As you swat away blackflies this summer, look closely; it may be that not all those flies are flies. Some of them might be tiny sweat bees, members of the Halictidae family, which gets its common name…

This week in the woods, we’ve had several close encounters with red-eyed vireo fledglings and adults. Common summer residents of deciduous woodlands, red-eyed vireos are hard to see but easy to…

We had so many submissions for June, that we opted to publish two galleries. Thank you to everyone who submitted images. Your June photos showed an abundance of young life, and broad summer…

This week in the woods, we stumbled upon this clown-faced caterpillar, which we had difficulty identifying. The linden prominent is common but hard to find; it clings to the undersides of American…

We were touring the neighborhood backroads one summer evening when the kids noticed a sleek movement through a small pond. At first, we thought it was a beaver, but its smaller size and – once…

We had so many submissions for June that we opted to publish two galleries. Thank you to everyone who submitted images. Your photos showed an abundance of young life and broad summer…

We found these weird brown bundles fastened to a log. What are they?

Bob Keller is a pilot with LightHawk, a non-profit that connects volunteer pilots with conservation organizations and uses aviation to enhance on-the-ground conservation work. Since 1994, Keller has…

Large fishing spiders walking on water can be fascinating – or terrifyingly unnerving. The latter reaction is common among Saint Michael's College students as we sample Vermont’s…

This week in the woods, the recent combination of rain and heat has produced a bumper crop of mushrooms and other fungal forms, including crown-tipped coral. This common, easy-to-identify fungus grows…

The Resilient Forest Series combines articles, films, and audio stories to explore the relationships and traditions that have helped keep northeastern forests intact. This series also considers how…

I was 22 and volunteering with an amphibian monitoring project that summer. Standing along a roadway in the woods of Sumner, Maine – armed with a clipboard and a headlamp – I strained my…

Each fall, thousands of broad-winged hawks soar across the New England sky in flocks known as kettles, on their way to wintering grounds in South and Central America. The sky swirls with hawks…

This week in the woods, the spring chorus has simmered down, but there is still plenty of bird sound out there, including the “chick-brrr” of scarlet tanagers. The males appear as flashes…

To the Northern Woodlands community, As communicators, we recognize the importance of what stories we share, how stories are told, and who tells them. These editorial choices are ultimately decisions…

Asher Brown grew up in Lyme, New Hampshire, just up the road from the current Northern Woodlands office. He’s worked as a ski patroller at the Middlebury Snow Bowl, on the Hut Croo for the…

Bob Shafto of Falmouth, Maine, submitted this photo of a fuzzy growth he found attached to a white oak seedling. What is it?

This week in the woods, we’ve been finding flies smooshed to the underside of tree leaves. This is the gruesome work of a parasitic fungus. Although not well understood, the process appears to…

There’s a story about an early tourist from New York City who stopped his horse and buggy to watch a farmer harvesting a spring crop of rocks from his land. The farmer was loading rocks onto a…

I grew up on a street lined with tall, stately elms. While walking to school one day, I found a bird’s nest that the wind had blown down. The nest was a beautiful, silky gray pouch. My teacher…