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Russ Cohen has been eating wild foods since he was a child. What started as casual family foraging outings developed into a full-fledged obsession in high school. After earning a…

John Fadden grew up within the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, which comprises bits of northern New York and southern Ontario and Quebec. In 1954, his parents, Ray and Christine Fadden, opened…

Patty Cormier spent much of her childhood in the Maine woods and has devoted her professional life to helping manage the state’s forests. She worked for 20 years as a District Forester…

Before he was an outdoor educator, Scott Ellis was a student of the woods and rivers. Now in his fourth year as the Outdoor Program Coordinator at Thetford Academy in Vermont, Ellis teaches a…

Connor Breton grew up in Somersworth, New Hampshire, and became enamored of the woods at a young age. He attended the University of New Hampshire, where he studied environmental science, then…

Jason Berard grew up in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. He and his wife moved from Boston to the Upper Valley two decades ago and have raised their three children – all now teenagers…

Lucienne Nicholson is many things: a mother, an immigrant, a hiker, an enthusiastic gardener, a beach lover, and a wholehearted admirer of nature and its power to heal. She is also the founder…

For Lisabeth Willey, it was turtle love at first sight, and she’s had a lifelong love affair with shelled reptiles. A conservation biologist and a professor at Antioch University New…

Bob Keller is a pilot with LightHawk, a non-profit that connects volunteer pilots with conservation organizations and uses aviation to enhance on-the-ground conservation work. Since 1994,…

To the Northern Woodlands community, As communicators, we recognize the importance of what stories we share, how stories are told, and who tells them. These editorial choices are ultimately…

Asher Brown grew up in Lyme, New Hampshire, just up the road from the current Northern Woodlands office. He’s worked as a ski patroller at the Middlebury Snow Bowl, on the Hut Croo for…

Ali Thomas is the Education Manager for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. In this role, she manages the state’s Green Mountain Conservation Camp (unfortunately canceled this…

Randy Kimball has logging in his blood. He grew up in Poland, Maine, in part on the log landing as his father worked the woods. He now works with his dad and is raising three sons with his…

Jim Hayner is an Army veteran, a new dad, and a student at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks, where he’s majoring in ecological forest management. He’s also the veteran…

Like students everywhere right now, Molly and Pearl Aeberhard of Kirby, Vermont, have transitioned from being in a classroom to learning at home. For the 10-year-old twins, remote learning has…

Pat Liddle lives in Canaan, New York, in the foothills between the Hudson River and the Taconic Mountains. She formed a connection with the woods as a child and developed an interest in the…

Fans of Animal Planet’s North Woods Law television series may recognize Lt. Heidi Murphy from the show, which follows New Hampshire Fish & Game conservation officers through various…

Sandy Dannis shared this photo of a mink that she encountered while walking on her land in Dalton, New Hampshire. Mink aren't typically found up trees, but they're known to climb when…

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…