Bill Gould, a member of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, and Reid Schwarz, a woodworker and toolmaker, launched their first birchbark canoe onto local waters in New Hampshire in the…

I put the small brown ant I had mounted (but never identified) under a microscope and peered down at it. Two huge, headlight-like eyes stared back at me. That couldn’t be right; ants don’t…

This Week in the Woods, it’s common nighthawk migration season, and in what has become an annual tradition, Tig Tillinghast staked out a local dam site and riverside fields at dusk to photograph…

This issue features The Future of Forestry in the Penobscot Watershed, Rivers Reconnected, Sowing the Seeds of Hope, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit Subscription Services to…

Hikers climbing the Northeast’s highest peaks will traverse several different vegetative zones along the way. On the summits, they’ll likely encounter plants so hardy that many also grow…

This Week in the Woods, we found patches of cardinal flower blooming along the Connecticut River. As noted in this profile from The Native Plant Trust, these vivid summer wildflowers – which…

Harvey Brotman’s career experience has spanned work as a blacksmith, an inn manager, a writer of software manuals, and an IT business owner. For the past 40 or so years, he’s also been a…

Reader John Ford of Laconia, New Hampshire, shared the top photo of “strange deposits on a beech tree” the same day Jim Cummings of Kennebunk, Maine, sent in the bottom photo of a similar…

The opossums that show up on my students’ trail cameras at Saint Michael’s College sometimes look out of place, with their naked tails and frostbitten ears that seem so poorly suited to…

This Week in the Woods, we were very surprised when a barred owl alit on a branch just a few feet from us, on a frequently-walked trail. It called once, then swiveled its head to track something…

I was sitting poolside with my children one summer day when another parent hustled her son out of the water because of a swimming cockroach. The “cockroach” turned out to be a giant water…

This Week in the Woods, we encountered a beaver just as it clambered up from a lower impoundment and splashed back into the water. This is a fun time to visit a beaver pond, to observe how the animals…

Many of your July photos had a fungal theme, from Jay Remington’s crowd of Amanitas, to Dan Zucker’s toga mantleslug lounging on a mushroom. Insects – pollinators and otherwise…

The barred owl’s call is often described as sounding like Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all? Owls don’t cook at all, of course, but this one (photographed by reader Sandy Dannis) has a meal…

With a degree in biology from Colgate University, Kelly French embarked on a career in clinical diagnostics and experimental medicinal research. After four years of working in a lab and daydreaming…

Ants play a vital role in the health of forested ecosystems as seed dispersers, decomposers of wood and leaves, aerators of soil via their nesting and tunneling, recyclers of nutrients, and more. As…

The drought that most of New England experienced last summer and fall is likely to slow the growth of white pines and red oaks this year. That’s the prediction from a University of New Hampshire…

Dragonfly larvae have long been considered an indicator of good water quality because many species require clear, clean water to thrive. Finding any of those species in a water body suggests that the…

In his most recent outing, author William Bryant Logan travels far afield to rediscover the lost tradition of coppice culture – a neglected land management system that fueled human life for…

Anyone who has turned to nature as a balm to an emotional wound – or to seek inspiration for how to live – will likely find relatable content in Michael Tougias’ memoir, The Waters…