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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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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
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Beware of Encroaching Forests
Last month, while taking advantage of the open winter to cut brush around the edges of our pasture, I thought back to one of my favorite lectures in college. The professor was a Maine native teaching a course on New England history. Leaning sternly over the podium, he warned us students about the dangers of living in the woods. He… (more)