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…

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded worldwide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Rising temperatures associated with climate change have dramatically…

Lepidopterist JoAnne Russo will transform our backyard into a moth stage. We invite you to observe and learn! Bring a camera or cell phone, a head lamp or small flashlight, and some eye protection…

On June 11 - 12 from 5 PM to 5 PM, NH Gives will go live, and we hope you will consider giving to our native plant pollinator garden campaign. NH Gives is a 24-hour period of giving that allows you to…

This week in the woods, we discovered a wild turkey egg tucked within a decaying tree stump and partly covered with moss and wood. To figure out what had happened, we checked with Northern Woodlands…

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice stumbles upon a large mushroom. She peeps over the edge and encounters a caterpillar “smoking a long hookah, and taking not the…

This issue features Future Climate-Adapted Tree Species, TimberHP, Paul Tuller’s One Tree Project, What’s Happening to the Fisher, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit…

The summer I was 23, I lived in a treehouse in the Maine woods. My boyfriend, Curry, and I had just returned to the state after an unsuccessful attempt to start careers in Colorado, near my family.…

August ushers in the season of satiety, an interval of repose. Botanically speaking, it is what I refer to as the “Lammas-time lull,” a dip in the calendar of bloom when the plant world…

If there is an amphibian that is a master of disguise, it has to be the gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor). The adults of this species are capable of changing color (gray, green, or brown) to match their…

This article is the second in a four-part series that focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation in forests. A companion series published last year focused on forest carbon. Alexandra Kosiba, a…

A couple of years ago, I joined colleagues from University of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management for a day of fieldwork studying brook trout (Salvelinus…

The Summer 2024 issue of Northern Woodlands includes an article by Michael Freeman, describing efforts to reduce the impacts of invasive phragmites (also called common reed), an especially aggressive…