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Every winter, as we plan the next Northern Woodlands Conference, we search out a few speakers who don’t, at first glance, have much to do with northeastern forests. These…

A landowner set up her game camera along a stream, and made the tactical error of telling her kids where it was located. Several hours after the first image was taken, a mother bear and two…

This is a grainy photo of an exceptional subject: a common nighthawk twisting in mid-air to capture an insect. The light conditions were poor; photographer Tig Tillinghast was only able to get…

Driving around in September, you see walls of firewood wedged between yard trees, covered with scrap metal and ready for battle. Porch racks are piled high, and in many rural towns, people are…

We recently received this photo for the August readers’ photo gallery, along with this explanation from Bonnie Honaberger: “I found this chrysalis on the ground, thus the straight…

Yesterday evening, a bat found its way into the Northern Woodlands building and flew into my office. It careened around the room for several revolutions and then (as far as I know) found its…

Sean Beckett, who will teach a photography workshop at this year’s Northern Woodlands Conference, shared this image of Sterling Falls near Stowe, Vermont. Sean is the Staff Naturalist at…

Recently, subscriber Diana Hayes encountered a group from the Vermont Loon Conservation Project at Quimby Camp in Averill, Vermont. Diana was pleased to see biologist Eric Hanson in this…

When she was young, Pam Wells aspired to be a forester. It was the late 1970s, and as she now wryly recalls, “I was not encouraged, as a woman.” So she directed her smarts and…

These photos were taken hours before a nest of yellow-bellied sapsuckers fledged. They were recorded 40 feet up in the canopy with a Canon full frame camera strapped to the top of a tree,…

I’ve been an editor here for 11 years, and one of the most challenging parts of the job is figuring out how to tell stories about scientific research. There’s a lot of good and…

If you've been out in a field recently, chances are you've seen spittle bugs' frothy homes. But have you ever peeked beneath the bubbles? These photos offer a macro view of the…

Recently, our family added a Brittany spaniel puppy. Her name is Pompy after the Ompompanoosuc River near our home, and true to the name, she’s a flood risk. 5 a.m. piddle emergencies…

The idea of “good” forestry can be hard for a layman like me to pin down, in part because it occupies a place on a sliding scale that gets adapted to different scenarios. If…

Carroll Stream flows clear and cold this time of year through the woods of northern New Hampshire, collecting the spring’s last snowmelt from the western slope of Cherry Mountain. Along…

Our previous photo blog showed male woodcocks at twilight, strutting on their “singing grounds” in between courtship flights. This new batch of images, shared by Dalton, New…

This past week, as I was sorting through submissions to our Readers Photo Gallery, I came upon this macro shot of springtails. These not-quite-insects (class Collembola) have an ancient…

A fox went out on a chilly night, and five kits followed her, tumbling out from their burrow and scampering up a wooded hill. She stood on full alert as she nursed them, and shook them off…

In our magazine’s spring issue, there’s an article describing forestry operations in Portland, Maine. Author Joe Rankin explores the unique considerations of cutting trees in a…

Now is prime woodcock courtship season – the males are performing their evening aerial displays above fields, town baseball diamonds, and other open spaces. They’re fun birds to…