This Week in the Woods, we’ve noticed more berries ripening, including red baneberry and its creepy cousin, doll’s eyes (white baneberry) which as its common name suggests, takes the form…

Lately, citizen scientists, gardeners, and outdoor enthusiasts of all types have become increasingly concerned with recorded declines in pollinating insect populations. From the Pollinator Pathway…

The American landscape has been altered more by the axe than by any other tool. It is estimated that more than 300 million acres of timber were cut prior to the advent of the chainsaw in the mid…

In the Summer 2020 issue, we feature two poems from Norwich University professor Sean Prentiss’ debut book of poetry, Crosscut. Here, Prentiss reflects on hand tools, the gifts and inspirations…

There was a sucking sound as my rubber boot sank into the deep black muck. Naturalist Jon Binhammer and I were standing in the middle of a hardwood swamp in central Vermont. Above us, dainty red…

This Week in the Woods, we’ve had several encounters with clymene moths. According to the National Wildlife Federation’s Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America, this species…

For Lisabeth Willey, it was turtle love at first sight, and she’s had a lifelong love affair with shelled reptiles. A conservation biologist and a professor at Antioch University New England,…

We found this odd structure growing next to several Amanita mushrooms. What made it?

As you swat away blackflies this summer, look closely; it may be that not all those flies are flies. Some of them might be tiny sweat bees, members of the Halictidae family, which gets its common name…

This week in the woods, we’ve had several close encounters with red-eyed vireo fledglings and adults. Common summer residents of deciduous woodlands, red-eyed vireos are hard to see but easy to…

We had so many submissions for June, that we opted to publish two galleries. Thank you to everyone who submitted images. Your June photos showed an abundance of young life, and broad summer…

This week in the woods, we stumbled upon this clown-faced caterpillar, which we had difficulty identifying. The linden prominent is common but hard to find; it clings to the undersides of American…

We were touring the neighborhood backroads one summer evening when the kids noticed a sleek movement through a small pond. At first, we thought it was a beaver, but its smaller size and – once…

We had so many submissions for June that we opted to publish two galleries. Thank you to everyone who submitted images. Your photos showed an abundance of young life and broad summer…

We found these weird brown bundles fastened to a log. What are they?

Bob Keller is a pilot with LightHawk, a non-profit that connects volunteer pilots with conservation organizations and uses aviation to enhance on-the-ground conservation work. Since 1994, Keller has…

Large fishing spiders walking on water can be fascinating – or terrifyingly unnerving. The latter reaction is common among Saint Michael's College students as we sample Vermont’s…

This week in the woods, the recent combination of rain and heat has produced a bumper crop of mushrooms and other fungal forms, including crown-tipped coral. This common, easy-to-identify fungus grows…

The Resilient Forest Series combines articles, films, and audio stories to explore the relationships and traditions that have helped keep northeastern forests intact. This series also considers how…

I was 22 and volunteering with an amphibian monitoring project that summer. Standing along a roadway in the woods of Sumner, Maine – armed with a clipboard and a headlamp – I strained my…