Behind the Pages

This past August, Northern Woodlands staff toured Dartmouth Printing Company (DPC) in Hanover, New Hampshire. DPC has printed every issue of Northern Woodlands since the magazine began as Vermont Woodlands, in 1994. The printer has around 160 employees, and an estimated 48 work on any given issue of the magazine. Pictured here are, left to right, Bill Wardwell, plant manager; Tina Pringle, client services manager; and Tim Gates, account manager. The machine in the background is their Muller-Martini Corona 24 pocket perfect binder. Photo by Jackson Saul.

Approximately 50 people contribute to the words and images in each issue of the magazine, and still more provide support for the publication process. Here are some of our Winter 2024 contributors.

From left: Russ Cohen, Judy Chaves, Colby Galliher, and Phyl Newbeck.

Russ Cohen (Foraging, page 31) served as the Rivers Advocate for the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Ecological Restoration until his retirement in 2015. He leads dozens of wild edibles–themed walks each year and has set up a small nursery in Weston, Massachusetts, where he propagates native plants from seed and shares the plants with land trusts, schools, tribes, and other public- and private-sector organizations. Click here to learn more about his work. Photo by Dick Miller.

Judy Chaves (A Place in Mind, page 80) has written for Northern Woodlands since 1998, and her article in the Summer 2014 issue was the precursor to her guidebook to Vermont’s first state park, Secrets of Mount Philo, available through the Vermont Historical Society. A former cello teacher, she holds an MS in botany and an MFA in creative writing, lives in North Ferrisburgh Hollow, Vermont, and is happiest when in or alongside a lake or on the summit of a mountain. Photo by Kit Anderson.

Colby Galliher (“The Quest to Save the Fastest-Declining Landbird in North America,” page 56) writes about conservation, wildlife, and environmental policy. He started his career as a researcher and analyst at a public policy think tank in Washington, DC. In that role and others, he has written a book chapter, scholarly reports, and articles for local and regional publications. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals. Photo by Colby Galliher.

Phyl Newbeck (contributing photographer for “Rescuing Iced-In Loons,” page 40 and web extra) is a freelance writer based in Jericho, Vermont, and the author of Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers: Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving. She is an avid nature photographer and a member of the board of the Jericho Underhill Land Trust. Whenever she hears a loon calling, she’s convinced it’s one that she helped rescue, saying thank you. Photo by Jean Kissner.