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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…

Male bobolinks are among the showiest of grassland birds; their dramatic yellow, white, and black breeding plumage and distinctive call makes them a favorite of birding enthusiasts when they…

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…

Pine barrens are sparsely vegetated shrublands, woodlands, and semi-open forests found in the Northeastern United State on sandy xeric soils. Barrens are often referred to as pine barrens,…

There’s something about the angle of light on early spring days in Vermont, when the snow cover is almost gone, and the sun shines through the stark canopy right down to the forest…

Viiu Niiler of Marshfield, Vermont, is the consummate artist: a lifelong painter, glassmaker, tapestry weaver, fashion designer, gourmet cook, master gardener, and musician. Considered a kind…

Sitting on the passenger’s side floor of my pickup are three broken axes/mauls, all succumbed to the same fate by excited friends and neighbors who had “wooded” and snapped…

The moon not yet up, we forage in near darkness, out back in the woods, the wet spot to the north, where they grow in clumps, bunched like fists, and push their first wound heads through earth…

The short video above explains how to use a Buckthorn Blaster to control invasive plants. As our forests awaken from a long winter, some plants green-up sooner than others. While many of our…