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For the past several years, we’ve included a multiple choice quiz as part of our nonprofit’s autumn fundraising appeal, posing questions that are based on recent articles in…

Peter Pfeiffer has been working in the Maine woods with a chainsaw since 1974, often on his 113-acre woodlot in Solon, where he lives off the grid, relying on solar and wind power for…

Sebastian Moreno has always been interested in nature, but it wasn’t until near the end of his undergraduate studies that he realized wildlife was something he could not only study, but…

A resident of Boston’s South End, Carolyn Lowell is a former high school math teacher now working toward a master’s degree in architecture from the Massachusetts College of Art and…

Rachel Dandeneau is a professor of environmental science at White Mountains Community College in Berlin, New Hampshire, not far from where she grew up. She also chairs WMCC’s STEM and…

Polly Mahoney is a registered Master Maine Guide and the co-founder – with partner Kevin Slater – of Mahoosuc Guide Service, based in Newry, Maine. Since 1990, the pair has been…

Fourteen-year-old Coen Mullins has loved spending time outside for as long as he can remember. His parents had him on skis when he was a toddler, sliding around their yard in Morrisville,…

As the Chittenden County Forester, Ethan Tapper works with landowners in Vermont’s most populous county. For Tapper, this work is as much about engaging the community as it is about…

Jeanette Fournier spent much of her childhood in the woods around her home in Littleton, New Hampshire, or filling notebooks with drawings and sketches. Throughout a career in the corporate…

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…