While packing up for my move back to northern New England, I came upon a photo taken in March 2002, during my last semester of graduate school at the University of Maine. I am standing next to a Super…

In the final week of August, in the last light of day, common nighthawks come whirling over our field and continue down into the Ompompanoosuc River floodplain. Two miles downriver, they encounter the…

This week in the woods, the forest floor has become noticeably darker. It is also getting drier. As trees and other plants unfurl their leaves, they’re pulling up a lot of moisture from the…

Once, when I was little, I was so thrilled to come across a gorgeous, dark-red trillium that I picked it and placed it in a vase in the house. I was disappointed when it quickly wilted. Not only that,…

This engraving shows all three of the Northeast’s nightjar species: the common nighthawk (figures 1 and 2), eastern whip-poor-will (3 and 4), and Chuck-will’s-widow (5). Explore audio…

History of Berlin, New Hampshire and a Northern Forest Photo Gallery Sally Manikian, the conservationist featured in The Space Between, found home in the Androscoggin Valley region after finding…

Resources for Boosting Pollinator Habitat in Your Backyard and Community There are several online presentations by Doug Tallamy regarding the importance of pollinator habitat and what you can do at…

This week in the woods, we’ve been noticing the new, bright green leaves of young quaking aspen. This is an early successional species, meaning that it quickly colonizes cleared areas and other…

As spring arrives, so do… bats? Like many other naturalists, I spend lots of time during this season looking for migrating salamanders and blossoming bloodroot. I’ve never thought much…

You sent us a bumper crop of April photos – so many, that we couldn’t decide which of these to publish. So instead, we’re sharing selections in two photo galleries this month. Common…

Early on the morning of April 15, at the edge of Silver Lake in New Hampshire, Mary Holmes noticed a chipmunk with its paw resting on a dead vole. What’s going on in this picture?

Jim Hayner is an Army veteran, a new dad, and a student at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks, where he’s majoring in ecological forest management. He’s also the veteran…

Continued from April 2020 Reader Photo Gallery - Part One You sent us a bumper crop of April photos – so many, that we couldn’t decide which of these to publish. So instead, we’re…

One of the first spring wildflowers you’ll see – perhaps even before the last shaded patches of snow disappear – is the violet. This common flower, which blooms from April through…

This week in the woods, the forest floor is still sunny, but new leaves on our hardwoods are becoming more noticeable. Look for the glossy red leaves of last year’s red maple seedlings;…

This week in the woods, we’re noticing many more insects, including an abundance of tiny and hard-to-identify pollinators visiting spring wildflowers. Along with the increasing insect…

This May, while we thank the human moms around us, I’ve been thinking about the many dedicated moms throughout nature, too. Nurturing mothers come in many unexpected shapes and sizes, including…

White-tailed deer populations are high across much of the Northeast, so much that deer negatively impact forest health in many areas. In parts of northern Maine, however, wildlife managers struggle to…

Every fall, members of the Sleicher family return to their Adirondack deer camp in search of something elusive. Like so many parts of rural culture, the ritual is timeless – and tenuous. A PLACE…

How many deer is too many deer? And how will today's white-tailed deer population impact tomorrow's forests? Audio producer Erica Heilman approaches the subject from different…