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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…

Joshua Morse has spent the better part of the last decade studying the outdoors, the environment, and some of the things that live in the woods. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and a…

For the past several years, we’ve included a quiz with our nonprofit’s autumn fundraising appeal, based on articles in the magazine, essays in The Outside Story series, and content…

Reader Asheley Cole sent us a photograph of a January scene on the Green River near her home. Intrigued, we asked her for more images, and she shared this series, showing the river in…

Art Krueger and his wife Trish Norton have been making and selling maple syrup from their Krueger-Norton Sugarhouse in Shrewsbury, Vermont, for more than three decades. By Vermont standards,…

Geoff Dennis lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island, where he makes a living as a commercial fisherman. He’s also an avid photographer and birder, two hobbies that converged in 1995, when…

Jewelry artist Lucy Golden became immersed in the outdoors at a young age. She and her two sisters spent their childhood roaming the woods and fields of Pennsylvania, where her father was a…

This whiplash weather we’ve been experiencing has made for some treacherous walking conditions up in our woods. A recent snow and thaw cycle produced layers of ice and powder –…

Pam Ames has been an educator for more than 30 years, the last 13 of them at Killingly Intermediate School in northeastern Connecticut, where she teaches seventh grade science. She brings to…

Back in the old days, there were printed field guides. The more comprehensive the guide, the heavier it was to lug around the woods. People left them at home. When they were out in the woods…

In winter, raccoons will sometimes take on roommates. Shared space means shared body heat, and avoiding conflict over desirable real estate. Porcupines may also spend time together in winter…

Beechdrops are dainty little plants, and easy to overlook in summer. This time of year, their forms stand out against fresh snow. Their relationship with the American beech is parasitic, they…