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Landings: Logging’s Calling Card
by Patrick White | June 21st 2016
Now that the weather has improved, I’ve been out on my bike more. A couple years ago I wrote a blog about the wildlife you… -
Gonzo Goshawks
by Elise Tillinghast | June 10th 2016
I am walking backwards in the woods, wearing a bicycle helmet, and experiencing an intense surge of cowardice. In one of my hands is a… -
A New Home and New Hope For Chestnuts
by Dave Mance III | May 27th 2016
It was a gray May day, and at the town forest in Fairlee, Vermont, a patchcut hummed with industrious students and volunteers. At the base… -
Spring Smoked Wild Turkey and Fiddlehead Risotto with Ramps and Lemon
by Dave Mance III | May 13th 2016
With respect to Donald Trump (and without making a partisan political statement), I think it’s fair to say that in a lot of ways America… -
Fire on the Mountain
by Dave Mance III | April 29th 2016
If you’re new to forest management, it might be tempting to think that forestry is a pretty simple affair. There’s a book out there that… -
Osprey Diving Demo
by Elise Tillinghast | April 28th 2016
I recently visited my family’s riverside farm in Virginia, where we’re a few years ahead of the Northeast in terms of eagle and osprey recovery… -
Big Maple Contest
by Dave Mance III | April 14th 2016
While pulling taps the other day I was marveling at some big trees in our sugarbush – the largest is the 50-incher you see here.… -
Dispatch from the Sugarwoods, 2016 - Part 4
by Dave Mance III | April 1st 2016
Our farm bush shut down in early March, but the Hall bush is higher elevation and north facing and is still producing. We sold the… -
Dispatch from the Sugarwoods, 2016 - Part 3
by Dave Mance III | March 16th 2016
I boiled for 14 hours the other day, and in between draws and fire-loadings read a column by David Brooks in The New York Times… -
Dispatch from the Sugarwoods, 2016 - Part 2
by Dave Mance III | March 4th 2016
We boiled our first sap of the year on February 21, and once it started, it ran pretty consistently until last Wednesday. By March 1… -
Dispatch from the Sugarwoods, 2016
by Dave Mance III | February 19th 2016
This is my fifth year writing a sugaring journal for this editor’s blog, and one of the nice things about having a written record of… -
Woods Savvy Quiz Winners
by Elise Tillinghast | February 4th 2016
This past autumn, Northern Woodlands circulated a “woods savvy” quiz, with the promise to announce the winners today. The quiz featured 10 multiple choice questions,… -
This and That
by Dave Mance III | January 22nd 2016
I think I speak for all of us in expressing thanks for the natural order that’s been restored by January’s cold. Two weekends ago I… -
Reflections on the Standoff in Oregon
by Dave Mance III | January 8th 2016
I help parent a teenage boy, who’s hard at work developing a portfolio of unassailable convictions. If my parents were to read this they’d smile… -
Some Insights Regarding the Aerial Caribou
by Elise Tillinghast & Susan Morse | December 22nd 2015
Rangifer tarandus var. rudolphus, also known as the aerial caribou (or aerial reindeer in Europe) lives most of the year in more northern latitudes. However,… -
Lessons in Butchering Venison
by Dave Mance III | December 11th 2015
We hung a grizzled old deer in camp this year who was in less than ideal condition, meat-wise. He was sort of randy smelling in… -
Charged-Up Chainsaws
by Patrick White | November 25th 2015
Earlier this year I had a chance to try out some electric (battery-powered) chainsaws. My expectations going in were pretty low: I figured that they… -
The Midnight Stoker
by Dave Mance III | November 12th 2015
Consider the givens in life, those moments of predictability that stand out in a constantly changing world. The sun rises in the east, for instance.… -
Writers & Readers Conference A Success
by Northern Woodlands | October 30th 2015
We’re still recovering from our big annual Writers & Readers Conference, while also putting the final touches on the winter issue of the magazine. So… -
An Old Journal
by Patrick White | October 16th 2015
A couple weeks back our friend Mike Batten, a logger who lives down the road from our office, dropped off a century-old journal he thought…
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