We received many submissions to our October gallery, and are therefore (once again) dividing them into two batches. In this first gallery, many of you documented beautiful autumn landscapes, from…

Reader Tammis Coffin snapped this photo of a curved, twisted-topped pod in western Massachusetts. What is it?

Jeanette Fournier spent much of her childhood in the woods around her home in Littleton, New Hampshire, or filling notebooks with drawings and sketches. Throughout a career in the corporate human…

For nearly a decade, I’ve been adding to a brush pile in the woods behind my home. A depository of pruned branches, dead flowers, discarded logs, old leaves, and an occasional Christmas tree,…

This Week in the Woods, we’re experiencing boomerang weather – a spate of warm days after snow. Now that most leaves are down, we’ve been noticing signs of black knot, a common and…

My approach to fish is strictly epicurean. The last fish I caught was unintentional; a smallmouth bass hooked itself while I untangled a line. I’ve never gone fly-fishing. And yet, I love a…

Pine barrens are certainly piney – but they’re not the least bit barren. They were so named not because they lack life, but because colonists found them unsuitable for raising cattle or…

This Week in the Woods, we’ve been noticing bright green knight’s plume moss, growing atop old stumps and other dead wood. It’s an exceptionally pretty feathermoss, with fern-like…

During mating season, between March and May, mature male wild turkeys, also called toms and gobblers (for the loud, gurgling sound they make), strut in an effort to entice nearby hens into mating. The…

Forty minutes before sunrise on a cold April morning, I turn onto a rural road in northwest Rhode Island, get out of my car, and listen for four minutes. I hear distant traffic noise, an early-singing…

It is often a fluke, some twist of fate, that changes history. In the case of Dartmouth’s Second College Grant, it was a timber theft that initiated nearly 200 years of logging activity and led…

A boy went into the woods and came home with his shirt and pants covered with these clingy customers. What are they?

Russ Cohen has been eating wild foods since he was a child. What started as casual family foraging outings developed into a full-fledged obsession in high school. After earning a master’s degree…

A walk in the woods during fall is likely to reveal an array of forest fungi. Ranging from delicate, tan mini-umbrellas to fleshy, white softballs to foot-long, orange-yellow shelves growing out of…

This Week in the Woods, we’ve enjoyed watching flocks of eastern bluebirds on the edge of a meadow, feeding on insects in stands of young aspens. While they’re not as intensely colored as…

Suffering stinkhorns! Your second gallery for September includes two species of these strange and super-stinky fungi. Sherry Larsen photographed a bumblebee at the moment it entered a closed bottle…

Last October, a young student in one of my nature journaling workshops pointed out a fuzzy yellow caterpillar with long black tufts. “Those kind sting!” he declared. He was the third…

This Week in the Woods, recent rains have mitigated drought conditions, and tree leaves are falling fast. Red oaks are now in full fall color. Common trees of northeastern forests (more cold-hardy…

Just past dawn in the fourth month of what an exhausted Italian doctor on the BBC pronounced the Plague of Corona, I looked out the kitchen window to see a very large fox standing on a cantilevered…

This fallen sugar maple leaf was one of many, discovered in close proximity, marked with odd rings of faded color – and a few holes. What’s happening here?