One recent morning, trying to find the source of a warbler trill high in a white pine tree, I was rewarded with a brilliant flash of orange. It was my first sighting of a Blackburnian warbler, one of…

This week in the woods, one-flowered wintergreen popped up everywhere in a shaded Topsham, Vermont, pine stand but didn’t want to grant us the privilege of seeing its face unless we got down on…

This week in the woods, one-flowered wintergreen popped up everywhere in a shaded Topsham, Vermont, pine stand but didn’t want to grant us the privilege of seeing its face unless we got down on…

The river roars in the heat of the summer. The water is clear and cool, and a respite from the high sun. An angler leans back, fly-fishing rod in hand, and casts it forward. The fly drops and sinks…

Our favorite party of the year is back! Lepidopterist JoAnne Russo will once again transform our backyard into a moth stage. We invite you to observe, learn, and celebrate our local moths. Bring a…

This week in the woods, in anticipation of Friday's third-annual Moth Ball at the Northern Woodlands offices in Lyme, we’re looking at some lepidoptera (three moths and a butterfly for good…

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One…

Scudder Parker has lived in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for more than 70 years. He was a Protestant minister for two decades, a state senator for eight years, and a candidate for governor. He was…

This week in the woods, our boots squelched as we made our way to a colony of twinflowers spreading beside a wetland in Strafford, Vermont. This weak woody “subshrub” – or what the…

Welcome to another season in our pollinator garden! This spring has brought fresh blooms, eager visitors, and a few improvements to help the garden thrive – including a new stone border and…

This spiky meadowsweet was found walking in a field. What creates this spiky form?

Your May photos captured green frogs, brilliantly colored birds, and a splendid variety of blooming plants. Who can resist a cute, juvenile red squirrel in a moment of stillness such as the one…

From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across the pond: drink-your-tea! This is not a British parent’s plea, but…

In the introduction of Tree Trek: A Daughter’s Walk Through Grief, Stephanie Mirocha writes, “This book is the story of losing my father, that pillar of my life, and of trees, the silent…

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria is simultaneously a memoir, a natural history guide, a climate change manifesto, and an enthusiastic celebration of biodiversity and queerness in the…

Unsurprisingly, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s is about trees – the 100-foot white pines destined to be felled for construction materials, the bent limbs of trees that “make a…

This week in the woods, a number of plants showed their floral faces through the curtains of other leafy wetland growth. Three long twisted “flags” (a sepal up top and petals to the side)…

John is a Business Affairs Attorney in the New York-based Publications Department of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the talent and literary agency. He negotiates directly with publishers in their…

Dear Friends, From 5 PM Tuesday, June 10, to 5 PM Wednesday, June 11, we’re joining hundreds of nonprofits across the state for NH Gives — a 24-hour online giving event celebrating the…