Our online content is great - but nothing beats the experience of the magazine in hand! Get acquainted with the forests, flora, and fauna of Northern Woodlands by reading a back issue from our…

Last June my wife Marie and I encountered a mature wood turtle while walking through a forest near our home. We admired the intricate topography of its shell, inspiration for this species’…

This Week in the Woods, we’ve noticed three “fingered” yellow birch scales (bracts) and seeds that have recently fallen from their catkins onto the snow. Winter weather helps…

Woodland bodgers were the itinerant greenwood craftsmen of western Europe who moved around the forest in search of good stock for making furniture. Their forest office provided coppice wood for chair…

An interview with author Dee Dauphinee This year’s surge in hiking and other woods-based recreation inevitably comes with greater risk of people getting lost off trails. Dee Dauphinee is an…

While pursuing iNaturalist records of insects in the Saint Michael's College Natural Area, I noticed a species I had never encountered, and it was recorded at an unusual time of the year for…

Due to the high volume of photo submissions, we’ve again divided our Reader Photo Gallery into two batches. In this first gallery, you contemplated a variety of tracks and funky ice formations.…

Rachel Dandeneau is a professor of environmental science at White Mountains Community College in Berlin, New Hampshire, not far from where she grew up. She also chairs WMCC’s STEM and Advanced…

Ben Kilham at the Kilham Bear Center in Lyme, New Hampshire, found this quarter-sized structure under the bark of a pine log. What is it?

The changing climate is transforming forests around the world, and a new study has found that these changes are resulting in forests of shorter and younger trees. A review of 160 previous studies on…

Efforts to restore populations of the rare American marten after their disappearance from much of northern New England in the mid-1900s have had limited success. Despite several reintroduction…

Mornings are quiet now. Gone is the loud chorus of bird song outside my window that I awoke to in spring and summer. While we brave the cold, snow, and bitter winds of winter by donning extra layers…

This Week in the Woods, we visited an old beaver pond which has drained out to become a damp meadow, surrounded by small tree stumps sprouting new stems. This is a natural example of coppicing, and as…

Brothers Bruce and David Bovill have been working together most of their lives. They grew up in the small northern New Hampshire town of Colebrook, and remember hand-loading 4-foot spruce pulpwood…

It’s mud season in central New York, and along the edge of a pond created by a massive beaver dam, patches of melting snow are interspersed with ankle-deep mud and seeps of water streaming down…

American basswood (Tilia americana) is known for the alluring scent and abundant nectar of its flowers, as well as its lightweight, odorless wood that lends itself to the production of food crates and…

As with people, it takes time to know a plant. During a year, an individual plant will look very different from one season to the next. For those of us inclined to eat them, knowing plants in all of…

Last night was clear and I drove into the game lands above Tipton to where the reservoir sits halfway up the mountain. The sky opens there into a wide bowl, far from the artificial light we’ve…

If you are out walking on an early winter morning, you might be lucky enough to see some of nature’s most beautiful and ephemeral sights: hair ice and frost flowers, both snow-white and delicate…

This Week in the Woods, those of us who celebrate Christmas did so amid weather that seemed appropriate for 2020 -  i.e., a heavy rain that washed away the snow. The rain left in its wake roaring…