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Every autumn, North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont hosts a banding station for migrating northern saw-whet owls, a common but seldom-seen woodland species. Tig Tillinghast…

Forests and rivers are inseparable in my mind. When I worked on the Penobscot River Restoration Project in Maine from 2005 to 2015, I became familiar with how this particular river changes its…

I’ve been spending many weekend hours up on our hill, cutting down stands of invasive honeysuckle. I use a hand saw and work slowly, stopping every time I hear the approaching chime of a…

For more than 200 years, dams built on waterways up and down the East Coast helped to move and sort timber, power sawmills and gristmills, and produce hydroelectric power. These dams shut off…

Bill Gould, a member of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, and Reid Schwarz, a woodworker and toolmaker, launched their first birchbark canoe onto local waters in New Hampshire in…

During World War II, all across the country, women stepped in to fill jobs traditionally performed by the men who had gone to war. One of these women was Virginia Pearson, who in the summer of…

Dale Brooks says it was Sonny Congdon who taught him how to saw, and so John Rozensky would have helped teach him as well because Sonny and John were working together at that time running…

I climbed the heavy miles of rock hot through the forest up to the gravel avenue through the krummholz, the heat now descending to cooled tundra paved with tiny wildflowers yellow and white…

For me, the challenges of the pandemic have had a silver lining, directly in my sightline. I have stayed home and kept a journal. Daily, I have re-engaged slow fun, the spin of the planet from…

For foresters in the Northeast, spring means mud season. In addition to making timber harvesting more difficult, operating heavy equipment during mud season can be detrimental to soil and tree…

While hiking with my son on Snake Mountain in Addison County, Vermont, I noticed a rather impressive millipede on the trail. When I think “millipede,” I usually think about small,…

It must have felt like summiting a mountain, exhaustion and jubilation at war with each other, only to discover that, well, actually this isn’t the summit yet – and now you have…

As late spring transitions to summer, we typically think of our northern woodlands as bursting with abundant life. But for bears, June into early July is actually a very lean time of year.…

Norway Pond is not like the other ponds and lakes scattered around my small New Hampshire community. Those other waterbodies are pristine, with clear, deep water and long, wild stretches…

In 2017, Inland Woods + Trails joined Bike the Borderlands, a collaborative of eight mountain bike organizations located in three states and two countries. The group promotes mountain biking…

Weaving a Northern Forest Ethic The earth beneath our feet grounds us, its contours orient us, its waterways guide us. The land is foundational for us all, but the ways we move through and…

“There’s no finer place to be on a hot day than in water, but I quickly tire of swimming, so recently, I began bringing an underwater camera to the lakes and rivers near my…

Our forests provide us myriad benefits, but none more critical to life than the way they interact with water. Trees collect and absorb water through branches, leaves, and roots, and then…

This has been a year for walking. With the Covid-19 restrictions that science, precaution, and fear have engendered, many of us have found solace in the great outdoors. Mountain trails,…

The summer before I started here at Northern Woodlands, my daughter asked to visit Norwich for her 16th birthday. On that day we hiked Giles Mountain and climbed the fire tower to look over a…