Dave Allard grew up in Lyndonville, Vermont with a father who never said no. This meant something different back then. When Dave wanted to build a sugarhouse at age 12, his father didn’t say…

During the heat of mid-summer, when birds are often quiet and well-hidden, I turn my attention to dragonflies. Because they are sturdy bodied insects with wings that are not easily damaged (unlike…

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The Place You Call Home is a series of “owner’s manuals” for people who own land in the greater Northern Forest region of New England and New York. Each manual includes how-to…

The Northern Woodlands Goes to School (NWGTS) program connects classroom teachers and homeschools in the K-12 setting with free subscriptions to Northern Woodlands magazine. (Digital access included.)…

Earlier this year, we decided to experiment with the “NPR funding model,” seeking underwriting support from organizations that share our educational mission. The results of that decision…

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Pack a lunch, climb a mountain, and witness thousands of hawks gliding south over hills blazing with fall foliage. If only this romanticized rite of autumn were so easy. If only migrating hawks…

Plants are not often thought of as predators. They’re the nice guys. With over 300,000 species known to exist, only a small fraction are known to be meat-eaters. In our northern bogs, for…

This mysterious green slime was found growing outside Bill Peberdy’s woodshop in Corinth, Vermont. What is it?

My grandfather on my father’s side came from Dutch/German/Irish stock who settled in New York’s Shawangunk Mountains several hundred years ago. If you’ve never been to the…

At age 12, Paul Reed plunked down $275 for a new Jonsered, his first chainsaw. The boy’s father ran a small sideline firewood business, and while dad had spare chainsaws, of course, Paul wanted…

I went to Northeastern Wyoming a few weeks back; vague childhood memories of Devil’s Tower and Yellowstone did nothing to prepare me for just how different the landscape is out there. There are…

The demise of the local sawmill has been closely followed by the rise of the sawyer with a portable bandsaw mill. Usually the sawyer will come to your house, set the mill up parallel to your log…

One for the Ages: Hurricane of 1938 Life in Your Logs Paying for State Wildlife Conservation Getting to the Bottom of the Scrape and much more

If you’ve ever tried to grow a tree from a single seed, and failed, you’ll probably want to know how the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery manages to grow about a quarter of a million…

As the summer bird chorus wanes, we might remember that song can arrive in unexpected ways. Drumming heads, clacking bills, and dancing feet create nonvocal sound. Even flight, that foremost avian…

Intensely personal poetry only works if readers can recognize something of themselves, or some universal truth, or something fun or beautiful in the prose. If it’s there, the poet and reader…

There’s something about wilderness rescues and mishaps that seems to bring out the voyeur in many of us. Are we drawn to the cautionary tale, fascinated by the raw power of nature and the…

Craig Mooney is a master of atmospheric perspective. He manipulates his oil paints to reflect the effect that weather, atmosphere, and shifting light have on the appearance of a place. Mooney paints…