The church service was about to begin when some breathless kids pulled me out of my seat to “come see this awesome, pretty, pink-and-yellow, fuzzy baby moth!” on the Sunday school door. It…

The Center for Northern Woodlands Education welcomes people into the woods and into each other’s company. Our focus is communication and our greatest asset is our reputation as an inclusive,…

I usually hear the kingfisher before I see it. If I’m reading by the lake, its harsh, rattling call gets my attention. I look up to see the flashy blue-and-white bird fly to a new perch or hover…

“It’s like loving someone with a terminal disease,” she said, her long, thin fingers brushing the tree’s rivulet bark. Our daughter’s in a front pack on her chest, tiny…

These ferns were observed recently growing on/near calcareous rock. Do you know what species of fern this is?

Very soon, the Autumn 2018 issue of Northern Woodlands will be out. One article you’ll find in its pages is an in-depth exploration of Big Reed Forest Reserve — The Nature…

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Chipmunks and Truffles – A Recipe for a Healthy Forest by John A. Litvaitus; The Wood That Keeps Us Warm by John Lazenby;  Big Reed Forest Reserve: A Place Out of Time by Joe…

If you walk by a pond on a summer evening, you may hear the deep “jug-o-rum” of a bullfrog or the “tung” of a green frog, sounding like a plucked banjo string. Sometimes…

Welcome to the Northern Woodlands Conference! AMC Highland Center | Bretton Woods, New Hampshire | October 23-25, 2026 The Northern Woodlands crew is looking forward to a great weekend with you at the…

"Light is the most important person in the picture." Claude Monet, 1840-1926 founder of French Impressionism For the painter Claude Monet, the effects of light on a subject were as important as the…

If freshwater insects did senior superlatives before graduating from aquatic life, what would yearbook entries say about dobsonflies? Largest? Most ferocious? Most likely to change names? Most likely…

What are these small, skinny, pale green objects scattered on the forest floor?

Your July photos depicted summer in all of its rich color and life.  Flying insects were a frequent theme, including some spectacular images of giant moths, and a cheering number of images of…

Eric D’Aleo is a naturalist at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness, New Hampshire, where a day’s work includes such duties as coyote training, education programs, and a cruise…

Betsy Lesnikoski loved being outdoors as a child in Connecticut in the 1970s, but given her suburban surroundings, she wasn’t sure how to turn that passion into a career. When she mentioned to a…

One afternoon in early June, a small brown bird swooped down in front of our kitchen window. I wondered where it had swooped from when, a minute later, I saw it fly back up, with a sliver of straw in…

Over the past few decades, black-legged tick populations have grown relentlessly throughout much of southern Vermont and New Hampshire, and farther north in the Connecticut and Champlain Valleys.…

What’s using this beech tree as a den?

Recently I found something odd in the grass, and so of course I took it inside to examine under the kitchen microscope. I thought it was some sort of moth cocoon – perhaps a candidate for the…