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From Massachusetts to Florida, the Olympic Peninsula to the Smoky Mountains to New Hampshire, Dawn Dextraze has lived in many places. Wherever she goes, she maintains a strong connection to…

Like many Vermonters, Hayden Lake spent a lot of time in the woods while he was growing up. Those experiences eventually led to a career as a consulting forester. Last year he took a break…

Joe and Lisa McSwain are of an age when they might think of retiring, but a life of leisure doesn’t appeal to them. A few years ago, they sold the steeplejack company they’d run…

Steve Denette has rock climbed in Yosemite, sea kayaked along the coast of Maine and canoed the state’s inland lakes and rivers, and completed countless traverses in the White Mountains…

In the midst of the pandemic, Deana Tempest Thomas left her work in healthcare, purchased her childhood home in North Scituate, Rhode Island, and hatched a plan to create a small farm there.…

Walt Cottrell has worked as a wildlife biologist, a domestic animal veterinarian, and since 2005 as a wildlife veterinarian in various locations around the Northeast. Although much of his…

Born in Newport, Vermont, raised in Irasburg, and having lived much of her adult life in Albany, Colleen Goodridge considers herself “a product of the Kingdom.” For the…

Bill Novacek’s first job out of high school was at a sawmill in the Berkshires. In 1981, he moved north to Coos County in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where his connection to…

Jen Plowden grew up in the open spaces of western Maine, along its border with New Hampshire. She helped her father log with horses, explored the fields and forests with her siblings, and…

Michael Wojtech remembers being enthralled by the natural world from a young age. But it wasn’t until well into adulthood that he became fascinated, in particular, by trees. A decade…