Ninety years ago, my grandparents bought a swaybacked farmhouse and 20 acres of land in Orleans County, Vermont. Cedarhurst Farm, as it was known then, sat atop a sloping meadow along the shore of…

A friend recently showed up at my workshop complaining that his chainsaw was “bogging” and wouldn’t run at full throttle. He assumed the issue was related to fuel delivery and asked…

Your October photos included late season arthropods and fungi, and a number of landscape scenes featuring water, mountains, and fall foliage. Susan Margolis dazzled with a macro shot of a beetle, Bill…

With the risk of tick-borne diseases increasing in northern New England, scientists at the University of Maine launched a citizen science project in nine southern and coastal counties in 2020 to…

Chris Crowe grew up in Littleton, New Hampshire, just across the street from where he lives now. As a boy, he spent every moment he could tagging along with his father, Luther, who owned LR Crowe…

This chunk of bark, which stood out against a backdrop of fallen brown leaves, seems to be a missing piece of a puzzle. What happened here?

As we stroll down a forest trail, we pass trees of all types and sizes, with red and orange and brown leaves strewn below, a riot of ferns fading to yellow, and intermittent moss-covered rocks.…

This Week in the Woods, a nighttime camera trap at the edge of an apple orchard revealed the presence of a deer, porcupine, and this handsome gray fox. As noted in this Outside Story essay by Meghan…

This Week in the Woods, we encountered a mass of white fluff on an alder that wiggled a bit when we passed our hands over it. This was a clump of woolly alder aphids – tiny insects dressed in…

Years ago, I visited two Vermont caves in winter to help biologists count hibernating bats. After descending through a hole into the first cave, I immediately noticed that it was much warmer than…

You can’t miss the flash of a Cardinal and this Cardinal Necklace is a reminder of what a thrill it is to see one. It is handcrafted out of sterling silver and lacquered jeweler’s brass…

We found what appeared to be scraps of dinosaur skin under the leaves by a stream. What is this?

As a child growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, Clifton Harcum’s outside recreation was limited to the playgrounds and ballfields of youth sports. It wasn’t until his first job after college…

My German mother was a highly superstitious soul, especially when it came to the natural world. Case in point, one day a “fairy ring” of mushrooms appeared in our yard. My mother became…

This Week in the Woods, during a staff walk near our office, we discovered a large clubtail dragonfly that we later identified as a female zebra clubtail. One clue that you may be looking at a…

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Your Way to Easily Identify Backyard Birds At the cabin, in the garden, or on a hike, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Stan Tekiela’s best-selling bird field guides and featuring…

Your Quick Guide to Identifying Butterflies in the Northeast At the park, in the garden, or on a walk, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Jaret C. Daniels’ best-selling butterfly…

Fall’s cooling temperatures signal many changes. Among the least visible, but most incredible, is the migration of the American eel. Somewhere right now, at the bottom of a lake, pond, or river,…

We’ve reached that point of autumn where there seem to be as many leaves on the ground as there are left clinging to trees and shrubs and vines. A quick leaf-gathering walk near the Northern…