An interview with David Montague, president of the Downeast Lakes Land Trust The Downeast Lakes Land Trust was one of the first organizations in the Northeast to conserve land using carbon…

Winter has traditionally been a productive time of year for the forest products industry in the Northeast. Landowners schedule timber harvests in the winter season to take advantage of frozen grounds…

Chances are, you’ve already eaten cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) as a tart Thanksgiving condiment whose congealed sauce keeps the shape of its supermarket can. When I was young, I took this…

One summer day I lifted the black plastic top of our composter and jumped back, startled – a large snake was curled up on top of the compost. The yellow stripe down the center of its dark back…

This Week in the Woods, it feels like the tipping point between the summer and autumn – cool, foggy mornings, and so many acorns on the trails. Yellow jackets are becoming more noticeable. There…

Common green darners are among the largest dragonflies in the Northeast, and they are voracious predators, capturing large flying insects – including other dragonflies – while in flight.…

When the next major outbreak of spruce budworm strikes the forests of the Northeast, millions of acres of trees will be at risk. Nearly 100 million metric tons of stored carbon will also be at risk of…

Porcupines are quite common across the northern tier of the United States, but scientists at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have discovered a crippling fungal disease that is often…

Whose Mouth Do I Speak With? I can remember my father bringing home spruce gum. He worked in the woods and filled his pockets with golden chunks of pitch. For his children he provided this special…

Carbon Credits in Downeast Maine, Silence: A Journey of Discovery on the Cohos Trail by Willow Nilsen, Wild Turkeys of Suburbia by Todd McLeish, Dartmouth's Second College Grant by Ross Caron, A…

Northern Woodlands, a quarterly magazine, celebrates northeastern forests and the people who care for them. A fun read with a serious purpose, it’s published by the Center for Northern Woodlands…

In the Kingdom of October, early morning fog wraiths hang upon hardwood hillsides of burnt orange and smoldering gold. Overgrown apple orchards, each tree bent and hag twisted by the pitiless years,…

Ying Li paints out of doors most of the time, but her work is not what comes to mind when one thinks of “en plein air” painting. Historically, the plein air approach was fundamental to the…

The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. Emily Dickinson No matter where one lives in the Northeast, the song of the cricket serves as both a call…

“I first put my boots on the ground in the Maine Woods in 1965,” explained Roger Merchant. “Like this wood turtle, the going was slow and deliberate.” He photographed the…

The living light of bioluminescent organisms like fireflies, anglerfish, and marine plankton is legendary. The dazzling light shows put on by synchronous fireflies in Great Smoky Mountains National…

This Week in the Woods, the season has tipped toward early autumn, with the first turned leaves lying here and there on the forest floor. Fungi is abundant, including eyelash cup fungi – tiny…

To bee, or not to bee: What is happening in this photograph?

Jason Berard grew up in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. He and his wife moved from Boston to the Upper Valley two decades ago and have raised their three children – all now teenagers –…

Last July, Rich Kelley posted a most unusual photograph to the Vermont Birding Facebook group with the caption, “Someone bit off more than he could chew.” The photo, taken in the…