Before he was an outdoor educator, Scott Ellis was a student of the woods and rivers. Now in his fourth year as the Outdoor Program Coordinator at Thetford Academy in Vermont, Ellis teaches a…
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Into the Great North Woods with Connor Breton
Connor Breton grew up in Somersworth, New Hampshire, and became enamored of the woods at a young age. He attended the University of New Hampshire, where he studied environmental science, then…
Stewarding Natural and Recreational Resources with Jason Berard
Jason Berard grew up in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. He and his wife moved from Boston to the Upper Valley two decades ago and have raised their three children – all now teenagers…
Lucienne Nicholson Fosters Diversity in the Woods
Lucienne Nicholson is many things: a mother, an immigrant, a hiker, an enthusiastic gardener, a beach lover, and a wholehearted admirer of nature and its power to heal. She is also the founder…
Lisabeth Willey Works for the Turtles
For Lisabeth Willey, it was turtle love at first sight, and she’s had a lifelong love affair with shelled reptiles. A conservation biologist and a professor at Antioch University New…
A Bird’s-eye View with Bob Keller
Bob Keller is a pilot with LightHawk, a non-profit that connects volunteer pilots with conservation organizations and uses aviation to enhance on-the-ground conservation work. Since 1994,…
Community Message
To the Northern Woodlands community, As communicators, we recognize the importance of what stories we share, how stories are told, and who tells them. These editorial choices are ultimately…
Storytelling with Filmmaker Asher Brown
Asher Brown grew up in Lyme, New Hampshire, just up the road from the current Northern Woodlands office. He’s worked as a ski patroller at the Middlebury Snow Bowl, on the Hut Croo for…
Ali Thomas Invites People of All Cultures into Vermont’s Outdoors
Ali Thomas is the Education Manager for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. In this role, she manages the state’s Green Mountain Conservation Camp (unfortunately canceled this…
Randy Kimball Stays True to his Logging Roots
Randy Kimball has logging in his blood. He grew up in Poland, Maine, in part on the log landing as his father worked the woods. He now works with his dad and is raising three sons with his…