Magazine Series

The days of September and October were brilliant, with sunshine descending through a dappled canopy. The tulip poplars turned yellow first. Then the sugar and red maples paraded their…

Trees’ ability to draw carbon dioxide out of the air and sequester it for decades make them a key nature-based solution to mitigating climate change. And with the localized cooling they…

During autumn, hillsides in the Northeast transform from a summer green to a patchwork of color. Sugar maple turns orange, paper birch glows lemon yellow, and serviceberry deepens to crimson.…

Roosting like a plump hen at the base of an oak tree in autumn, maitake, or hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa), is a distinctive and delicious polypore that offers versatility in the kitchen.…

On a summer day in the early 1990s, naturalist Susan Shea was exploring wetlands in her hometown of Brookfield, Vermont, when she came across something she knew was unusual. It was similar to…

This past spring and summer, I spent a lot of time driving through various parts of the Northeast – and beyond – most of it with my youngest, who was exploring college campuses and…

This past May, the Center for Northern Woodlands Education held our annual board and staff retreat at Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highland Center in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. At the…

Dozens of people contribute to creating each issue of Northern Woodlands. Here are a few of the people whose work is featured in the Autumn magazine. {image2} Elise Tillinghast (Seasonal…

There is no tree The tree is beautiful I raise my marking gun Making a blue spot The woodcutter comes and kills the tree Sunanda makes a wooden box To hold my ashes There is no tree The tree…