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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… -
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… -
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… -
Making Paper at the Old Groveton Mill
by Jamie Sayen | Spring 2018
Author and Northern Woodlands contributor Jamie Sayen recently released a new book entitled You Had a Job For Life, published by University Press of New… -
Outdoor Palette: Fritz Gross
by Adelaide Tyrol | Spring 2018
“A mistake is beside the point, for once anything happens, it authentically is.” John Cage I asked Fritz Gross if he experienced angst as an… -
Woodlot Pruning: Hardwoods and Softwoods
by Brett R. McLeod | Spring 2018
I recently walked a woodlot with a landowner who had pruned his younger trees according to instructions that he found online. The problem was that… -
Field Work: Crunching Data with Biometrician Ken Laustsen
by Joe Rankin | Spring 2018
A big-city reporter called one day wanting to know how many sugar maple trees there are in Maine – and how Maine compared to Vermont,… -
From the Center
by Elise Tillinghast | Spring 2018
Just about the time that this magazine reaches your mailbox, Northern Woodlands will be hopping the Connecticut River to take up residence in Lyme, New… -
Harvesting the Fruits of Time
by Michael J. Caduto | Spring 2018
A Primer on Apple Tree Release and Grafting Techniques In the early nineteenth century, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman sallied forth from Leominster, Massachusetts, to sell… -
Outdoor Palette: Nick Neddo
by Adelaide Tyrol | Winter 2017
What do bear fur, deliquescent mushrooms, wasp nests, antlers, and stones have in common? Yes, these things can all be found in the forests of… -
Tricks of the Trade: Rope Firewood Carrier
by Brett R. McLeod | Winter 2017
Several years ago I was traveling through the mountains of central Mexico and was impressed with a simple rope firewood carrier that virtually every rural…