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Mainly nocturnal and amazingly well camouflaged, eastern screech-owls can be very difficult to spot. Weighing a mere 4 to 8 ounces, these short, stocky owls often roost in tree cavities.…

At the small-town middle school I attended, all students were required to take woodshop and home economics in 4th grade. I didn’t really take to sewing, but working with wood and…

In my home state of Vermont, annual Town Meeting Day takes place at the chilly edge of spring. Vermonters rightly take pride in the usual civility of these events. That said, early March can…

Leonardo da Vinci perfected the painting technique known as “Sfumato” – from the Italian sfumare, “to evaporate like smoke” – in the 16th century. This…

Years ago, I spent considerable time investigating factors that affected the distribution and abundance of snowshoe hares. That investigation was part of a larger project examining what…

The mystique of the Catamount Trail (CT) lured me to Vermont in the 1980s. I was living in Boston and had heard of the new 300-mile trail that traveled the length of the Green Mountains, from…

On a late winter afternoon in 1994, I accompanied Professor Jan Sykora, my thesis advisor, on a field trip to the Carnegie Museum’s Powdermill Nature Reserve in Pennsylvania’s…

It’s an unseasonably warm February morning in the northern Adirondacks. Just two weeks prior, temperatures had been in minus territory. Today, however, is a balmy 40 degrees, and the…

For Safer Communities and Benefits to Fish and Wildlife Throughout the Northeast, local, state, federal, and tribal agencies partner with communities and landowners to upgrade stream crossings…

In March 2021, upstate New York-based photographer Erika Bailey joined members of Paul Smith’s College Timber Harvesting Crew for a day to document their harvesting activities in a stand…

In 2016, a group of skiing enthusiasts in the White Mountains established the Granite Backcountry Alliance (GBA), with a mission to develop ski glades in collaboration with private landowners,…

Today’s forests must respond to a changing world, with stressors ranging from fragmentation and pollution to invasive pests and a shifting climate. One of the best things we can do to…

I don’t know how the snowmobiles make it up or down the short, steep hill at the edge of the cornfield that borders my driveway. But their tracks drop from the top of the hill into…

Using a bucking stanchion not only keeps the wood off the ground (and your chainsaw out of the dirt) but also allows you to cut multiple logs or slabs at once. The design I use is sized so…

Ten years ago, Pam Brown stood across the road from her house in Bethel, Vermont, and watched the rain fall on a field of tall, green corn. The bridge out of town had been closed, and she had…

The social nature of cave bats and their penchant for cold, humid wintering roosts make them particularly vulnerable to white-nosed syndrome (WNS), a disease caused by the Pseudogymnoascus…

Miles and miles of streams flow through northeastern forests, serving as habitat for fish, freshwater mussels, invertebrates, and other aquatic organisms. These waterways feed our rivers,…

An Interview with Lee Russell At a timber harvest site managed by Katahdin Forest Management along the Golden Road in Millinocket, Maine, photographer Ashley L. Conti caught up with logger and…