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Lyme, NH – The Center for Northern Woodlands Education (CNWE) has named Jackson Saul as Executive Director of the environmental nonprofit. CNWE is best known as the publisher of Northern…

Daniel Mason is a physician, author, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. His most recent book, North Woods (2023), is a work of historical fiction that tells the…

Since moving our nonprofit headquarters to Lyme, New Hampshire, we’ve wanted to replace our front lawn with a native plant pollinator garden. This year, thanks to the Jack & Dorothy…

Alissa Wetherbee grew up exploring and working in the woods on Maine’s Mount Desert Island – home of Acadia National Park. In her early 20s, Alissa discovered logging sports…

Jenna Antonino DiMare and Ari Rockland-Miller have been exploring the woods since they were children. Originally from western Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley, the married couple met in…

A lifelong resident of Keene, New Hampshire, Wendy Ward has held a love and curiosity for the natural world for as long as she remembers. For the past 29 years she’s worked with the…

Naila Moreira teaches science writing at Smith College. Her journalism, nature writing, fiction, and poetry have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Scientific American, numerous…

Ryan Heck started college as an environmental sciences major, but an elective class shifted his focus toward social work and human services. As someone who turns to the natural world to find…

Thomas Seeley is a professor of biology in Cornell University’s Department of Neurology and Behavior and the author of Piping Hot Bees & Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of…

Laurie Dirkx grew up a few minutes’ drive from the city of Rochester, New York, and has always been drawn to the quiet of the natural world and to animals – both wild and domestic.…

Amara Ifeji has a unique perspective on the outdoors and environmental education – and the importance of access to those arenas. She is a first-generation American, a Mainer, and…

Charley Eiseman grew up in central Massachusetts, surrounded by woods, with a small pond nearby. He credits that setting, and his mother’s long involvement in conservation work, for his…

Writers in the Woods, a companion series to our Community Voices interviews, focuses on authors and artists whose work relates to the forests of the Northeast. For the first interview in the…

Growing up in Stamford, Connecticut, Lisa Sausville reveled in trips to her family’s retreat near a working dairy farm once owned by her great-grandparents in a rural part of the state.…

A child of the Midwest, Robert “Thor” Thorson loved the lakes and forests of that region from an early age. Although he started his career as a geologist in Alaska – with a…

Ecologist Rick Van de Poll’s interests in the forest are as varied as the species that live there. He is a mycologist and a wetlands scientist, a teacher and a mountaineer, a poet and a…

We were excited to learn recently that the New Hampshire chapter of Project Learning Tree (PLT) is receiving new support, thanks in large part to the New Hampshire Timberland Owners…

Vermont born and raised, Zarabeth Duell grew up hiking and camping around the state – activities she has continued with her now-teenaged children. A structural engineer by training, she…

Brett Chedzoy has worked as a forester for the past 30 years. His work – and his interests – bridge forestry and agriculture. A forester with the Cornell Cooperative Extension…

As the child of a military family, Janel Lawton moved often as a kid, including stints in Key West, Florida, rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and urban New Jersey. She opted to attend college in…