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Chipmunks and Truffles - A Recipe for a Healthy Forest
by John A. Litvaitis | Autumn 2018
While on an afternoon hike last fall, I sat down at the base of a large tree to take in what might be going unnoticed.… -
From the Center
by Elise Tillinghast | Autumn 2018
Now is a favorite time for family campfires up on our hill. The cricket chirps are slowing, the asters are feeding the last of the… -
Editor’s Note
by Dave Mance III | Summer 2018
“It’s like loving someone with a terminal disease,” she said, her long, thin fingers brushing the tree’s rivulet bark. Our daughter’s in a front pack… -
Outdoor Palette: Robert O’Brien
by Adelaide Tyrol | Summer 2018
"Light is the most important person in the picture." Claude Monet, 1840-1926 founder of French Impressionism For the painter Claude Monet, the effects of light… -
Field Work: At Work Generating Power With Betsy Lesnikoski
by Patrick White | Summer 2018
Betsy Lesnikoski loved being outdoors as a child in Connecticut in the 1970s, but given her suburban surroundings, she wasn’t sure how to turn that… -
Trout Fishing on the Cultural Divide
by Tim Traver | Summer 2018
Ethan Pond, a small pond high in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is not only where a trout-fishing addiction began for me, but it’s… -
Seeing the Climate Through the Trees
by Joe Rankin | Summer 2018
Forests are complex systems. The Earth’s climate is a complex system. When you put them together, you get something even more complex. Complexity upon complexity,… -
How Did the Moose Cross the Road? Reconnecting a Broken Landscape
by Susan Shea | Summer 2018
Jens Hilke, a conservation planning biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, stood beside his colleague, James Brady, a biologist with the Vermont Agency… -
Grave Diggers of the Insect World
by Rod Vallee | Summer 2018
A regular chore of mine is to dispose of the mice and moles trapped in our home. I place them on a 4 x 5-foot… -
Grazing in the Woods: Bringing Silvopatures to the Northeast
by Hallie Metzger | Summer 2018
His assignment was to train gauchos to be loggers. That’s what the Peace Corps hoped Brett Chedzoy would accomplish in Argentina in the 1990s. “I… -
Blood Sisters
by Jennifer Wise | Summer 2018
Walking in the New Hampshire woods, I mark my trail with eau de DEET. Chickadees twitter judgmentally in the hemlocks: “She’s wearing the CDC-recommended, permethrin-impregnated… -
Tracking Tips: Summer’s Other Nest Builders
by Susan C. Morse | Summer 2018
By late May, we are cheered by the melodious songs of birds – birds which, at this time of year, are busy building nests, guarding… -
1,000 Words
by Jim Block | Summer 2018
Photographer Jim Block got this striking shot of an American bittern thanks to a bit of serendipity. “During a group hike on the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway… -
From the Center
by Elise Tillinghast | Summer 2018
Recently, I mused to a colleague that I wished we had tables sized for our new meeting room. We’re starting to implement an ambitious three-year… -
A Hayfield Home for Northern Pike and Wild Trout
by Tom Rogers | Spring 2018
On the western side of Vermont, the Otter Creek wanders leisurely through hayfields before easing into Lake Champlain. Wildlife abounds, with shore-nesting bald eagles and… -
Floodplain Forests: Resurgence of a Long Lost Ecosystem
by Tim McKay | Spring 2018
The canoe scraped noisily onto the gravel bar on the point of one of the great bends in the northern Connecticut River. I’ve stopped to… -
Saving the Wood Turtle
by John Litvaitis | Spring 2018
Growing up, I spent many summer afternoons along the banks of a local canal snatching painted turtles as they basked on fallen logs. For many… -
1,000 Words
by Kent McFarland | Spring 2018
“While birdwatching one sunny April morning in the famed Sapsucker Woods at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, I crossed a footbridge on a trail and… -
Tracking Tips: Sign of Wee Beasties in Spring
by Susan C. Morse | Spring 2018
On winter outings in snow, we often see the minute trotting tracks of meadow voles and the bounding track-sets of white-footed mice and deer mice.… -
The Herbs Around Us
by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Spring 2018
As a longtime resident of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, Holly Hayward has an intimate knowledge of the landscape here. And she comes from a long…