This Week in the Woods, we found this chipmunk peeking out of its winter burrow. There were no dignitaries in top hats to greet him, but the chippie did seem to inspect his shadow before disappearing…

Being a wild bird rehabilitator requires something akin to parenting skills, combined with the grit of an emergency room doctor. The injuries and illnesses encountered are varied, as are the species…

Most of the popular discussion about the changing climate focuses on summer conditions including the increased potential for drought and extreme heat, yet winter conditions are changing most rapidly…

Learning From Dawnland Voices Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Abenaki, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, Narragansett, Mohegan, Schaghticoke. These names represent Indigenous people living in New…

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what fun what fun what a fun time of year mossy boulder in the sun icicle dripping baby cows frolicking about green meadows as high snows collapse into the whitewater that flows to yellow flowers…

“I found this ovenbird in Allegany State Park, New York. It was springtime, and he was singing lustily at the edge of the woods. His desire to claim his territory outweighed any fear he had of…

Dave Ireland is showing off his woods. Well, not his woods, exactly. We’re walking along a dirt road on Mount Desert Island. The waves and the brisk coastal wind whisper in the distance. On the…

There comes a time in every mammal mother’s life when her young leave. For some, this comes in a matter of weeks, for others it might be years. As I follow bobcat tracks through snow on a…

This Week in the Woods, we’ve been grateful for snowshoes with metal teeth. The walking conditions out there are difficult! Editor Cheryl Daigle discovered this perfectly shaped capsule attached…

I have always had a sweet tooth. And, outside of the berry season, I’ve often found it hard to satisfy my sweet tooth as a forager. Plants, of course, are constantly manufacturing sugar through…

My siblings and I grew up spending hours in the swampy woodlands behind our home, where the neighborhood kids would gather for adventures. To enter the bigger expanse of woods, we had to cross a…

We fell hard for the house the first day we saw it. We admired the old apple trees and stone walls, the handmade bricks and hand-hewn beams. At the time, those beams were only visible in one upstairs…

While snowshoeing in central Vermont, we found a number of these sideways scrapes on hardwood trees by a talus slope. What made these marks?

Peter Pfeiffer has been working in the Maine woods with a chainsaw since 1974, often on his 113-acre woodlot in Solon, where he lives off the grid, relying on solar and wind power for electricity.…

In a February forest, evergreens provide welcome color. But look more closely on the bark of trees, both conifers and hardwoods, and you’ll find other bright hues, from sunny yellows to…

This Week in the Woods, Northern Woodland’s assistant editor Meghan McCarthy McPhaul was “just skiing through the woods, lost in my thoughts, when a grouse burst out of the snow less than…

As an enthusiastic pedestrian, I was immediately drawn to the subtitle for Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days. I liked the premise, too: deliberately walk every day at the same place for a…

It seems apt – or perhaps ironic – that Aldo Leopold’s classic environmental tome was reissued this year in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I finished reading A Sand…

“More than any other living thing, trees define their surroundings,” Zach St. George writes in the opening of The Journeys of Trees: A Story About Forests, People, and the Future.…