This week in the woods marks the middle of the breeding season for the gray jay, or Canada jay, which we find nearby in the Northeast Kingdom and White Mountains, including Mount Moosilauke. These…

We came across this woody plant growing low to the ground and bearing pale, yellowish fruit. What plant is this?

Brandon Wilson Radcliffe is an environmental educator and ecologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an instructor in the Urban Silviculture Training Program, an urban forestry and tree management…

Northern Woodlands invites sponsorship of the Northern Woodlands Conference from businesses and nonprofits. Sponsorship will signal your commitment to environmental stewardship and nature education…

Light in the evening brings the first sign of spring’s arrival. Before the snow has fully melted or any scraps of green start to appear, those lengthening days are a promise. Just when…

This week in the woods, fisher tracks wove through mature mixed hardwoods, planted red pines, and hemlock stands, along downed logs, across streams, and over wooded hills. We followed the prints for…

By Paul Catanzaro and Anthony D’Amato How do you care for the health of your forest? This comprehensive guide empowers landowners with the knowledge of how to manage a family forest to capture…

At this time of year, wild eastern turkeys are still congregated in the flocks of 20 or so birds with which they spend the winter. Groups of hens, mature female turkeys, will generally winter with the…

Liz Thompson is an ecologist and conservationist currently based in Vermont. Thompson worked to inventory and conserve land with The Nature Conservancy and Vermont Land Trust for most of her career…

This week in the woods, snowmelt revealed what has remained green all winter: wall scalewort reaching toward the blue sky from around tree bases, Christmas ferns flattened against the leaf litter, and…

We found this seed on the snow in Corinth, Vermont. What tree is it from?

In early March, birds that have been gone all winter begin appearing at my feeder. One of the earliest of these spring migrants is a brown-backed sparrow with a white breast coarsely streaked with…

While birds were still the stars of February’s submissions, small mammals were beginning to show their faces, a welcome hint that the season is quietly turning. A stunning fox paused just long…

Fishers (Pekania pennanti) have a reputation as the northern forests’ ultimate misanthropes. These mesocarnivores are so territorial that within six to eight months after their birth, young…

Marguerite Holloway opens Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America’s Imperiled Forests with her first visit to the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop at Camp…

“It just looks like grass.” I’ve heard this many times from non-botanists after I’ve pointed out some subtle plant. Indeed, many flowering plants blend in readily with grasses…

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin The portrait photographer…

As spring arrives, we revel in the budding out of plants and trees and the emergence of insects, birds, and animals. The lengthening days awaken many species, and added warmth contributes to their…

Few things have affected our relationship with the outdoors as much as the surge in blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis, often referred to as deer ticks) over the past few decades. Like many others,…

At the height of May’s morel season, I approach a standing dead elm, its loosened gray bark peeling back like partially husked corn. My morel eyes are a point of pride, and somehow it feels like…