Plants are not often thought of as predators. They’re the nice guys. With over 300,000 species known to exist, only a small fraction are known to be meat-eaters. In our northern bogs, for…

This mysterious green slime was found growing outside Bill Peberdy’s woodshop in Corinth, Vermont. What is it?

My grandfather on my father’s side came from Dutch/German/Irish stock who settled in New York’s Shawangunk Mountains several hundred years ago. If you’ve never been to the…

At age 12, Paul Reed plunked down $275 for a new Jonsered, his first chainsaw. The boy’s father ran a small sideline firewood business, and while dad had spare chainsaws, of course, Paul wanted…

I went to Northeastern Wyoming a few weeks back; vague childhood memories of Devil’s Tower and Yellowstone did nothing to prepare me for just how different the landscape is out there. There are…

The demise of the local sawmill has been closely followed by the rise of the sawyer with a portable bandsaw mill. Usually the sawyer will come to your house, set the mill up parallel to your log…

One for the Ages: Hurricane of 1938 Life in Your Logs Paying for State Wildlife Conservation Getting to the Bottom of the Scrape and much more

If you’ve ever tried to grow a tree from a single seed, and failed, you’ll probably want to know how the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery manages to grow about a quarter of a million…

As the summer bird chorus wanes, we might remember that song can arrive in unexpected ways. Drumming heads, clacking bills, and dancing feet create nonvocal sound. Even flight, that foremost avian…

Intensely personal poetry only works if readers can recognize something of themselves, or some universal truth, or something fun or beautiful in the prose. If it’s there, the poet and reader…

There’s something about wilderness rescues and mishaps that seems to bring out the voyeur in many of us. Are we drawn to the cautionary tale, fascinated by the raw power of nature and the…

Craig Mooney is a master of atmospheric perspective. He manipulates his oil paints to reflect the effect that weather, atmosphere, and shifting light have on the appearance of a place. Mooney paints…

Climate change is affecting a wide range of wildlife, from plants and bees to birds and trees. A new study led by biologists at Boston University adds butterflies to the list, finding that…

On the lower levels of the food chain, danger is rarely out of spitting distance. Risk from predators has spurred the evolution of many clever adaptations – camouflage coloring, speedy retreat,…

Reader Paul Fillion submitted this picture that his daughter Renee took in central New Hampshire. What is it?

If summer were a weeklong vacation, mid-August would be Friday afternoon. You’re not packing your bags to come home yet, but there’s an awareness that there’s more behind you than in…

For cabinetmakers, both professional and amateur, the name Christian Becksvoort will have the same kind of resonance that Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle will have for a baseball fan. Becksvoort has been…

Last week my eight-year-old nephew, Romeo, got on an animals kick. He's an inquisitive kid who's fascinated by things like white blood cells and he absolutely loves sharks. So, knowing that I…

Soils throughout the world store more carbon, in the form of organic matter, than all of the vegetation and atmosphere combined. Microorganisms in the soil – bacteria, fungi, protozoa,…

A project to map the genes of spruce and pine trees has revealed that the genome of conifers has remained pretty much the same for more than 100 million years. This stability explains why…