Issue 127: Winter 2025 $12.00
This issue features: Winter Wonders Preventing the Next Spruce Budworm Outbreak How Harvested Wood Moves through Maine The Forest Revealed, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit…
Returning Home: Magnetic Homing
Every holiday season there is a mass migration of humans towards home and family. We use many tools to help us navigate back to the places we’re from – from simple maps to sophisticated…
Mystery Bug
This black and orange bug was found near a hardwood forest and field in Franconia, New Hampshire. What is it?
The Forest Revealed: An Illustrated Year $29.99
Discover the northern forest’s remarkable diversity through twelve breathtaking paintings – one for each month of the year. Artist Jada Fitch captures the rhythm of the seasons in vivid…
Field Guide to the Woody Plants of the Northern Forest $24.95
A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to the trees, shrubs, and woody vines of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Covering 272 species, this compact field guide by naturalist…
Fawn Notecard $4.25
This watercolor captures the delicate coloring and gentle presence of one of spring’s newest arrivals. Single card with matching envelope Blank inside for your own message Size: 5.5” high…
Sugar Maple Notecard $4.25
The sound of sap dripping, the sight of buckets filled to the brim, and the sweet reward of freshly boiled syrup mark the arrival of spring. This image comes from an original watercolor painting.…
November: Week Three
This week in the woods, white green-algae coral (Multiclavula mucida) appeared beside a beaver pond as it often does: regularly distributed across a decaying, moist, barkless log crusted with algae.…
How Can I Help? Saving Nature with Your Backyard $30.00
From a New York Times bestselling author and wildlife expert, Douglas Tallamy offers practical guidance for making a difference in your own backyard. Answering common questions from his lectures, he…
Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests $30.00
A radical proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local and regional wood in home building. In Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local…
Fostering Forest Connections with Julie Davenport
Julie Davenport is a district forester with the Maine Forest Service. In this role, she serves about 80 towns and provides educational resources and technical assistance to landowners, loggers,…
October 2025
October lit up the landscape with a last, brilliant burst of color, while wildlife adjusted to shorter days and cooler temperatures. A diving beetle was still on the move, captured by Christine Young…
Burgeoning Black Bear Populations
A few nights ago, I heard a crash on the front porch and flicked on the light to reveal a black bear’s reflective eyes. It lorded over the contents spilling out of our overturned floor freezer.…
November: Week Two
This week in the woods, as temperatures drop and the first snows mix with cold rain, we think of what the winter may have in store for our forests. As Jen Weimer describes in an Outside Story article…