Your May photos captured green frogs, brilliantly colored birds, and a splendid variety of blooming plants. Who can resist a cute, juvenile red squirrel in a moment of stillness such as the one…

From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across the pond: drink-your-tea! This is not a British parent’s plea, but…

In the introduction of Tree Trek: A Daughter’s Walk Through Grief, Stephanie Mirocha writes, “This book is the story of losing my father, that pillar of my life, and of trees, the silent…

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria is simultaneously a memoir, a natural history guide, a climate change manifesto, and an enthusiastic celebration of biodiversity and queerness in the…

Unsurprisingly, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s is about trees – the 100-foot white pines destined to be felled for construction materials, the bent limbs of trees that “make a…

This week in the woods, a number of plants showed their floral faces through the curtains of other leafy wetland growth. Three long twisted “flags” (a sepal up top and petals to the side)…

John is a Business Affairs Attorney in the New York-based Publications Department of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the talent and literary agency. He negotiates directly with publishers in their…

Dear Friends, From 5 PM Tuesday, June 10, to 5 PM Wednesday, June 11, we’re joining hundreds of nonprofits across the state for NH Gives — a 24-hour online giving event celebrating the…

On a spring morning walk, I stop to smell a painted trillium and am greeted by a goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia). Bending down for a sniff of the white and pink blooms, I am face to face with…

This week in the woods, we found this yellow-headed looper moth hiding its titular head beneath a fold in a leaf. This moth also goes by the common names pitch pine looper and eastern pine looper,…

Lee Kantar is the moose biologist for Maine and has been with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife since 2005. In 2019, Lee was award with the Distinguished Moose Biologist Award at the…

These white arches can be found on the forest floor, emerging from the soil and reentering just a couple inches away. What are they?

There is nothing like the royal blue of an indigo bunting. In the Northeast, they arrive fashionably late to the spring fling, behind the vanguard of migrating warblers and other songbirds. On my…

One of the common setups in science fiction is that of an extraterrestrial life-form laying eggs in people who serve as involuntary hosts. Eventually, alien babies burst forth to continue the…

The New England – Acadian Forest ecoregion covers most of Maritime Canada, a slice of eastern Quebec, northern New England, and the Adirondack Mountains. Each conifer species in this region has…

Exacerbated by climate change, extreme city heat is an increasingly common concern. Thankfully, trees can help. For decades, city managers have turned to oak, maple, linden, and other species to…

One of the core goals of ecologists is identifying how species interact. Does species A, for instance, have a positive, negative, or neutral impact on species B? Elucidating such relationships is key…

Brent Haglund came to macrophotography almost by accident. When he purchased his first digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, it was to capture images of his newborn son. Spending time on the floor…

The Bauhaus (1919–1933) was a German art school founded on the principal of the unification of art, design, and technology. The school had three primary goals: to combine art and design into a…

During my first lecture in front of a large room of students, a small spider put me – and my 220 students – at ease. As I flicked on the overhead projector, I spotted a ¼-inch…