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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… -
Envisioning Vermont in 2065
by Dave Mance III | October 2nd 2015
I went to a group-think exercise the other day where participants were asked to envision what the landscape in Vermont would look like 40 years… -
Fascinating and Wicked Gross
by Dave Mance III | September 17th 2015
Like a lot of kids who grew up rural, I was introduced to many of the wonders of nature through hunting. Specifically squirrel hunting, which… -
Making the Switch to Lead-Free Bullets
by Dave Mance III | September 4th 2015
Mr. Trefry was my seventh grade industrial arts teacher and an avid fisherman. He showed me how to cast lead jigs, which I used over… -
Breaking Down Technological Barriers in Maine
by Elise Tillinghast | August 21st 2015
Spend time in northern Maine, and you’ll likely get an earful of two seemingly incompatible complaints. The first is the scarcity of jobs. The shuttering… -
Summer Sky
by Dave Mance III | August 6th 2015
G and I were out for a walk the other night, talking about and wondering why the sky has been so beautiful for the last… -
White Pine Then and Now
by Dave Mance III | July 23rd 2015
We’re doing a big story on white pine blister rust in the Autumn issue, and in tracking down art for the piece came across a… -
Birch Peelers
by Dave Mance III | July 10th 2015
The birch bark peelers arrived in a pickup pulling a covered trailer. There was a 4-wheeler in it, a smaller trailer, and sheets of cardboard… -
On The Coast
by Dave Mance III | June 26th 2015
I went on vacation this past week down to southern Massachusetts, a place that’s really a different world to a guy from Vermont: the land… -
On Sawmilling
by Dave Mance III | June 12th 2015
I’ve been trying to line things up to build a house for a few years now, and am getting nowhere fast. I’ve made some recent… -
No Way to Say What’s in the Heart. Never.
by Dave Mance III | May 27th 2015
It’s often implied, if it’s not said outright, that nature is a cruel, cold place. We’ve all seen trees wrapped around each other fighting for… -
Tick Talk
by Dave Mance III | May 15th 2015
I went to a tick talk last night in southwestern Vermont that was sponsored by Bennington College and the Bennington County Sustainable Forestry Consortium. Kathleen… -
On The Boardwalk
by Dave Mance III | May 1st 2015
You do this job long enough and you turn into Andy Rooney, I’ve decided, which is to say that you slowly become some crotchety old… -
Dispatch from the Sugarwoods 2015 Part 4
by Dave Mance III | April 17th 2015
We boiled for the last time this season last Saturday – a raw, cold day. It froze hard that night, but Sunday rose up into…
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