Join us at the Norwich Bookstore for an evening with the authors of Tending Your Forest: A Guide to Ecological Forest Stewardship in the Eastern and Central United States. Paul Catanzaro and Anthony…

By Paul Catanzaro and Anthony D’Amato How do you care for the health of your forest? This comprehensive guide empowers landowners with the knowledge of how to manage a family forest to capture…

At this time of year, wild eastern turkeys are still congregated in the flocks of 20 or so birds with which they spend the winter. Groups of hens, mature female turkeys, will generally winter with the…

Liz Thompson is an ecologist and conservationist currently based in Vermont. Thompson worked to inventory and conserve land with The Nature Conservancy and Vermont Land Trust for most of her career…

This week in the woods, snowmelt revealed what has remained green all winter: wall scalewort reaching toward the blue sky from around tree bases, Christmas ferns flattened against the leaf litter, and…

We found this seed on the snow in Corinth, Vermont. What tree is it from?

In early March, birds that have been gone all winter begin appearing at my feeder. One of the earliest of these spring migrants is a brown-backed sparrow with a white breast coarsely streaked with…

While birds were still the stars of February’s submissions, small mammals were beginning to show their faces, a welcome hint that the season is quietly turning. A stunning fox paused just long…

Pickerel frogs emerge early in spring from their muddy, pond-bottom hibernacula. They mate in April and May in the Northeast, and males call to attract females for four to six weeks. The calls…

Fishers (Pekania pennanti) have a reputation as the northern forests’ ultimate misanthropes. These mesocarnivores are so territorial that within six to eight months after their birth, young…

Named for the string of lakes where the Connecticut River begins its 400-mile flow from northern New Hampshire, the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters region has long been prized for its thick stands of…

Many of us associate bees with gardens or fields of wildflowers and are familiar with the common eastern and golden northern bumble bees we see there. However, forests also provide critical habitat…

At the height of May’s morel season, I approach a standing dead elm, its loosened gray bark peeling back like partially husked corn. My morel eyes are a point of pride, and somehow it feels like…

One floor above the taxidermied polar bears and crocodiles, in an annex adjacent to the eclectic collection of geological wonders and historical artifacts from faraway places, the Fairbanks…