This is the time of year when my yard feels bursting with life, as the neighborhood welcomes eastern phoebes, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and broad-winged hawks back from their long migrations. At the…

This week in the woods, white spotted sables have been showing up in meadows and (as in this photo) unmowed lawns. These tiny (about 2-centimeter wingspan) daytime moths will be flying until July.…

This issue features Forest Soil Carbon, Hummingbirds & Cardinal Flowers, Slash Walls, MillionTrees NYC, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit Subscription Services to subscribe to our…

The best writers, whether they focus on fiction or truth, are first and foremost storytellers. Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx is among the best. In her slim volume, Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short…

At the age of 49, Susan Fox Rogers had reached an inflection point in life, single and with no children, both parents recently passed away, and immersed in a happy teaching and writing career at Bard…

I grew up on a large tree farm in western Connecticut, and my family’s backyard tree nursery was surrounded by northern white-cedars. White-tailed deer browsed the trees’ lower branches,…

We’ve all heard the idiom, “The early bird gets the worm.” When it comes to invasive jumping worms, unfortunately, there are more than enough to go around. These invasive worms can…

This Week in the Woods we were excited to find a Canada warbler. These are exceptionally beautiful birds – especially the males, with their dramatic black necklaces – but they can be hard…

Readers shared a bumper crop of images for the April gallery, resulting in some difficult choices for the editors! Your photos included early spring wildflowers, amphibian eggs, waterfalls, and early…

While out pulling invasive garlic mustard, we found what looks like a weird purple carrot sprouting from the leaf litter. What is this?

A member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Jessica Raspitha started working with the tribe’s Environment Division as an intern during her college years, and has been a full-time employee since…

While planting the vegetable garden last May, I heard a repeated bird song emanating from the adjacent raspberry patch: “Pleased, pleased, pleased to MEETCHA.” Finally, the small songster…

This week in the woods and fields, we’ve been chasing tiny butterflies. There are two very similar looking species of yellow sulphur butterflies in the air right now, orange sulphurs and clouded…

The boreal forest encircles the northern hemisphere from Alaska to Russia to Scandinavia to Labrador, making up almost one-quarter of global forest area and containing more than a third of global…

For decades, acid rain was one of the biggest problems affecting northern forests, the focus of extensive research and advocacy in the latter decades of the twentieth century. The fact that acid rain…

First identified in 1998, the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has infected more than 1,300 amphibian species in the last decade and led to the population decline of more than 200 frog…

Hear ye, hear ye! The queens have emerged! We’re talking about bumble bees (genus Bombus). For several weeks each spring, any bumble bee you see is a queen – and very hard at work. She…

This Week in the Woods, we begin with an announcement: if you were out jogging in Lyme this past Friday morning, and you saw a guy in a car aiming a camera in your direction, don’t worry. He…

This shadowy image appeared on a game camera placed in the Vermont woods. What is it?

From Massachusetts to Florida, the Olympic Peninsula to the Smoky Mountains to New Hampshire, Dawn Dextraze has lived in many places. Wherever she goes, she maintains a strong connection to the…