airy. Elected officials and park commissioners cut a ribbon to make it official, and volunteers staged a three-hour cleanup to get the park off on the good foot

While hiking alone yesterday in the Wissahickon, Brad Maule encountered two dogs running off-leash, and they didn’t respond well to his trash grabbing apparatus