“In the next years, all of the ash trees in the Hubbard Brook Forest will be deleted,” said Matt Ayres. “We’re in a position to study that with more resolution and baseline…

Editor’s Note: On news of the emerald ash borer’s advancement in the Northeast, we reached out to forester Nicholas Sanchez in Michigan for a glimpse of what a mature infestation looks…

I’ve traveled to Israel many times, but on my most recent trip, I found the forested hills between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem more awe-inspiring than ever. The hills are blanketed in tall pines,…

This slimy, purple mushroom belongs to the genus Cortinarius. With about 2,000 species, it’s the largest genus of mushrooms in the world. Mushrooms in this genus have partial veils, or cortinas…

All foraging is local. Wild food guides are written for audiences that may stretch across a continent, but the edibility and flavor of plants vary from place to place. The common milkweed is a case…

By late May, we are cheered by the melodious songs of birds – birds which, at this time of year, are busy building nests, guarding them, and soon caring for their newborn occupants. But what…

Today's drawing brought some sweet news for Owen Astbury, the winner of our spring raffle for a "Sapling" unit from the Vermont Evaporator Company. The funds from tickets will support our…

One summer we had an ongoing battle with a woodchuck. Unbeknownst to us, it had dug a burrow in an ideal location — in the center of our dense raspberry patch, about 10 feet from our vegetable…

Stone walls are a defining feature of the northeastern landscape, snaking through the woods and fields, across ridges and valleys. They are monuments to life and to lives gone by. We caught up with…

During morel season the south end of the kitchen counter gets commandeered: there’s a maple cutting board, brush, paring knife, bowl for trim, and the day’s take of mushrooms piled on a…

At this organization we will not tolerate a bad word said about the legendary flatpicker Doc Watson. The man was an icon. And yet it can be said – uncomfortably and with downcast eyes, hat in…

This time we have a cross between Where’s Waldo? and Battleship. There’s a woodcock nesting in this photo by Sandy Dannis. Can you tell us which box (number/letter) it’s in?

Photographer Jim Block got this striking shot of an American bittern thanks to a bit of serendipity. “During a group hike on the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Trail 6, I learned about some…

Recently, I mused to a colleague that I wished we had tables sized for our new meeting room. We’re starting to implement an ambitious three-year plan to extend the educational reach of this…

If you were fortunate enough to grow up with freedom to roam outdoors, there are likely certain places that stick with you. For me, one of these places is a thicket of old mountain laurels that my…

Blood Sisters by Jennifer Wise; Seeing the Climate Through the Trees by Joe Rankin; Grazing in the Woods: Bringing Silvopastures to the Northeast by Hallie Metzger; Grave Diggers of the…

A native fungal pathogen that was once considered relatively harmless has become increasingly damaging to eastern white pines since the late 1990s, and stressed, weakened trees appear to be the most…

Most microorganisms that digest and recycle woody material do so by producing enzymes that accelerate chemical reactions to break down molecular compounds in the wood. Brown-rot fungi, the most common…

In 2017, spring peepers appeared in my neighborhood wetlands, on April 16, with trademark enthusiasm, broadcasting sexual exuberance across our narrow, wooded valley … a full-throated,…

The same thought came up frequently as I read Mark Mikolas’s A Beginner’s Guide to Recognizing Trees of the Northeast: I wish I had had this book when I was first learning to identify…