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The Outside Story
The Outside Story is a series of weekly ecology articles that has been appearing in newspapers across New Hampshire and Vermont since 2002. The series is underwritten by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Upper Valley Region and edited by Dirk Van Susteren at Northern Woodlands. To suggest a topic for a future article, inquire about writing for the series, or learn how to bring the series to your local paper, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 
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To search the Outside Story archive, type your query into the search box in the top-left corner of this page, followed by ‘site:northernwoodlands.org/outside_story’. For example, “bumblebee site:northernwoodlands.org/outside_story”. This will restrict your search just to the Outside Story portion of our website.
Some of our favorite articles from the first four years of the series have been collected in The Outside Story - local writers explore the nature of New Hampshire and Vermont, available in the Northern Woodlands online shop and at bookstores across the region.
“This is the finest, and most timeless, almanac I’ve ever seen. For those of us who cohabit northern New England with the bear and the grosbeak and the trillium, it is the single easiest (and most charming) introduction to our neighbors, to our place, and to the passage of time that’s yet been written.” - Bill McKibben
Latest Newspaper Article
Avoiding Rash Decisions
“Plants are in the business of making themselves inedible,” says Tom Vogelmann, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont. Being unable to run and hide from predators, they’ve spent millions of years figuring out other ways to fight back. Some have developed armor – tree bark, for instance, or thorns. Others employ more advanced chemical defense systems. These chemical… (more)