Some now call it “The Great Loon Die-off of 1983,” in which nearly 10,000 common loons washed up on the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas. Those found alive were…

On September 25, Lora Nielsen, our Administrative Coordinator, attended the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. What follows is her report. There’s nothing like a country fair on a crisp, fall…

This selection of fallen leaves was gathered near our office in Corinth, Vermont. Name all six species.

When in college decades ago, I took a botany course from a professor who lectured in a monotone and who believed the best way to learn about bryophytes—mosses and liverworts—was by rote.…

Like Hagenbuch, Laurie Richmond was interested in learning more about the impact that forestry practices have on wildlife. Earlier research had shown that forest harvesting can cause significant…

Dwight Garner wrote an entertaining book review in the New York Times recently on Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s new book: The Hidden Lives of Deer. You can read it online at The Books of the…

These sparkling stones(?) were found in a southern Vermont trout stream. What are they?

As a thirty-something year old guy who came of age in the boom years of the 1990s, I’ve been bombarded with advertising pretty much since the day I was born. That I grew up in a small town in…

A small brown object dropped as I swung open the door to our garage loft.  Before I could process what I had glimpsed, the thing unfurled black, umbrella-like wings, swooped to the wall and clung…

Henry David Thoreau looms over us from the depths of history, a towering person, important we’re told, a giant of his age, yet vaguely threatening, unpleasantly Puritanical, and more than a…

Depending on the time of year, the seeds from this plant can be green or red. What in the woods is it?

On calendars and on magazine covers, autumn is usually rendered glossy and exhilarating: the foliage always neon orange against azure skies, humans and their fall chores the cheerful equivalent of…

Each fall I spend quiet time in the woods getting reacquainted with – yes, you guessed it – Paraclemensia acerifoliella. OK, I admit you may not know Paraclemensia acerifoliella. But if…

A considerable amount of research has been conducted about the impact of timber management on bird habitat, but few if any scientific studies have examined how management for non-timber forest…

No, it’s not an alien life-form; and that’s all the help I’m giving you. What in the woods is it?

If we could afford to do it, we’d make the Letters to the Editor section of the magazine 20 pages long. Our readers are the lifeblood of our publication, and their thoughts add depth and breadth…

Ferns reward a close look. Their beauty is easy to appreciate from afar – the way a bed of ferns catches the sunlight filtering down among the trees, splashing bright green on the forest floor,…

Dave Anderson was hiking along a telephone line right-of-way near Long Pond in Lempster, New Hampshire, when he noticed a telephone pole that was completely snapped off and was hanging suspended from…

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…

An Atlas of the Connecticut River Watershed in Vermont and New Hampshire The Connecticut River divides and connects the Twin States yet borders the less-populated side of both. As a result, the…