This photo was taken in Strafford, Vermont. What is the name of this donut-like snow formation, and what caused it?

Joshua Morse has spent the better part of the last decade studying the outdoors, the environment, and some of the things that live in the woods. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and a…

Your February photos showed mostly quiet scenes. “Snow moons” were favorite photo subjects, and dogs were also well represented (Happy Birthday, Cruiser!). In Warwick, New York, Steven…

For the past several years, we’ve included a quiz with our nonprofit’s autumn fundraising appeal, based on articles in the magazine, essays in The Outside Story series, and content in our…

On a picture-perfect winter morning last year, 20 Saint Michael’s College students and I visited Vermont Fish and Wildlife scientists for ice fishing at Knight’s Point on Lake Champlain.…

Often, I jest that my husband David and I bought our woodlot as a shared “midlife crisis.” But rather than a passing fancy, stewarding our forestland has truly become an integral part of…

Killingly Intermediate School in Dayville, Connecticut, has participated in Harvard Forest’s Our Changing Forest program since 2018. Seventh-graders take measurements and make observations in a…

Geoff Dennis took this photo during a migratory fallout on Monhegan Island. On May 17, 2011, flocks of warblers, flying over the Gulf of Maine on their way to northern forests, were caught in severe…

I wake in darkness, and spend a full five minutes trying to decide why. The tip of my nose is frozen where it protrudes from the icy hole of my sleeping bag. The rest of me is marginally warmer but…

Young campers caught this blue morph green frog at Townshend State Park in Vermont, where Tiffany Soukup and her husband Chris served as rangers. In blue morph frogs, a genetic mutation prevents the…

Above our field, the land dips and rises, and in the fold there’s a vernal pool. It’s well shaded and slow to thaw, and this time of year, it serves as the family rink. The kids take…

Our readers often have questions about old-growth forests: what they are, how to identify them, their relevance to climate change mitigation, and (absent a time machine) how to replicate their…

Mitch Ryerson is an artist, designer, and craftsman of fine furniture. In recent years, he has also created play structures for schools and parks. He uses Berkshires-sourced black locust for this…

Seed, Transplant, or Just Let Nature Take Its Course? Some Considerations. As I walk through my woods in spring and early summer, I usually stick to the trails. I want to avoid stepping on any of the…

Lumberjack contests have evolved from loosely organized gatherings to highly competitive sports events with an international following. Today’s top competitors train intensely to master skills…

A Conversation with Champion Lumberjill Kendall Kunelius by Mark Kuney; Restoring Wildflowers to the Woods by Joe Rankin; New England K-9 Search & Rescue by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul; Z Shape Legs…

The Confusing History of New England’s Arctic Char, and Current Efforts to Conserve Them My earliest memory of fishing is of my father baiting a hook for me with a small piece of slab bacon as I…

Reader Asheley Cole sent us a photograph of a January scene on the Green River near her home. Intrigued, we asked her for more images, and she shared this series, showing the river in different…

Every once in a while, as I’m tramping through the winter woods on my snowshoes, it occurs to me that I am walking on top of frogs. In winter, our thoughts naturally turn to the species who…

Art Krueger and his wife Trish Norton have been making and selling maple syrup from their Krueger-Norton Sugarhouse in Shrewsbury, Vermont, for more than three decades. By Vermont standards, their…