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It’s my pleasure to tell you about a special honor bestowed by the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on the founders of Northern Woodlands. Steve Long and Ginny Barlow received…

Moosehead Lake is one of Maine’s natural treasures. Ever since Plum Creek, the Moosehead area’s largest landowner, unveiled its long-term plan for its holdings around the lake, arguments…

If you’re in a fishing boat on Lake Champlain, the boundary between New York and Vermont can seem quite blurry, so blurry that fishermen from either state can fish anywhere on the lake…

We left camp just before daylight. The air was thick with mist as we made our plans to hunt the ridge where Chuck had jumped a nice buck at the end of the day before. Our topo maps showed that…

The prices reported here are those that log buyers—mostly sawmills and wholesalers—are paying for logs. Because these are prices paid for delivered wood, landowners need to adjust…

Tree roots are inscrutable. While their importance to the aboveground parts of trees and forests is well appreciated by forest scientists, tree roots have always been notoriously difficult to…

We’ve all seen it before: hidden in a thicket is a lone apple tree that hasn’t made more than a bushel of apples in the past 10 years. We know the deer, bears, turkeys, and…

The bark of older and larger white pines is crusty and ridged, but before that, in youth and adolescence, a pine’s bark is smooth, interrupted only by whorled branches, and is usually a…

During the most recent ice age, the Great Plains were part of a white spruce forest that existed in a broad, transcontinental band south of the tundra, which in turn extended north to the…

In the kitchen cabinet trade, hard maple is king these days. Also widely used for flooring and trim, hard maple is highly valued for its durability and light-colored sapwood. As Dave Clements…

I own 110 acres of northern hardwoods in a valley west of Mount Mansfield in northern Vermont. There are no oaks in my area, so when I built my home in 1978, I planted six red oaks around the…

The prices reported here are those that log buyers—mostly sawmills and wholesalers—are paying for logs. Because these are prices paid for delivered wood, landowners need to adjust…

Aldo Leopold wrote, “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” I am definitely among the latter. It refreshes my soul to see wild animals up close and…

Can you name the three most heavily forested states in the United States? The answer might surprise you: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, in that order. All three are 80 percent or more…

At the end of this column in the last issue, we reported that we had subscribers in 48 states, and that in order to make it a perfect 50, all we needed were subscribers from Louisiana and…

On warm days in September and October, puzzling specks of wool are sometimes seen sailing along on the breeze. Some of these fuzzballs might be woolly alder aphids, insects that have been…

The large, deep green, lustrous leaves of black walnut give the tree a luxuriant appearance that is more suited to the tropics than to our clime, where, typically, trees are far more…

Sapwood is the living, outermost portion of a woody stem or branch, while heartwood is the dead, inner wood, which often comprises the majority of a stem’s cross-section. You can usually…

Global warming threatens to profoundly alter our forests, yet forests can also play a vital role in protecting the climate. If strategies for combating climate change, such as the Regional…

Just as there is no grandchild who is not talented, clever, beautiful, and charming, the land that each of us calls home is never ordinary. After Mary and I bought our land nearly 20 years…