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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…

Into the Woods with Jim Hayner

Jim Hayner is an Army veteran, a new dad, and a student at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks, where he’s majoring in ecological forest management. He’s also the veteran…

Exploring the Natural World with Molly and Pearl Aeberhard

Like students everywhere right now, Molly and Pearl Aeberhard of Kirby, Vermont, have transitioned from being in a classroom to learning at home. For the 10-year-old twins, remote learning has…

On the Tracking Trail with Pat Liddle

Pat Liddle lives in Canaan, New York, in the foothills between the Hudson River and the Taconic Mountains. She formed a connection with the woods as a child and developed an interest in the…

Heidi Murphy, at Work in the Woods

Fans of Animal Planet’s North Woods Law television series may recognize Lt. Heidi Murphy from the show, which follows New Hampshire Fish & Game conservation officers through various…

March Mink

Sandy Dannis shared this photo of a mink that she encountered while walking on her land in Dalton, New Hampshire. Mink aren't typically found up trees, but they're known to climb when…

Dave Brown Carves Bowls (and a Full Life) From the Forest

Dave Brown moved to Craftsbury, Vermont, in 1974 to take a teaching job at what is now Sterling College. He’d grown up near Salt Lake City, Utah, and in Texas, gone to college in…

COVID-19 Message to the Community

To our Northern Woodlands Community: In response to COVID-19, we have closed the Northern Woodlands office to visitors, and will be doing most of our work remotely for the next few weeks. Now…