It’s easy to assume plants just sit there and do little, while animals run around busying themselves. Not the case: Plants often are on the move, or at least their seeds are. A plant…

My friend J was lucky enough to draw a Vermont moose tag last year; luckier still to take a strange-looking-but-in-a-good-way bull on the fourth day of the season. The bull was 10.5 years old, as…

Have you ever wondered what your property looks like from above? Or how it fits in with your neighbors’ properties? Topographic maps and property surveys can give you an abstract understanding…

On a remote mountaintop in the Dominican Republic just before Christmas, a group of Vermont biologists crouched in the undergrowth and played recorded bird calls hoping for an early holiday present.…

It’s cheap, it’s plastic, but for half a century, the little 21-drawer storage chest has been serving its purpose. It and everything in it could very well have been tossed long ago, but I…

Thomas Deininger is an artist, an environmentalist, and an iconoclast. His large assemblages often fracture traditional artistic premises in an overt and seductive manner. By using decidedly…

Once the world discovers you know something about nature, the questions never end.  Odd phone calls come from people you’ve never met asking about the identity of this or that plant or…

The prices reported here are those that log buyers—mostly sawmills and wholesalers—are paying for logs. Because these are prices paid for delivered wood, landowners need to adjust the…

When temperatures linger around 60 degrees, most people reach for light jackets or flannel shirts; conversely, when the mercury hits 80, we don shorts and short sleeves. Seventy degrees? Well…

Bim … bim … bam.  This late-summer sound announces that our oak tree produced acorns this year and is dropping them onto the metal roof of our shed. Along our road in Thetford,…

We’ve received all sorts of feedback on Dave Mance’s story on hunting camps in the Autumn issue. One wrote that “I wanted the hunting camp article to go on and on.” Going to…

Somewhere in a marsh in northern Ohio stands an 85-foot-tall American chestnut tree. The existence of this tree, one of only a handful of its kind to survive chestnut blight, remained a secret until…

Trees grow where they can. And they are surpassingly capable, making do in an impressive array of conditions around the globe, including many harsh places. But there are limits to their versatility.…

Didymo in a river looks like many gross things: trailing wisps of toilet paper, goopy brown blobs, a coating of slime. It’s commonly referred to as “rock snot” and for good reason.…

When I was a boy of about eight, I used to hunt deer out of a little 12x16 camp that sat up in a bowl on the top of Shatterack Mountain in Rupert, Vermont. My father and Junior Harwood had gone in…

A woolly bear hunches along a rock wall, stops, raises its head and starts off in a new direction. Now that it’s late summer, this rusty-brown and black larva of the Isabella tiger moth is…

There’s that moment, when you’re riding on a Ferris wheel, when the gondola you’re riding in pauses at the circle’s highest point. The engine stops and you just dangle there.…

What’s in a name? With Northern Woodlands as the flagship program of an organization officially named the Center for Woodlands Education, there has been some confusion over the different names.…

On a remote mountaintop in the Dominican Republic, a group of biologists crouched in the undergrowth and played pre-recorded bird calls. In the dim light came a reply: Pweer….. pweer…..…

Dragonflies are nature’s aeronautical marvels.  Whether darting over water at 35 miles per hour or hovering in midair, they are a spectacle of colors in motion—from a delicate…