In a big mast year for oak trees, it seems like there’s a constant barrage of acorns thwacking roofs, parked cars, and – sometimes – unsuspecting humans. These falling nuts can seem…

Charley Eiseman grew up in central Massachusetts, surrounded by woods, with a small pond nearby. He credits that setting, and his mother’s long involvement in conservation work, for his career…

Maine State Entomologist Allison Kanoti shared this image with us. Although these two things may appear to be similar – and they were found side by side on a cherry tree – they are actually very…

Stefan Mancuso would like all of us to pay more attention to trees. He’s a plant neurobiologist (a self-proclaimed “botany nerd”) who teaches at the University of Florence. In Tree…

As a young woman and Asian American urbanite, I defy almost every expectation of who an American hunter should be. So I was both captivated and inspired by Brant MacDuff’s nonfiction book The…

In Mason Goes Mushrooming, author Melany Kahn and her young protagonist, Mason, take readers on a series of imaginary foraging adventures, and every walk is a treasure hunt. Each adventure teaches a…

When it comes to winter in the North Country, brown is not beautiful. Climate change has brought sudden and extreme fluctuations in weather along with a dramatic decline in the amount of snowfall that…

This week in the woods, we discovered this pileated woodpecker excavation in a dead tree, with wood chips and dislodged tinder polypore conks scattered around the tree’s base. If you look…

This Week in the Woods, we finally climbed up a steep hillside to collect photos from a game camera near a log, where different species urinate, rub scent glands, and otherwise leave their calling…

Last February, several evening grosbeaks, which we rarely see here, visited our feeder. About the size of robins, the males were yellow with black and white wings, a black tail, and a bright yellow…

January is typically the month when we get the most ice photos from readers. From Carolyn Wheeler’s feathery bubble ice to Susan Lichty’s ice ball stem, there are many odd and beautiful…

Writers in the Woods, a companion series to our Community Voices interviews, focuses on authors and artists whose work relates to the forests of the Northeast. For the first interview in the series,…

A Northern Woodlands staff member found this creature crawling across a sunny patch of Vermont woods in late February, 2021. What is it?

This week in the woods, we took a walk along the Ompompanoosuc River, where this winter’s ongoing temperature swings have created debris fields of ice shards. These start during a thaw as the…