Historic Barn Made New
Senior Housing Renovation Supports Local Timber Suppliers
Carpenter and writer Adam Miller recently completed the timber framing portion of a barn that is undergoing renovation in Lyme, New Hampshire. The project is part of a small senior housing development…
Saving Butternut
Native butternut, Juglans cinerea, is steadily disappearing from the woods of North America due to butternut canker, a non-native fungus (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) that was…
Splitting the Air: The Unexpected Chemistry of Lightning
To say that lightning “splits” the sky is no mere poetry. A single stroke contains about one billion joules of energy, roughly 280 kilowatt-hours of electricity, and could power a modern…
Lights, Bait, and Staying up Late
The invitation was irresistible. I was chatting with Dave Small, president of the Athol Bird & Nature Club, who’d just given a winter lecture on moths. The images he’d shared were…
The Big Boom: 100 Years on the Upper Hudson
Ernie Brooks got his men out and rolling well before dawn at his Mud Lake lumber camp deep in the Adirondacks. A longtime lumberman from Speculator in Hamilton County, Brooks logged near hermit French…
Three Cinquains
Poecile atricapillus Winking The wanderer Wonders over my work As I split oak and he in song Marks time. Strix varia Child who Innocence calls Sagelike to the moonlight, Night’s huntsmen fill…
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This issue features Lake Champlain Watershed, Framing with Ancient Timbers, Solace Through Fly Fishing, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit Subscription Services to subscribe to our…
Coffin Honey
Todd Davis’s poetry asks to be read aloud, in the woods or streamside. I’ve carried his books into the spitting snow of a March lambing paddock, read them perched on ash stumps atop the…
America’s Bountiful Waters
150 Years of Fisheries Conservation and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fisheries science is often conducted out of sight – in salt marshes and southern bayous, in the hatchery and the lab.…
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Several years ago, on a wet March morning, more than a hundred robins appeared in my upper pasture, everywhere and hungry. They dashed about the sorry-looking grass, stooping, pecking, swallowing…