If you have kids, you know that children’s books about animals usually fall into two camps: There are the basic non-fiction books that give your kids just enough information to raise a million…

Thomas O’Donnell’s reminiscences of his boyhood in a remote lumbering settlement provide an amusing and entertaining description of family life in a nineteenth-century logging camp. The…

On a morning walk around the pond, the dog and I encountered a dead shrew – perhaps the unfortunate casualty of a neighborhood feline or a red fox (shrews are well-known for being distasteful…

We're pleased to announce underwriting support from the Plum Creek Foundation for our popular "Stewardship Stories" article series in Northern Woodlands magazine, starting with the Winter 2013…

Ever since the emerald ash borer (EAB) was discovered in Michigan in 2002, many have speculated about its potential effects on forests in the Northeast. With the confirmation of infestations in…

Who left that soccer ball on the front lawn? Come on, you know it didn’t just grow there. Pretending to confuse a giant puffball mushroom with a soccer ball (or vice versa) is a well-worn joke…

Forestry students might call this "Dendrology at 50 mph." Name the tree species, from left.

We spend a lot of time in our magazine pointing out how the past is reflected in nature, sometimes in subtle ways, like a stand of chestnut oak where once there’d been a forest fire, sometimes…

Photographer Frank Kaczmarek took this photo on a dew-laden, early autumn morning. “One of my favorite web-building spiders is the black and yellow argiope (Argiope aurantia), said Kaczmarek,…

It's mid-October and fall is in full swing: foggy mornings, cold rains, and falling leaves. Time to talk about…tadpoles!? That's right, while we may be accustomed to discussing…

Who funds the Center for Northern Woodlands Education’s work and financially supports our mission? For the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2024, the organization’s $835,000 in…

For those concerned about climate change, renewable energy development is a nobrainer. And the breezy mountaintops of New England, far from human population centers, appear to be ideal settings for…

From 1998 to early 2011, Northern Woodlands produced a Teacher’s Guide to accompany the magazine. While the Northern Woodlands Goes to School program no longer produces this guide, you can still…

Northern Woodlands’ audience consists of stewardship-minded people with an interest in all aspects of the forests of the Northeast. Our articles and columns range in scope, and may include…

We know that many of you are engaged in projects that improve your woods.  We’d like to provide examples to our readers of these stewardship projects.  Please send us stories of your…

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Those bulging cysts on the otherwise very smooth, gray-brown bark are a distinguishing characteristic of balsam fir trees. They’re all over most fir stems. Aside from the really young and the…

What’s the muddy depression that these folks are looking at? (That’s our Tracking Tips columnist Sue Morse in green, for those who don’t know her.)

Editor’s Note: The story you’re about to read is blunt and unvarnished and more graphic than our usual hunting fare. If you’re sensitive to this sort of thing you might consider…