Lyme, NH – The Center for Northern Woodlands Education (CNWE) has named Jackson Saul as Executive Director of the environmental nonprofit. CNWE is best known as the publisher of Northern…

Jackson Saul, who goes by Jack, is a graduate of Williams College and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Alabama. He grew up working on his family’s tree…

Reader Ken Hatch found this small, green, spiky thing on a leaf near the White River in central Vermont. What is it?

This week in the woods, we didn’t have to venture far for a great nature photography opportunity. We found an American redstart nest in a stand of yard lilacs and set up a remote (no flash or…

If you’re looking for warblers on a walk in the summer woods, your first instinct might be to look toward the canopy. But two closely related warbler species forgo those elevated environs for…

This week in the woods, we’ve reached summer’s second act. Spring blooming plants are producing seeds and fruits, and suddenly, butterflies seem to be everywhere. Monarchs aren’t the…

Road crews across the United States use more than 24 million tons of road salt (sodium chloride) to melt ice and snow each year – triple the volume used in 1975. Road salt is cost-effective and…

A staff member found a mass of these bulbous pink formations on the stems and leaves of a wild grape vine in Thetford, Vermont. What are they, what makes them, and why?

Daniel Mason is a physician, author, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. His most recent book, North Woods (2023), is a work of historical fiction that tells the story of a…

This week in the woods, the torrential rains over the past few days have been a hardship for nesting birds, threatening both ground nests and, to a lesser degree, nests in trees. We found three vireo…

Black birds with a greenish sheen and brown heads sometimes visit my yard during spring migration. These are male brown-headed cowbirds, and they often arrive in mixed flocks of red-winged blackbirds…

Turning Stones looks at the mysteries and life found in fresh water. The essays in this volume explore the diversity of life that depends on water and examine a range of life forms before looking to…

Since moving our nonprofit headquarters to Lyme, New Hampshire, we’ve wanted to replace our front lawn with a native plant pollinator garden. This year, thanks to the Jack & Dorothy Byrne…

This week in the woods, we found a family of fish crows rummaging in the vegetation along a river bank. Fish crows are slightly smaller than American crows but otherwise very difficult to distinguish…

Last July, I crossed paths with an insect that looked like the living embodiment of my favorite drawing game. Using folded paper, players add to a communal image without seeing previous contributions,…

Reader Jude Eldridge shared this photo (taken by her husband, Bill Duffy) of flies stuck to the underside of a beech leaf. What’s happening here?

Alissa Wetherbee grew up exploring and working in the woods on Maine’s Mount Desert Island – home of Acadia National Park. In her early 20s, Alissa discovered logging sports competitions…

We were happily overwhelmed by the quality and diversity of images submitted for May. Thank you to everyone who submitted photos for consideration! Selected images included painted trilliums,…

This week in the woods, we enjoyed our office backyard “moth ball” with lepidopterist JoAnne Russo, who identified a whopping 86 different moth species flitting through the night sky of…