It must have felt like summiting a mountain, exhaustion and jubilation at war with each other, only to discover that, well, actually this isn’t the summit yet – and now you have farther to…

As late spring transitions to summer, we typically think of our northern woodlands as bursting with abundant life. But for bears, June into early July is actually a very lean time of year. Early…

Norway Pond is not like the other ponds and lakes scattered around my small New Hampshire community. Those other waterbodies are pristine, with clear, deep water and long, wild stretches filled with…

On a hot July morning on Market Street in Lyme, New Hampshire, Jaxon Morgan leaned against his car bumper swinging a long, black machete through the air. A quiet man with broad gestures, thick white…

In 1926, newlyweds Alva and Mildred Richardson moved to the wilds of New Hampshire. Alva was just starting a job as a U.S. Forest Guard in the recently established White Mountain National Forest…

In 2017, Inland Woods + Trails joined Bike the Borderlands, a collaborative of eight mountain bike organizations located in three states and two countries. The group promotes mountain biking trail…

Weaving a Northern Forest Ethic The earth beneath our feet grounds us, its contours orient us, its waterways guide us. The land is foundational for us all, but the ways we move through and interact…

“There’s no finer place to be on a hot day than in water, but I quickly tire of swimming, so recently, I began bringing an underwater camera to the lakes and rivers near my home,”…

Our forests provide us myriad benefits, but none more critical to life than the way they interact with water. Trees collect and absorb water through branches, leaves, and roots, and then release it…

This has been a year for walking. With the Covid-19 restrictions that science, precaution, and fear have engendered, many of us have found solace in the great outdoors. Mountain trails, country roads,…

Irises, with their large, exotic-looking flowers waving atop tall stems, are among the showiest early summer blooms. Most of North America’s nearly 30 native iris species are found in the…

This Week in the Woods, Assistant Editor Meghan McCarthy McPhaul discovered a patch of little bluets. Also called known as Quaker ladies, these exquisite little flowers typically grow in clusters in…

This issue features Rediscovering Coyote Hollow, Sawing on the Amidon, When the Women Manned the Mountains, Citizens of the Land: Weaving a Northern Forest Ethic, and much more! Order a copy of this…

The summer before I started here at Northern Woodlands, my daughter asked to visit Norwich for her 16th birthday. On that day we hiked Giles Mountain and climbed the fire tower to look over a vast…

Four summers ago, Put Blodgett and I met to discuss Northern Woodlands’ editorial goals. Put was not a close friend, but I admired him very much as a renaissance man and force of nature. Among…

A reader in the Finger Lakes region of New York sent in this photo of flowers he’d never spotted before. What are they?

As children, Mary Hull and her brothers spent afternoons playing at their family’s Pomfret, Connecticut, sawmill. These days, all three Hull siblings work in the family business, Hull Forest…

This spring, as you walk outside, keep an ear open for two distinctive bird songs: zee zee zee zee zo zee or zee zee zo zo zee. If you hear them, you’ve identified a black-throated green warbler…

This Week in the Woods, the small but spectacular spring wildflower fringed polygala (also called fringed milkwort and gaywings) is in bloom. This little evergreen reproduces both by pollination of…

I often watch out for stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) while hiking in central Vermont. As you might guess from its name, brushing against this plant causes a bee sting-like burn that can last for…