Invasive species don’t always arrive in North America in the bilge of a boat from Asia, in a shipment of wood from Europe, or from another distant shore. Some species, like the rusty crayfish,…

We’ll only say that yes, you do know what it is. Maybe this will be the week we’ll finally get to keep our book.

Clouds –  big suckers, with glorious mashed-potato tops and ominous sepia-toned bellies –  trolled like battleships across Bahamian blue skies Wednesday afternoon. Back on earth,…

Find yourself a sphagnum-covered bog in Vermont or New Hampshire, and you’re likely to find a pitcher plant. Peer a little closer, and you’ll find a miniature food web living within each…

Some chainsaw chains are designed to minimize the reactive force known as kickback. These chains are found on a wide range of chainsaws made for homeowners, arborists, and loggers and are required to…

Color, music, grace, and flight mingle in the lives of most birds. But no bird, at least here in the Northeast, pulls it off like a warbler. Warblers are in a family called Parulidae, known for their…

Black cherry, Prunus serotina Black cherry grows in many different situations: among white pine on abandoned farmland, with red maple on poor sites, and scattered among northern hardwoods in richer…

Since the dawn of history, humans have made great use of leather. They’ve worn it, walked on it, sat on it, wrote on it. Turning animal skin into a durable product requires processing, and in…

Anyone who reads the papers knows how badly the prices of stocks, houses, and mutual funds have done since the market peaks of a few years ago. If you don’t sell stumpage very often, you may…

There is only one place Christina Hazelton, founder of the Upper Valley Reptile Group, likes to see a red-eared slider paddling by an Eastern painted turtle: on the shelf at her organization’s…

The Backstory In May 1949, shortly after the end of World War II, Martin Lindauer, a biologist at the University of Munich, happened upon a swarm of bees hanging in a bush outside the Munich…

A strong voice for our forests went quiet when Mike Greason died on March 8. Mike had a passion for forestry that invariably entered into any conversation with him. Sure, he had all sorts of other…

Bees tend to visit only one kind of flower on a given trip, but as you can clearly see in this honeycomb, the different colored pollen from different colored flowers gets a bit mixed up in storage.…

Everybody knows that tree species vary in their ability to tolerate shade. It’s easy to find shady places in the woods where shade-tolerant species such as American beech and eastern hemlock…

It’s mid-May as I write this, on an evening that feels like the transition between spring and summer. Outside, the soggy air smells like dead worms and hyacinth and freshly split birch. The…

Five years ago, we published the first edition of our Place You Call Home series: The Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in the Upper Valley. The idea behind the publication was to…

House Hunting with Honeybees Mike Greason and the Gospel of Silviculture Trends in Maine’s Log Prices Hemlock Tanneries in Old New York Headwater Fishing, an Ode to Warblers, Battling Beech…

Spring’s grace and beauty will soon be everywhere – cue the Stravinsky. Courting songbirds will rule the air, wetlands will resonate with love-mad croaking, and on the forest floor,…

Four years ago, researchers found a statistical link between Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus and Colony Collapse Disorder in honeybees. Three years ago, researchers at Penn State University found…

Our friend Alfred Balch submitted this picture of a nest he found recently. What kind of bird made it?