For environmental historian Brian Donahue and his wife Faith Rand, building a home from wood harvested on their Massachusetts farm represented a small step in mending the broken relationship between…

“Every walk had been substantially different,” writes Ted Levin in The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World, “each an endless manuscript multi-authored by clouds,…

A non-native invasive moth has been lurking in the Northeast for more than 120 years and has recently become a pest again – of trees and people – in parts of Maine. Browntail moth…

Deer browse is having a major impact on my forest’s ability to regenerate. Is there anything that I, as a forest landowner, can do about it? You are not alone! White-tailed deer overpopulations…

Many beetles are slow fliers and runners, but six-spotted tiger beetles (Cicindela sexguttata) are masters of speed. A metallic flash of green or sometimes blue may be your only glimpse of this…

“I watched this red-tailed hawk land in a giant oak with a freshly caught rabbit, and the next thing I knew a red-winged blackbird began mobbing it,” said Lee Toomey, who captured this…

“Painting realistically is like a golf game. You know where you have to go, and you hit the ball in a straight line to reach your goal. Abstraction is more like a tennis game. You hit the ball…

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…