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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Things are always changing in the Northern Woodlands Pollinator Garden, and we love watching the season unfold. These photos capture some recent bursts of life and color, as well as a few new…

Marcus Rosten is the director of Western New York Wildway, an initiative from Western New York Land Conservancy with the mission of connecting conservation land throughout the western part of…

Scudder Parker has lived in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for more than 70 years. He was a Protestant minister for two decades, a state senator for eight years, and a candidate for…

Welcome to another season in our pollinator garden! This spring has brought fresh blooms, eager visitors, and a few improvements to help the garden thrive – including a new stone border…

Lee Kantar is the moose biologist for Maine and has been with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife since 2005. In 2019, Lee was award with the Distinguished Moose Biologist Award at…

Laura Waterman is a rock climber, an advocate for wild places, and a writer. She founded The Waterman Fund, after losing her husband, writer and mountaineer Guy Waterman, to continue their…

Noah Charney is an assistant professor of conservation biology at University of Maine, where his research includes spatial ecology and unisexual salamanders. His first book, Tracks and Sign of…

Ramona Peters is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, who have called the land that is now eastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island home for more than 12,000 years. She is the…

Bridget Butler is a naturalist, conservationist, and birder in northern Vermont. With decades of experience in conservation and education, she now serves as the executive director of Friends…

Sydney Lea is a novelist, naturalist, editor, poet, and former professor. He was Vermont’s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015 and a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Among…

Ryan Trapani is the director of the Catskill Forest Association (CFA), a nonprofit which provides forest services and education to 1,100 members. He has worked in forestry and forest…

Melody Starya Mobley was the first Black female forester hired by the U.S. Forest Service, where she worked for 28 years. She was also the first Black woman to graduate with a B.S. in forest…

Ted Levin is a zoologist, photographer, and award-winning author. His essays have appeared in publications including Audubon, The New York Times, Sierra, and Sports Illustrated. He is the…

Alicia Daniel is a naturalist and educator in Burlington, Vermont. She is the founder and director of Vermont Master Naturalist, has taught at the University of Vermont in the Field Naturalist…

Heath Bunnell has worked in the woods since he was a kid, stacking wood and tagging along with his father and grandfather, although as a young man, he briefly lived in Alaska, working longline…