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It’s just after sundown in the deep, evergreen forest of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve outside Albany, New York, a time when rarely seen creatures emerge from the shadows. Somewhere in…

As spring gives way to summer, the crescendo of birdsong in northern forests, shrublands, and fields begins to fade. Procreation replaces territory establishment and courtship, as the vital…

When my daughter was 2 years old, she and I would walk through the winter woods and she learned the trees by their bark. In the spring, she learned the birds by their calls. Throughout the…

Carrion is a great place to find insects, especially beetles and flies. Specific insects are attracted to dead animals as they decompose, with a predictable progression of visitors each…

A Cross-Border Collaboration Shows the Power of Mountain Biking to Make Small Towns More Resilient In 2005, Taylor Caswell got a call from a logger he had hired to work on the family’s…

A gray fox kit licks its mother after nursing. Photographer Lisa Lacasse spent three days in June watching this fox family in Quechee, Vermont, as the six kits chased each other and played…

With nine trail networks across northern New England and southern Quebec, Bike the Borderlands offers destination mountain biking – and the opportunity for local riders to hit the trails…

I recently had to have a birch tree removed from just outside my 115-year-old house in Maine. The foundation had shifted, causing the sewer pipes to partially collapse. The tree had to go so…

The pileated woodpecker has long been a mascot of Northern Woodlands, so when our staff decided to begin an annual tradition of commissioning a sticker by a northeastern artist, everyone…

My camera slung like a bandolier, I head out to hunt the hawk, the broad-winged sling-shotting his solitary note over the woods, the one I saw yesterday perched high in a white pine. I imagine…

There’s been considerable focus in recent years on enhancing bee habitat through meadow restoration and gardening with pollinator-friendly plants. But forests are also important to many…

For more than a century, biologists have utilized bird banding for studying avian migration, survivorship, longevity, and reproductive success. It’s an essential tool, but one with a…

While I was searching the drawers of the Saint Michael’s College insect collection, a spectacular little beetle caught my eye. The pearlescent elytra, or wing coverings, were marked with…

In the late 1990s, when my wife and I moved to New England from the sparse desert and jagged peaks of the Southwest, it took some time to adjust to the dense, green landscape of northern…

Ferns have been around for a mind-boggling 360 million years. That’s more than twice the time that dinosaurs reigned, and more than 1,800 times longer than modern humans have been…

Since 2002, when the first emerald ash borers (EAB) were identified in Michigan and Ontario, the glistening green beetles have spread rapidly, enjoying a mostly uncontested feast. The numbers…

Last year was a record-setting fire season out West, and national news stories about forests and fire were often tragic. However, Caren Caljouw, the prescribed fire program manager for the…