In case you missed the memo, the double-bit cruiser axe is back in vogue – and commanding respectable prices both from online vendors and at flea markets. So, just what is a…

When I was 10 years old, fishing an inlet off the river behind our family’s animal hospital, I caught a snapping turtle of considerable size. At that point in my angling life, I used a…

Biologist Barry Wicklow spotted this gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor) nestled against the greenish foliose lichen (Parmelia sulcata) on a tree during an aquatic ecology study. “These frogs…

The rhythm of producing a seasonal quarterly magazine often has us thinking a season or two – or more – ahead, and occasionally I momentarily lose track of what season it is “in real…

This past winter, my partner and I became first-time owners of forestland – 30 acres of mixed hardwoods dominated by sugar maple on a north-facing ridge in Vershire, Vermont. In the months…

Join us at the Norwich Bookstore for an evening with the authors of Tending Your Forest: A Guide to Ecological Forest Stewardship in the Eastern and Central United States. Paul Catanzaro and Anthony…

Kevin Porter is Principal of Resilient Capital Solutions, a consulting and advisory firm dedicated to scaling financing for sustainability, clean energy, and community development.  Kevin has…

If you live near a large meadow, hayfield, or grassland, you may have recently noticed some bubbly robotic noises emanating from those areas. It might sound like an overexcited android, but the real…

This week in the woods has us admiring our great variety of warblers, either settling in for the summer or passing through for points north. The small, needle-billed, bug-eating neotropical migrants…

Our readers shared some memorable wildlife sightings and signs of spring in this month’s gallery. Karen Suhrhoff shared two adorable photos of a local fox family in South Portland, Maine;…

A bog is a special natural community, characterized by deep, wet, and acidic soil below an open sky. Soft sphagnum mosses squish underfoot, dominating the surface of the bog and making up the mostly…

We found this large, distinctive bud opening up in a hardwood forest in the Champlain Valley. What tree species is this?

Jessica Snyder is a state and federally licensed falconer who works in Woodstock, Vermont. Jessica has taught at New England Falconry for more than 10 years and has worked with birds of prey for more…

One of the great joys of early May in the Northeast is the dawn-break aubade of songbirds returning to summer habitats or passing through to their nesting grounds in higher latitudes. Mornings that…

Ryan Mandelbaum is a science writer, naturalist, and birder living in New York City. They write a monthly newsletter dedicated to birds and wildlife in the city and wrote the book Wild NYC, a guide to…

Reader Will Durkin found these eggs on the ground of an open field in Waterford, Vermont. What animal laid them?

This week in the woods marks the waning days of some of our earliest-blooming spring ephemerals. The region has two spring beauty species – Carolina spring beauty (Claytonia caroliniana, with…

On a recent walk through a woodland strewn with underfoot color, my rapt gaze floated, like a bumblebee queen on her first foray after winter, from trout lilies to trilliums to spring beauties, all…

This week in the woods, we continue through the period between the loss of snow cover and the canopy closing. In this window, before light becomes too limited, spring ephemerals can complete their…

Spring is often portrayed as the season of rebirth, and for many organisms it is. But spring is also the season of reawakening for those species that spend the winter in some form of hibernation or…