A few times a year, I bring groups of people into the woods to search for red-backed salamanders in the damp netherworld that is the forest floor. Last spring, it was 8th graders. They did their best…

I have been helping to mow our fields these last weeks of August, making long work out of what could be done by an experienced operator in a few days. This mowing is far from Robert Frost’s…

The photographer was drawn to this tree (in mid-July, on a rich site) by a loud hum coming from its canopy. What’s the tree species, and why was its canopy humming?

Yesterday evening, a bat found its way into the Northern Woodlands building and flew into my office. It careened around the room for several revolutions and then (as far as I know) found its way…

Sean Beckett, who will teach a photography workshop at this year’s Northern Woodlands Conference, shared this image of Sterling Falls near Stowe, Vermont. Sean is the Staff Naturalist at North…

If there’s one place you’d expect to see a sandpiper, it’s on the sand. However, there is one member of this family of shorebirds that prefers streamside to surfside. Almost any time…

Chris is a life-long resident of Connecticut who grew up in that time when parents shooed kids out of the house...and the woods and hills were inviting. As an adult, the allure of trees and topography…

Bob is a retired partner in the Boston law firm Casner & Edwards, LLP. There, he concentrated his practice on the affairs of nonprofit organizations. This work included tax, general corporate,…

Ben is a traveling composer-performer whose music explores themes of landscape, place, and environment in North America. Ben has performed in every U.S. state except Delaware and Hawaii, and held…

John was born in inner-city Detroit, grew up on the west side of Cleveland, and is Dartmouth Class of 1964.  He attended University of Michigan Medical School, where he and his wife, Karen, met.…

After a passing shower, when the sun comes out again, I often see a rainbow in the east behind my house, arching over the trees on the hilltop. Ancient peoples were awed by these multi-colored arcs in…

What does this hemlock branch, beech sapling, and hunting camp have in common?

Recently, subscriber Diana Hayes encountered a group from the Vermont Loon Conservation Project at Quimby Camp in Averill, Vermont. Diana was pleased to see biologist Eric Hanson in this outing; she…

Perhaps not surprisingly, given the extreme hot weather, many of your July images were taken near water. In Groton, Massachusetts, juvenile herons crowded the nest, while out in the Adirondacks, a…

A regular chore of mine is to dispose of the mice and moles trapped in our home. I place them on a 4 x 5-foot patch of dirt and rock – which I have named the grave site – beside my…

“Through imagery that shifts between disintegration and integration, I intend to communicate the nature of memory while summoning up the place I most love.” —KATE EMLEN Kate…

Small, maneuverable four-wheel-drive tractors create an opportunity for woodlot owners to do more of their own forest management work. Since these types of tractors are primarily designed for…

A good friend was in touch; her son was enduring allergic reactions to mosquitoes and, like any good parent, she sought solutions. I told her that the most practical, non-toxic way to deal with the…

Deep in a Vermont forest, we discovered these gift-wrapped tips of Christmas ferns, and only Christmas ferns, among other nearby growing fern species. Who did it?

When she was young, Pam Wells aspired to be a forester. It was the late 1970s, and as she now wryly recalls, “I was not encouraged, as a woman.” So she directed her smarts and considerable…