What a summer it was for the pollinator garden in its second year! Growth was vigorous, and blooms were abundant – drawing a constant hum of life from bees, butterflies, birds, and…
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October 21st 2025
Young Naturalists: Theo Ostman-Sofocli and Yonatan Axelrad
Theo Ostman-Sofocli and Yonatan Axelrad are seventh graders living outside Hartford, Connecticut. They are enthusiastic naturalists and volunteer at Roaring Brook Nature Center, where they…
October 8th 2025
Documenting Natural History with David Gregg
David Gregg is the director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS). David first discovered his love for natural history as an insect aficionado, then as an archeologist and…
October 6th 2025
Northern Woodlands Editor Earns National Award from Society of American Foresters
Lyme, NH – The Center for Northern Woodlands Education (CNWE) board of directors is delighted to announce that Editor Meghan McCarthy McPhaul has been awarded the Society of American…
September 23rd 2025
Cartoons & Underappreciated Creatures with Rosemary Mosco
Rosemary Mosco is a science communicator, cartoonist, and naturalist. She creates the Bird and Moon comic series, publishes cartoons in Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine,…
September 11th 2025
Digging into the Precolonial Past with Paul Pouliot
Paul Pouliot is the Sag8mo, or the principal male speaker, for the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, headquartered in Alton, New Hampshire. His wife and research partner Denise…
August 27th 2025
Native Plants at Work: Attracting Summer Visitors
The garden is attracting so much life! Each day brings new or familiar visitors – monarchs drifting among the flowers, hummingbirds flashing past, bees and wasps at work, and tree frogs…
August 27th 2025
Fire Ecology with Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher is a research ecologist and the lead scientist at the U.S. Forest Service’s Silas Little Experimental Forest in the New Jersey pine barrens. Mike has turned his lifelong…
August 12th 2025
Seeing the Forest for the Bees with Kass Urban-Mead
Kass Urban-Mead is a pollinator conservation specialist, NRCS partner biologist, and the forests and forestry lead at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. After working as the…
July 22nd 2025
Multigenerational Forestry with Jeff Ward
Jeff Ward is a scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. He began his career there in 1987, after completing a PhD in forest ecology from Purdue University. Jeff’s…