In a world where children are spending more time on screens, Forest Magic offers inspiration for young people to venture outdoors. Susie Spikol is a parent, educator, and author who feels strongly…

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World offers an appeal to readers to acknowledge the gifts they receive freely through nature and their…

Climate change and loss of biodiversity are not far-off crises. They are happening in our own backyards – quite literally – and there’s a lot we can do there to address these issues.…

Invasive species pose significant ecological and economic problems; a 2021 study published in the journal NeoBiota estimated that invasive species cost the North American economy $26 billion per year.…

Non-native invasive forest pests such as emerald ash borer and hemlock woolly adelgid get a lot of attention, and well deserved, for being major tree killers. There are, however, some native pests…

The production of steel and concrete is responsible for approximately 13½ percent of global carbon emissions, according to a 2022 article in the journal Nature. After clean water, cement (a key…

It rained overnight. A morning walk along the well-worn path in the family’s woodlot is not crunchy and soothing, as it is on many fall mornings. Today it’s a bit sodden, with the last…

With trees covering 17.5 million acres (90 percent of the state’s landmass), Maine is the most forested state in the United States. Private landowners – corporations, institutional…

Ralph DiCosimo never imagined he’d move so far north. He spent his childhood in an apartment in the Bronx, and another two decades on a suburban lot on Long Island, but he always dreamed of…

At the start of January, cold air slides along the Allegheny Front. Days are short, and the temperature hovers near zero in the valley, even colder on the mountain. Earlier this afternoon I called my…

In late autumn, cold air masses come barreling down from the Canadian Arctic like an atmospheric avalanche, bringing with them a visitor from the North: the rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus). Its…

On what he remembers as “a dismal late December day,” with temperatures hovering in the 30s, wildlife tracker and photographer Ben Wymer came across this scene in northeastern Minnesota:…

As much as I lament the exceedingly long nights of winter, I find myself enchanted each year by the sparkle that breaks through the dark of the season. I can, for instance, stargaze before dinner (and…

Following this autumn’s enriching Northeastern Old Growth Conference, a board member asked me how the Center for Northern Woodlands Education fits into the wide range of advocacy groups and…