The route traveled on a legendary backpacking trip. Grandma and Grandpa’s woodlot. The lake where two lovebirds first met. Where our most cherished moments happen, their physical geography,…

Red fox kits are born with charcoal gray fur. (Coyote, wolf, and other wild canid pups are also born with this color coat.) At about five weeks of age, kits lose their dark natal coat and grow a…

Jack Bronnenberg didn’t set out to be a woodlot owner – or to run a logging and trucking company. His dream as a young man was to raise beef cattle in southeastern Kansas or northeastern…

Dawna Blackstone might be forgiven for feeling a little – well, intimidated – after driving nearly two hours to Orono for the first meeting of the 2024 Maine Master Naturalist Program.…

This past summer, University of Vermont Extension Assistant Professor Alexandra Kosiba collaborated with the NorthWoods Stewardship Center to establish climate resilience monitoring plots at a…

In Massachusetts Classrooms, Students and Turtles Help Each Other The school year has just begun, and Emilie Wilder, a field biologist and associate director of conservation engagement at the Boston…

In March, I left my apartment in the city and returned to my childhood home eight states away. Mom had to sell the house in a rush, the deal closing just before the stay-at-home orders went into…

I tend to think of our woodlot as a private Home Depot, each stand its own aisle. The species and successional stage dictate both the wood’s future use and harvest schedule: a stand of diseased…

Your morning legs slip over the side of the bed easy and feel like cool green shoots, spring bitter.   You taste the innocence—one that revisits you late in life after all the swimming, the…

Burdock (Arctium spp.) produces the annoying round burs that get stuck to your socks in the fall. (The fellow who invented Velcro™, George de Mestral from Switzerland, got the idea from the…

People often tell us that they read each issue of Northern Woodlands cover-to-cover. I can relate. I was a cover-to-cover reader from the very first issue a friend placed in my hands, back in 2007.…

Because I’ve lately been considering intentionality and taking the long view in the context of the Center for Northern Woodlands Education’s work, it feels appropriate to have Kiley…

Approximately 50 people contribute to the words and images in each issue of the magazine, and still more provide support for the publication process. Here are some of our Spring 2025 contributors.…