This issue features The Lombard Log Hauler, Creating a Climate-Resilient Forest at Tug Hill, Bird-Friendly Maple: Sugarbush Management with Birds in Mind, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or…

Making maple syrup and protecting birds that use maple sugarbush as nesting, resting, and foraging habitat can go hand in hand. As a conservation biologist and forester, Steve Hagenbuch knows this…

Even if you’ve never ventured further into the forest than an urban park or a college campus, you’re probably familiar with Sciurus carolinensis, the eastern gray squirrel. While…

My daily walk around my city this fall has been dominated by one plant. It is abundant and leafy with red berries and orange or yellow foliage. It seems to fit in perfectly with a New England autumn…

Chicken of the Woods Earrings pay tribute to a spectacular mushroom that is always a thrill to find. They are handcrafted out of jeweler’s brass and sterling and then hand painted and sealed…

The North Woods Tree Identification Guide features 36 different trees found in North America. One of the easiest ways to identify a tree is by its leaf or needle. Each of the 18 tags, measuring just 1…

The North Woods Wildflower Identification Field Guide is filled with 72 different wildflowers growing in North America today. Each of the 18 tags, measuring just 1 1/4” x 4”, are bound…

Your October photos featured colorful fungi, mountain views and – taking advantage of the unusually warm weather – a surprising number of late season herps. Check out Tami Gingrich’s…

While walking in a stand of hemlocks and spruce, we found an area where a deer had dug extensively into the soft ground. Close inspection revealed a number of broken, soft-bodied yellow stems, and…

Most times on the trail the only evidence you'll find of animals that inhabit the area are scat signs. Scat are the droppings that animals leave behind and contain a wealth of information on the…

Al Robertson’s love of forests began in Germany, where he lived for several years after college. He purchased 60 acres of land in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in 1979 and has spent the…

How do trees fight beavers? Why do trout have spots? Are there ten coyotes howling, or just two? If robins migrate, how come they’re at my feeder this winter? The Outside Story is a weekly…

The North Woods Fly Fishing Guide was designed to educate the novice as well as experienced fly fisher in identifying the aquatic life of our ponds and streams that they try to mimic. Our guide…

The Outside Story: Local Writers Explore the Nature of New Hampshire and Vermont, gives readers the inside scoop on the local ecology.  Two dozen local writers, including Northern…

The musical honking of Canada geese and their V-shaped flocks streaming overhead are classic signs of autumn. I hear the clamor of geese as they fly low over my house, preparing to land in the…

The North Woods Birds of Prey Field Guide features 22 common Birds of Prey found in North America. Measuring just 1 ¼” wide by 4” tall, these unique field guides are printed on a…

Was that a coyote or a fox that walked through here? Take the guesswork out of identifying animal tracks. The North Woods Animal Tracks Field Guide features 22 different animal tracks commonly found…

A Photographic Field Guide and Daily Visit to the Forests, Fields, and Wetlands of Eastern North America, by Mary Holland This follow-up to Naturally Curious is a day-by-day account of nature…

Last spring, I woke in the wee hours of the morning to the sound of someone rearranging my metal deck furniture. The “someone” was a bear. For those living in and near the forests of the…

“Without a plan, with only an impulse to walk,” is how Ben Shattuck set off on the first of the journeys he shares in Six Walks in the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau. At the time,…