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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…

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…

Joshua Morse has spent the better part of the last decade studying the outdoors, the environment, and some of the things that live in the woods. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and a…

For the past several years, we’ve included a quiz with our nonprofit’s autumn fundraising appeal, based on articles in the magazine, essays in The Outside Story series, and content…

Reader Asheley Cole sent us a photograph of a January scene on the Green River near her home. Intrigued, we asked her for more images, and she shared this series, showing the river in…

Art Krueger and his wife Trish Norton have been making and selling maple syrup from their Krueger-Norton Sugarhouse in Shrewsbury, Vermont, for more than three decades. By Vermont standards,…

Geoff Dennis lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island, where he makes a living as a commercial fisherman. He’s also an avid photographer and birder, two hobbies that converged in 1995, when…

Jewelry artist Lucy Golden became immersed in the outdoors at a young age. She and her two sisters spent their childhood roaming the woods and fields of Pennsylvania, where her father was a…

This whiplash weather we’ve been experiencing has made for some treacherous walking conditions up in our woods. A recent snow and thaw cycle produced layers of ice and powder –…

Pam Ames has been an educator for more than 30 years, the last 13 of them at Killingly Intermediate School in northeastern Connecticut, where she teaches seventh grade science. She brings to…