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A few winters ago, I snowshoed along a trail that led below a series of cliffs with rows of huge, hanging icicles. These icicles were up to 40 feet long, with colors ranging from blue-green to…

For a month with a bleak reputation, January 2023 inspired a number of colorful and lively images from our gallery photographers. Frequent topics included winter birds (especially owls), intriguing…

Reader Barbara Strell sent in this photo of a series of holes punched into the bottom of an oak tree in New Hampshire. What happened here?

Walt Cottrell has worked as a wildlife biologist, a domestic animal veterinarian, and since 2005 as a wildlife veterinarian in various locations around the Northeast. Although much of his focus in…

Humans often ascribe traits that we admire to other animals. We treasure a dog’s loyalty, revere an eagle’s power, and applaud a dolphin’s intellect. We hold these creatures in high…

From the hammock where I read Beaverland, Leila Philip’s stunning new book, a beaver dam sits less than 10 feet away. Behind that dam rests a marsh filled with waterfowl. Beaverland transports…

How to Prowl for an Owl, Make Snail Slime, and Catch a Frog Bare-Handed The Animal Adventurer’s Guide is an irresistible and accessible guide to backyard wildlife. Author Susie Spikol, a…

If you get a chance this winter, take a peek through the icy window of a pond surface. You may see water boatmen (order Hemiptera: Family Corixidae) clinging to the pond floor. Long oar-like hind legs…

Our sprawling East Coast cities, often visited for their history and culture, don’t usually attract naturalists in search of wild flora. But perhaps that will change: Urban Lichens: A Field…

On my family’s 80-acre Christmas tree farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom was a large swamp populated by northern white cedar trees. The swamp was at the base of Mount Monadnock, which…

We discovered these tracks in a snowy field next to a shed in central Vermont. Who left these prints?

Carolyn Egeli is a painter’s painter. As the daughter of two successful artists, she was classically trained at home from a young age, as were her four siblings. But Egeli notes that for her,…

in memory of George MacArthur I stared at a lone white cedar this morning, astonished, so few of that height and girth left standing from when they were hewn by hand for railroad ties by loggers. I…

Born in Newport, Vermont, raised in Irasburg, and having lived much of her adult life in Albany, Colleen Goodridge considers herself “a product of the Kingdom.” For the uninitiated,…