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Outdoor Palette: Neil Riley
by Adelaide Tyrol | Winter 2018
En plein air is the French term for painting outdoors; it translates as “in the open air.” This method of painting became popular in the… -
Tricks of the Trade: Myths and Mistakes of Chainsaw Sharpening
by Brett R. McLeod | Winter 2018
Maintaining a sharp chainsaw chain not only makes for faster cutting, it also reduces wear and tear on the saw and the sawyer. Given those… -
Shadows on Craft and Culture: The Loss of Ash
by David Leff | Winter 2018
THE LOSS OF ASH IS FELT BEYOND THE FOREST With snow on the ground in mid-March, trees in Connecticut’s Naugatuck State Forest presented a dense… -
Backcountry Zones: Where Skis Meet Trees
by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Winter 2018
Once upon a time, skiers had to hike uphill for the exhilarating reward of gliding down through the trees. The earliest ski trails in New… -
Allure of the Moon
by Howard Norman | Winter 2018
My New Year’s resolution is to not allow political despair to affect the allure of the moon. Yesterday at about 4:30 in the afternoon, just… -
Horse Logging: It Took its Toll
by George Bellerose | Winter 2018
George Bellerose, a photojournalist from Weybridge, Vermont, has spent the last five years documenting the experiences of people who work in the forests of Addison… -
Esau Cant and the Gorbie
by Ross Caron | Winter 2018
The sound of the gray jay evokes an image of the deep North Woods: dark green spruce trees, spire-like balsam fir, and bare-branched tamaracks silhouetted… -
Tracking Tips: Snow Birds: Staying North for the Winter
by Susan C. Morse | Winter 2018
Temperatures may plunge to 50 degrees below zero on Nunavik Quebec’s Ungava peninsula. But there, at the northernmost edge of our northern woodlands, lives a… -
1,000 Words
by Roger Irwin | Winter 2018
Photographer Roger Irwin spends considerable time trekking around the Northeast, in all seasons and conditions and terrain, in search of wildlife. His journey to get… -
From the Center
by Elise Tillinghast | Winter 2018
Scene: A cold day at the Northern Woodlands office. Our heroine, a 40-something woman, sits at her desk, squinting at the computer screen. She’s reviewing… -
The Wood That Keeps Us Warm
by John Lazenby | Autumn 2018
Chaloux Brothers Firewood has been providing hardwood to central Vermonters since 1979. That adds up to a lot of firewood, probably more than 30,000 cords,… -
Tracking Tips: Wee Beasties Watch Out!
by Susan C. Morse | Autumn 2018
The familiar red fox is the most widely distributed carnivore on the planet. Throughout North America, I’ve admired these handsome animals in arctic Canada’s barrenlands,… -
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.… -
1,000 Words
by Dana Ceccarelli | Autumn 2018
Dana Ceccarelli photographed this bark-stripped log on the bank of the Wells River in Vermont last autumn. “It has been there for many years –… -
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,…