Across North America, forest managers are increasingly tasked with managing forests for multiple goals: protecting biodiversity, sustaining timber production, combating invasive species, and buffering…

A group of scientists from New Brunswick Museum have discovered a connection between one of North America’s largest and most majestic mammals – the moose (Alces alces) – and a small,…

Deborah Lee Luskin has been a writer and teacher, a mother, a hiker and skier, and a gardener. At 60, she decided to become a hunter. Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress is the story of how she…

Every year, on the first warm, rainy nights of spring, salamanders and frogs migrate en masse to vernal pools and other wetlands in a phenomenon known as Big Night. On any given migration night, tens…

In early June 2023, I was driving down the Taconic Parkway through New York’s Hudson Valley when I noticed an abrupt change to the roadside scenery. The lush forest canopy that had been my…

Named for the string of lakes where the Connecticut River begins its 400-mile flow from northern New Hampshire, the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters region has long been prized for its thick stands of…

A red maple tree in the backyard stretched well above the two-story house where I grew up. It was not an easy tree to climb, but it was the best one. I would jump up to grab the lowest branch and walk…

Many of us associate bees with gardens or fields of wildflowers and are familiar with the common eastern and golden northern bumble bees we see there. However, forests also provide critical habitat…

One floor above the taxidermied polar bears and crocodiles, in an annex adjacent to the eclectic collection of geological wonders and historical artifacts from faraway places, the Fairbanks…

At 10, I believed all rivers flowed south, pulled by gravity, down the face of a map. These many years later, such a notion seems naïve. Yet that idea – built upon a certain two-dimensional…

When Walter Kersch saw the sign announcing “400 acres for sale” across from his driveway back in 1971, he worried about what would happen if someone purchased the property and decided to…

Pickerel frogs emerge early in spring from their muddy, pond-bottom hibernacula. They mate in April and May in the Northeast, and males call to attract females for four to six weeks. The calls…

A black bear emerges from her den in the early days of spring. The snow has melted in Vermont’s Green Mountains and percolated through the soil layers to become groundwater. The blossoming red…

I was pushed out of my mother’s body one April, cold and wet, in the fifth season of the year. A measure of frost and mud. It was past the last sap boil, more amber than gold. I was a dial…

This issue features: Forest Bees Carbon vs. Cutting Blacklegged Ticks Wildflowers, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit Subscription Services to subscribe to our quarterly magazine.…

Reader Michelle Giles found these beautiful ice formations in Essex Junction, Vermont. What conditions are needed for these to form?

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 management and…

This week in the woods, a swirling mass of Bohemian waxwings gave us a treat as they descended on a neighbor’s tree to consume their own treat of winter berries. These plump but sleek and…

Dozens of people contribute to creating each issue of Northern Woodlands. Here are a few of the people whose work is featured in the Spring magazine. {image2} Bryan Pfeiffer (cover photograph) is a…

To photograph this red fox and her five kits near his home in Thetford, Vermont, without disrupting the animals, Tig Tillinghast relied on high magnification. This is one of several images he captured…