With a flat edge for effortless stirring, tossing, cutting, and serving, this wooden utensil is as versatile as it is beautiful. Gentle on nonstick surfaces, it’s a cook’s everyday…

As the child of a military family, Janel Lawton moved often as a kid, including stints in Key West, Florida, rural Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and urban New Jersey. She opted to attend college in New…

Invasive plants impact the ecological integrity and timber production potential of forests. One particularly problematic species is glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus). A shade-tolerant, fast-growing…

Land protection has increased in recent decades parallel with development pressures. Town leaders struggling to balance budgets and to provide services often resist conservation because of perceived…

The northeastern population of moose, subspecies Alces alces americana, declined during the nineteenth century as a result of hunting and forest clearing for agriculture. Hunting regulation and…

How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods Brett McLeod’s The Woodland Homestead gives you all the tools and information you need to sustainably use your…

With its short handle and gently curved bowl, this spoon is designed for precision – perfect for scraping every last bit from the bowl. The close grip brings you right into the mix. Measures…

In late autumn, well past the showy blossoms of summer, after even fall’s late bloomers have faded and the trees have dropped their leaves, there is one shrubby plant still putting on a flower…

This week in the woods, we discovered a gooey mess, and also an excuse to use the word deliquescence. The word, as applied to fungi, describes a process of self-destruction in which a mushroom…

“Look!” I exclaimed, bending to examine a pair of half-inch-tall, bright orange, club-shaped mushrooms. Kneeling in the leaf litter, with my 2-year-old son watching in puzzlement, I…

This week in the woods, we stumbled into a group of about ten oil beetles (Meleo genus) that had probably come together to mate. These iridescent beetles with undersized, ant-like heads, live up to…

The yellow orange fly agaric (Amanita muscaria var. formosa) is common in the Northeast, especially where conifers grow. While this mushroom is often a bright red color in much of its range –…

Reader Kirk Gentalen shared this photo, snapped in the woods of Mid-Coast Maine after a rainy day in early fall. What is this?

About 11 years ago, Rebecca McCabe began volunteering at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Kempton, Pennsylvania, as a college biology student. After completing her studies, then earning a master’s…

This September, everything was coming up slime molds. And dragonflies, with a side of frogs. In New Boston, New Hampshire, Bill-lee Abbott discovered a beautiful specimen of Xanthotype moth. In…

Ben Cosgrove returned to the Lyme Congregational Church for a lovely night of music. A composer, pianist, and multi- instrumentalist from New England, Ben’s music straddles the line between…

This week in the woods, we were surprised to find American goldfinches feeding on something – we’re not sure what – among the dead leaves that had accumulated on top of a derelict…

On an October day years ago, my husband and I were canoeing on a pond in the Green Mountain National Forest. We heard crashing in the bushes along the shoreline just before a magnificent bull moose…

Young striped skunks such as this little one — photographed by a remote wildlife camera near a barn this week — disperse from their families in autumn. Skunks tend to be solitary, although…

In May of this year, when a cottonwood measuring nearly 3 ½ feet in diameter and more than 100 feet tall fell across a trail in the Saint Michael’s College Natural Area, I saw the event…