Todd Davis’s poetry asks to be read aloud, in the woods or streamside. I’ve carried his books into the spitting snow of a March lambing paddock, read them perched on ash stumps atop the…

150 Years of Fisheries Conservation and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fisheries science is often conducted out of sight – in salt marshes and southern bayous, in the hatchery and the lab.…

Several years ago, on a wet March morning, more than a hundred robins appeared in my upper pasture, everywhere and hungry. They dashed about the sorry-looking grass, stooping, pecking, swallowing…

In 1984, I bought a two-acre house lot that had been part of a hayfield on a historical farm in Tiverton, Rhode Island. It was located on the narrow coastal plain of Rhode Island’s East Bay,…

Here are four photos from a building the Thomson family is constructing on their property in Orford, New Hampshire. Tom Thomson explained these are all wood species “that I cut or had harvested on…

Mike Cherim has loved hiking for as long as he can remember. He started early, ascending mountains in a pack on his father’s back until he was big enough to hike on his own. After a stint in the…

In September 2021, one boy’s blue ribbon-winning 4H project at the Kansas State Fair made national news. The exhibit included a colorfully-spotted, inch-long, moth-like insect that immediately…

Reading the Forested Landscape, by Tom Wessels.  Bill McKibben wrote, “What a fascinating book.  Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Aldo Leopold, it will help thousands of New Englanders…

On the New Hampshire lake where I spend much of the summer, loon calls are so common that I sometimes take them for granted. The sounds of the common loon (Gavia immer) are iconic of wilderness and…

Reader Tammis Coffin shared this photo, from Maine’s Baxter State Park, of some fluffy-looking white matter on a tree branch. What is this?

Insects, spiders, and flowers were frequent subjects for your July photos, as were water scenes. In Wilmington, New York, Bekky Honkala encountered an iridescent dogbane leaf beetle on its host plant,…

Brett Butler pursued a career in forestry because he loves being in the woods, but during a research trip in college, he started to realize that forestry is as much about people as it is about trees.…

Legendary Connecticut State Forester Austin Hawes called it “the most perfect mixture of the northern and southern New England forest types” he had ever seen. The Carrington Phelps…

Among summer’s many sweet offerings are wild berries. And among these, blueberries are my favorite. Years ago, I took to carrying large, empty yogurt containers in my car – and smaller…

The modern world is filled with plastic in part because plastic is, well, plastic: flexible and moldable, polymers can be formed into a seemingly infinite variety of shapes. Aluminum, too, has its…

Dear Friends, Every day, Northern Woodlands distributes scientific and natural resource information to meet a perennial public need for environmental literacy and basic understanding of forest issues.…

For many people, home is not one spot on the landscape, it can be many places. In A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, archaeologist Robert Goodby, a professor of anthropology at…

Manic whistles rose from the woods at the edge of the lawn. The hair prickled along the back of my neck as I pressed my face to the cool porch screen and peered into the dark. “He’s…

Hillary Waters Fayle is a Virginia-based textile artist known for her delicate botanical constructs. Working with found leaves and rudimentary tools – needle and thread, and Exacto knives…