July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded worldwide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Rising temperatures associated with climate change have dramatically…

Lepidopterist JoAnne Russo will transform our backyard into a moth stage. We invite you to observe and learn! Bring a camera or cell phone, a head lamp or small flashlight, and some eye protection…

On June 11 - 12 from 5 PM to 5 PM, NH Gives will go live, and we hope you will consider giving to our native plant pollinator garden campaign. NH Gives is a 24-hour period of giving that allows you to…

This week in the woods, we discovered a wild turkey egg tucked within a decaying tree stump and partly covered with moss and wood. To figure out what had happened, we checked with Northern Woodlands…

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice stumbles upon a large mushroom. She peeps over the edge and encounters a caterpillar “smoking a long hookah, and taking not the…

This issue features Future Climate-Adapted Tree Species, TimberHP, Paul Tuller’s One Tree Project, What’s Happening to the Fisher, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit…

The summer I was 23, I lived in a treehouse in the Maine woods. My boyfriend, Curry, and I had just returned to the state after an unsuccessful attempt to start careers in Colorado, near my family.…

August ushers in the season of satiety, an interval of repose. Botanically speaking, it is what I refer to as the “Lammas-time lull,” a dip in the calendar of bloom when the plant world…

If there is an amphibian that is a master of disguise, it has to be the gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor). The adults of this species are capable of changing color (gray, green, or brown) to match their…

This article is the second in a four-part series that focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation in forests. A companion series published last year focused on forest carbon. Alexandra Kosiba, a…

A couple of years ago, I joined colleagues from University of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management for a day of fieldwork studying brook trout (Salvelinus…

The Summer 2024 issue of Northern Woodlands includes an article by Michael Freeman, describing efforts to reduce the impacts of invasive phragmites (also called common reed), an especially aggressive…

In 2010, my dog treed a young fisher in the woods bordering my neighbor’s Christmas tree farm. I was surprised to spot the animal in this portion of southeastern New Hampshire, within 5 miles of…

Here’s a botanical riddle: What has fruits that look like a juneberry, flowers that look like a blackberry, leaves that look like an apple, and a name that sounds like a cherry? Answer: The…

Richard Silliboy, vice chief of the Mi’kmaq Nation, uses splints of brown ash (also known as black ash) to weave a basket in his studio near Houlton, Maine. Silliboy participates in the Ash…

It is not uncommon to find an apple tree deep in the woods, a reminder that the forest-dominated landscape we know today is relatively recent. In the 1800s, farmers cleared much of the region for…

When the last ice sheet began melting some 20,000 years ago, the climate changed dramatically, and trees responded. As temperature and humidity shifted, tree populations expanded and contracted as…

Angelena Ross has been studying spruce grouse for more than 20 years, first as a graduate student at State University of New York at Potsdam and now for the New York State Department of Conservation.…

In 2004, foresters Laura French and Jeremy Turner connected at a Forest Stewards Guild meeting in Orono, Maine. Turner asked French if she’d like to join him on a hike in the woods. “And…