On several days throughout summer, a small flotilla of canoes and kayaks gathers on Tilton Pond in central Maine, on the hunt for an uninvited carnivorous plant that has taken hold: swollen…

In one year, Steve Wheeler put 35,000 miles on his new Chevy pickup. You might think Wheeler has a punishing commute, or perhaps family members scattered across the country. But he racked up most of…

For millennia, a group of prehistoric fishes have been swimming the rivers, lakes, and coastal waters of northeastern North America. These fish – some of them approaching a leviathan-esque 15…

At first look, Sherrie York’s linocut Tern of the Tide is reminiscent of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic woodcut print The Great Wave (c. 1830). But unlike Hokusai’s piece, York includes…

All spring the tree frogs peeped in the dark, except those seeming lost in the grass by the wooden steps, their bodies like paper. I would let the dog out the back door at night and walk alone up the…

As I was prepping my fall invertebrate zoology course, a colleague mentioned that a local berry farmer had scraped mud dauber wasp nests off an outbuilding and suggested these would be of interest to…

Black raspberries, along with raspberries and blackberries, are among the berries that grow on brambles in the Northeast. Also called blackcaps, black raspberries are the most shade tolerant and…

Every forest tells a story of disturbance. The trees growing today reflect past hurricanes, abandoned farm fields, insect outbreaks, timber harvests, and even retreating glaciers. Forest succession is…

In case you missed the memo, the double-bit cruiser axe is back in vogue – and commanding respectable prices both from online vendors and at flea markets. So, just what is a…

When I was 10 years old, fishing an inlet off the river behind our family’s animal hospital, I caught a snapping turtle of considerable size. At that point in my angling life, I used a…

Biologist Barry Wicklow spotted this gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor) nestled against the greenish foliose lichen (Parmelia sulcata) on a tree during an aquatic ecology study. “These frogs…

The rhythm of producing a seasonal quarterly magazine often has us thinking a season or two – or more – ahead, and occasionally I momentarily lose track of what season it is “in real…

This past winter, my partner and I became first-time owners of forestland – 30 acres of mixed hardwoods dominated by sugar maple on a north-facing ridge in Vershire, Vermont. In the months…

Join us at the Norwich Bookstore for an evening with the authors of Tending Your Forest: A Guide to Ecological Forest Stewardship in the Eastern and Central United States. Paul Catanzaro and Anthony…

Kevin Porter is Principal of Resilient Capital Solutions, a consulting and advisory firm dedicated to scaling financing for sustainability, clean energy, and community development.  Kevin has…

If you live near a large meadow, hayfield, or grassland, you may have recently noticed some bubbly robotic noises emanating from those areas. It might sound like an overexcited android, but the real…

This week in the woods has us admiring our great variety of warblers, either settling in for the summer or passing through for points north. The small, needle-billed, bug-eating neotropical migrants…

Our readers shared some memorable wildlife sightings and signs of spring in this month’s gallery. Karen Suhrhoff shared two adorable photos of a local fox family in South Portland, Maine;…

A bog is a special natural community, characterized by deep, wet, and acidic soil below an open sky. Soft sphagnum mosses squish underfoot, dominating the surface of the bog and making up the mostly…

We found this large, distinctive bud opening up in a hardwood forest in the Champlain Valley. What tree species is this?