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After the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 devastated forests throughout the region, fallen logs were salvaged and sometimes stored in ponds and other wetlands, where immersion in water has…

I recently took a drive along Vermont’s Otter Creek in order to see part of the land-scape explored by photographer Caleb Kenna for his feature in this issue. I didn’t have a…

The Charlestown Navy Yard has been a fixture of the Boston Harbor shoreline for more than 200 years. Until its closure in 1974, the Navy Yard was a city-within-a-city, with facilities…

Last September, while kayaking up the Connecticut River, I passed a monarch butterfly heading in the opposite direction. I turned my boat and watched it go, a flickering spot of blaze orange,…

Carpenter and writer Adam Miller recently completed the timber framing portion of a barn that is undergoing renovation in Lyme, New Hampshire. The project is part of a small senior housing…

Native butternut, Juglans cinerea, is steadily disappearing from the woods of North America due to butternut canker, a non-native fungus (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) that was…

Poecile atricapillus Winking The wanderer Wonders over my work As I split oak and he in song Marks time. Strix varia Child who Innocence calls Sagelike to the moonlight, Night’s huntsmen…

Legendary Connecticut State Forester Austin Hawes called it “the most perfect mixture of the northern and southern New England forest types” he had ever seen. The Carrington Phelps…

For many people, home is not one spot on the landscape, it can be many places. In A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, archaeologist Robert Goodby, a professor of…

Manic whistles rose from the woods at the edge of the lawn. The hair prickled along the back of my neck as I pressed my face to the cool porch screen and peered into the dark.…

Hillary Waters Fayle is a Virginia-based textile artist known for her delicate botanical constructs. Working with found leaves and rudimentary tools – needle and thread, and Exacto…

In the Spring 2022 issue, we tackled the task of removing a broken axe handle from the eye of an axe or maul. Now we’ll begin the process of hanging (or hafting) the axe. 1. Fit the eye.…

While I was photographing pollinators on a patch of meadow near a bike path, a bumblebee caught my attention. It appeared to have an enormous, clubbed antenna, as well as a normal-size one.…

Legacy trees are trees of an older generation that persist in a younger forest. The ecological benefits of legacy trees are many. Their complex bark provides habitat for mosses and lichens,…

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome – Emily Dickinson A bobolink circled…

In the mid-1990s, bird-watchers near Washington, DC, began to notice something alarming. House finches at their feeders appeared to be sick, with red, swollen, watery, or crusty eyes. Some…