Two destructive organisms often take their toll on white pine in Vermont. One, the white pine weevil, wrecks the sawlog potential of white pines by killing the leading shoot: when the side branches…

In southern New England and Pennsylvania, the hemlock has been under attack by the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae. There is enough fear of its spreading north that Vermont, New Hampshire and…

While there are plenty of wreathmakers in Vermont, it's quite possible that no two of them make a wreath the same way. For our wreathmaking lesson, we went to Claudette Allen of Craftsbury who…

Until you get started, telling hardwood trees apart in the winter seems really difficult. But once you learn to recognize a few trees, you will find that it isn't all that hard. A good tree to…

Many people appreciate the parklike appearance of a stand of trees in which the lower branches have been removed. Trails lined by pruned trees invite us to take a walk, and for some of us sawing off…

For thousands of years before English and French were the predominant languages spoken in northern New England, the region's woods rang with a tongue sounding like a gently gurgling forest…

Virtually every single deer within a 200 square mile section of Essex County makes tracks every December to the Nulhegan Basin to spend the winter in the relative comfort of Vermont's largest…

Until we started working on Vermont Woodlands last Spring, I thought the flow of communication in a magazine was in one direction, out from the publisher to the readers. I certainly did not expect…

Selling Timber from Your Woodlands is the subject of a workshop that will be offered in January over Vermont Interactive Television. The workshop will be presented in three two-hour segments, the…

The National Enquirer could get some mileage out of snow fleas, if only it were entomologically inclined - and had a microscope. Not only are these minute creatures not fleas, they may not even be…

To the uninitiated, a process that heats biomass - wood chips, grass clippings, food wastes and the like - with hot sand to create a gas, which is then burned to power a turbine, which then generates…

This Christmas, the national tree which brightens the west lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., will be a 60-foot tall Vermont balsam fir. The perfectly formed fir has been growing on…

On the morning of April 2, Mark Walker saw three panthers walking single file on the snow near Lake Eligo in Craftsbury. Later, when scat collected from their trail was verified to contain hairs from…

Paul Bunyan, who caused earthquakes whenever he dropped his biscuits and whose ax handle was made out of a whole pine tree trunk, was never a real folk hero of the lumbering trade. He was the…

As the Northern Forest Lands Council publishes our recommendations and begins promoting them this fall, it gives me occasion to reflect on their meaning for us and for the forest. The council was…

The adult of this native pest is often called the hunter's moth. Look for them during hunting season when they emerge from their cocoons in October or November, long after leaves have fallen and…

Migratory flights of Canada geese are hard to miss. A chorus of honking can be heard in the distance before they come into view in their ever-shifting chevron formation, and witnessing their…

If they have been half listening, owners of timberland in Vermont may be feeling good these days about the value of their holdings. Prices for stumpage are rising, mills are expanding their capacity,…

Rather than good fences, it's cooperation that can make the difference. Ken Clayton's two-acre lot in Bennington includes not more than one acre of wooded land to the north of his house.…

Almost anyone who has walked in Vermont's woods must have paused more than once to puzzle over the stone walls that run like stitching through most of the state's wooded land. Even in dense…