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Joan Nichols is a consulting forester who has been working in Connecticut since 1983. Originally from New York City, Nichols graduated from SUNY-ESF with a degree in forest resources…

Sy Montgomery is a writer and a naturalist, best known for her award-winning books on animals and the natural world. She is the author of nearly 40 books for children and adults, including…

Matthew Largess is an arborist and old-growth forest enthusiast in Jamestown, Rhode Island. He studied forestry at Paul Smith’s College in the mid-1970s before leaving to work as a…

Jessica Pierce is a service forester at Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the Bureau of Forestry. She has been with the Department for 14 years and has worked…

Michael Crawford is the northern New Hampshire land manager and burn boss for The Nature Conservancy. He manages properties from the Fourth Connecticut Lake Preserve in Pittsburg, near the…

Uldis Roze is a professor emeritus at Queens College of City University of New York, where he taught biology for 39 years. His primary research interest is the North American porcupine, which…

Julie Davenport is a district forester with the Maine Forest Service. In this role, she serves about 80 towns and provides educational resources and technical assistance to landowners,…

Maria Pinto is an author, naturalist, and mycophile living outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She writes fiction and nonfiction, and this autumn published her book Fearless, Sleepless,…

What a summer it was for the pollinator garden in its second year! Growth was vigorous, and blooms were abundant – drawing a constant hum of life from bees, butterflies, birds, and…

Theo Ostman-Sofocli and Yonatan Axelrad are seventh graders living outside Hartford, Connecticut. They are enthusiastic naturalists and volunteer at Roaring Brook Nature Center, where they…

David Gregg is the director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS). David first discovered his love for natural history as an insect aficionado, then as an archeologist and…

Lyme, NH – The Center for Northern Woodlands Education (CNWE) board of directors is delighted to announce that Editor Meghan McCarthy McPhaul has been awarded the Society of American…

Rosemary Mosco is a science communicator, cartoonist, and naturalist. She creates the Bird and Moon comic series, publishes cartoons in Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine,…

Paul Pouliot is the Sag8mo, or the principal male speaker, for the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, headquartered in Alton, New Hampshire. His wife and research partner Denise…

The garden is attracting so much life! Each day brings new or familiar visitors – monarchs drifting among the flowers, hummingbirds flashing past, bees and wasps at work, and tree frogs…

Mike Gallagher is a research ecologist and the lead scientist at the U.S. Forest Service’s Silas Little Experimental Forest in the New Jersey pine barrens. Mike has turned his lifelong…

Kass Urban-Mead is a pollinator conservation specialist, NRCS partner biologist, and the forests and forestry lead at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. After working as the…

Jeff Ward is a scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. He began his career there in 1987, after completing a PhD in forest ecology from Purdue University. Jeff’s…

Things are always changing in the Northern Woodlands Pollinator Garden, and we love watching the season unfold. These photos capture some recent bursts of life and color, as well as a few new…