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Photographer Frank Kaczmarek photographed this female lo moth in North Woodstock, New Hampshire. These giant silkworm moths never feed in their adult form, which lasts 3 to 6 days on average.…

Judged by the contents of its clutter, my desk is not a particularly happy place. You can picture my computer monitor gasping for air amidst a pile of papers that amount to a sea of bad news.…

Northern Woodlands received many generous contributions in 2010, but one in particular stands out. One of the members of our board of advisors (who wishes to remain anonymous) provided a…

As the snow piles up and the temperatures head south outside our office in beautiful “downtown” Corinth, I want to take this opportunity to say thank you on behalf of the board and staff…

So you’re planning on doing a crop tree release or a sugarbush thinning this winter. Or perhaps you want to pull firewood out to a landing with your tractor winch, but you’re worried about…

By the time you read this, summer will have long ago become a fish story - just a memory in a Polaroid that was “this hot” (spread your arms apart) and went by “this…

As the Executive Director of this organization, I meet a lot of people who benefit from our work. At a recent meeting, a new acquaintance shared with me that our autumn story on woodcock had…

A forester cannot properly describe a tree without terms like “crown” and “trunk.” A hunter can’t boast of a champion white-tailed buck without discussing the finer points of its…

There’s never been a summer school quite like this one. Instead of cinderblock walls, picture an outdoor classroom where towering white pines overlook a beautiful lake. Instead of bookbags…

Silvics of North America, a weighty two-volume book published by the U.S. Forest Service, describes the life histories and management recommendations for all the important trees in this…

There was no saving Herbie, at least not literally, not after its caretaker saw the unmistakable spread of Dutch elm disease in the upper reaches of its crown. Frank Knight – he’s 101…

The ladybeetle family includes many cute and shiny beetles – they’re usually bright orange or red, with some black and white thrown in for contrast. As a group, they specialize in…

Bill Schmidt, of Elysian Hills Tree Farm in southeastern Vermont, says his current deer problem is not as bad as it was twenty years ago. Back then, the deer had a habit of congregating in his…

The nineteenth-century English bodger is a romantic figure in woodturning lore. Members of that extinct breed made their living in the hilly beech forests north of London. They felled trees,…

Almost 100 years ago, Dr. Edward H. Risley, a Boston doctor and registered Maine guide, left the city for a January journey to his “Leetle Cabain,” a oneroom camp in Maine’s…

Photographer Erik Gehring captured this otherworldly image just after sunrise on top of Mount Zealand in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Gehring calls the piece Frozen Krummholz -…

Those dead, bleached-brown beech and oak leaves rattling in a January wind – but somehow still clinging to their twigs – are symbolic. Like ecological pennants, they announce that…

In light of the down economy, Vermont, like many states in our region, is looking for ways to reduce its annual budget. Last year, the legislature attempted to take $1.6 million from the Use…

The ancient Celts spoke of “thin places” in nature – places where the veil between heaven and earth is worn thin. To those with Thomas Cole taste, “thin” could be…

Deep in our deepest nature is the environment we knew as a child, so that when we meet it later in life, we know we are home. Such is my feeling for the part of rural Vermont where I live.…