“Rats with wings,” says Marsha, a student in my field ornithology class, when I point to a pigeon flying overhead. “Pigeons are very interesting birds,” I respond, trying to…

I spent part of yesterday on my belly at the base of a tree with a knife and a length of wire in my hand. I was trying to kill something. The tree was an apple, a Cox’s Orange Pippin to be…

This animal skull was found partially buried in a Vermont hardwood stand. What kind of animal is it?

There’s an artificial quality to a red pine plantation that you don’t find elsewhere in Vermont and New Hampshire, a vibe that stems from the fact that all the trees were put there, by…

People most often climb New England’s high mountains seeking grand views from their treeless summits. But even on the cloudiest days, when the big views are obscured, there are exquisite sights…

Dartmouth College Professor Richard Holmes has been counting caterpillars at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest for more than 20 years. He was mostly interested in understanding the abundance of…

After helping to decipher the genome of the poplar tree in 2006 and finding it had 45,000 different genes, University of Toronto Professor Malcolm Campbell turned to the next logical question: What do…

The push for new wind power facilities across the country is driving research to understand the various ecological impacts wind turbines may have. One such study may play a role in the siting of new…

One day in the next few weeks, you may be walking through a field on a sunny day. You may see a tiny blue butterfly, with wings the size of thumbnails, flitting over the meadowsweet. If you know your…

Our proofreader discovered this strange object in a spruce tree near her home. What in the woods is it?

Editor’s Note: Walter Medwid, the Executive Director of Northern Woodlands, is on blog duty this week. Before joining the team at Northern Woodlands, I served as Executive Director at NorthWoods…

There has been a lot of bad buzz about bee populations lately, mostly about the decline of European honeybees that are used across North America to help pollinate everything from California almonds to…

Readers of Northern Woodlands will be familiar with artist Adelaide Tyrol’s work: her paintings regularly illustrate our Under the Microscope and Species in the Spotlight columns; her work also…

As I was waiting at the shop the other day to pick up my chainsaw, I heard strong words up ahead in line: something about the government and the EPA and ethanol. When my turn came at the counter, the…

While those of us in the print world don’t readily admit it, there’s power in television images that just can’t be replicated in words and still photographs. In light of this, we…

In a state dense with timberland, Maine’s district foresters have a serious challenge providing landowners with timely information about good forestry practices and changes in state law. There…

Three hundred million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the land. The earth they inhabited was hot and humid and covered in vast, swampy forests that today would seem most bizarre. Some of the plants…

Naturalist Mary Holland shared this wonderful picture with us...yup, it's an animal den site. But what kind of animal?

The spin doctors on either side of the bioenergy divide have been hard at work spinning a recently released study on biomass sustainability into whatever the PR equivalent of gold is. A few weeks…

Two months ago a predictable eruption began on the lawn surrounding our house. Rough clumps of rich, dark subsoil appeared upon the still barren ground. “Those **@#$&%** moles again,”…