Noah moves ahead of me in the streambed, walking through a green tunnel, the rest of the world walled off. In July, the woods are thick with leaves, and the rhododendron that crave water grow in dense…

Twenty-five years ago, a student brought me a dead, tattered specimen of a moth. Its prodigious wingspan, colorfully banded fuzzy body, and spectacular wings were unmistakable: cecropia moths stand…

As a science teacher, I love strawberries not just for their flavor, but also for their DNA. I use strawberries to show high school students how to extract DNA from living tissue. A quirk of their…

I’ve tended to think about deer over-browsing in forests as primarily a tree regeneration problem, because that damage is easy to see. In my own woods, the sad, scraggly remains of hardwood…

Approximately 50 people contribute to the words and images in each issue of the magazine. Here are some of our Summer 2023 contributors. {image2} Todd Davis (“What the Old Ones Show Us,”…

On a recent walk through a woodlot in Greensboro, Vermont, friends encountered a healthy patch of sugar maple seedlings, but one tree (left) appeared to be dying. Closer inspection showed multiple…

When Jim Kennedy moved about five years ago to a new property in Hanover, New Hampshire, just down the road from where he’d lived for more than four decades, he set to work – eradicating…

all-day rain a tentful of ghost stories evening paddle       a great blue heron             pulls me upriver still pond a turtle pokes…

In this second installment of a four-part series focused on forest carbon and supported by the Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, forest ecologist and tree physiologist Alexandra Kosiba provides an…

This is the time of year when my yard feels bursting with life, as the neighborhood welcomes eastern phoebes, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and broad-winged hawks back from their long migrations. At the…

This week in the woods, white spotted sables have been showing up in meadows and (as in this photo) unmowed lawns. These tiny (about 2-centimeter wingspan) daytime moths will be flying until July.…

This issue features Forest Soil Carbon, Hummingbirds & Cardinal Flowers, Slash Walls, MillionTrees NYC, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit Subscription Services to subscribe to our…

The best writers, whether they focus on fiction or truth, are first and foremost storytellers. Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx is among the best. In her slim volume, Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short…

At the age of 49, Susan Fox Rogers had reached an inflection point in life, single and with no children, both parents recently passed away, and immersed in a happy teaching and writing career at Bard…

I grew up on a large tree farm in western Connecticut, and my family’s backyard tree nursery was surrounded by northern white-cedars. White-tailed deer browsed the trees’ lower branches,…

We’ve all heard the idiom, “The early bird gets the worm.” When it comes to invasive jumping worms, unfortunately, there are more than enough to go around. These invasive worms can…

This Week in the Woods we were excited to find a Canada warbler. These are exceptionally beautiful birds – especially the males, with their dramatic black necklaces – but they can be hard…

Readers shared a bumper crop of images for the April gallery, resulting in some difficult choices for the editors! Your photos included early spring wildflowers, amphibian eggs, waterfalls, and early…

While out pulling invasive garlic mustard, we found what looks like a weird purple carrot sprouting from the leaf litter. What is this?

A member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Jessica Raspitha started working with the tribe’s Environment Division as an intern during her college years, and has been a full-time employee since…