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The founders of Northern Woodlands magazine, Stephen Long and Virginia Barlow, were recently honored with the 2011 Vermont’s Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. Long and…

It can be hard to summon the appropriate motivation to cut firewood in early July. In light of this, I keep a newspaper article taped to the refrigerator that highlights the billion-dollar…

Clouds – big suckers, with glorious mashed-potato tops and ominous sepia-toned bellies – trolled like battleships across Bahamian blue skies Wednesday afternoon. Back on earth,…

Before the Schwarzenegger sex scandal restored order to the media universe, national news coverage had been dominated by images and stories from the Mississippi Delta, where poor, rural…

Editor’s Note: This week’s blog features the musings of founding editor Ginny Barlow. I was on a lovely walk with Chris last fall, just meandering around on a sunny day, crisp leaves,…

Editor’s Note: This week’s blog features the musings of our Executive Director, Walter Medwid. The package of chestnut lumber arrived. Maybe a dozen pieces of various lengths, all in…

Day 2 Life accelerates as we get older, a phenomenon that most of us first notice as school kids, when summer vacations go from endless in elementary school to blink-your-eyes-and-it’s-done…

To be human is to be self-conscious, so it’s only natural that we wonder where we came from. Some people take this to extravagant lengths, forking over hundreds of dollars to get DNA…

I think the title’s a bit too shrill in this news piece about proposed maple syrup standards in Vermont, but I think the piece is well written and the topic is an interesting one.…

The State of Vermont has been holding public hearings on a proposed expansion of the state’s deer and moose hunting seasons this month, and most hunters who’ve attended these meetings have…