Magazine Series

My father spent our summer vacations woodcarving. He would set up in front of the cottage, right at the water’s edge, with a piece of wood cradled in his lap – or, if it were…

On several days throughout summer, a small flotilla of canoes and kayaks gathers on Tilton Pond in central Maine, on the hunt for an uninvited carnivorous plant that has taken hold: swollen…

In one year, Steve Wheeler put 35,000 miles on his new Chevy pickup. You might think Wheeler has a punishing commute, or perhaps family members scattered across the country. But he racked up…

For millennia, a group of prehistoric fishes have been swimming the rivers, lakes, and coastal waters of northeastern North America. These fish – some of them approaching a…

At first look, Sherrie York’s linocut Tern of the Tide is reminiscent of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic woodcut print The Great Wave (c. 1830). But unlike Hokusai’s piece, York…

All spring the tree frogs peeped in the dark, except those seeming lost in the grass by the wooden steps, their bodies like paper. I would let the dog out the back door at night and walk alone…

As I was prepping my fall invertebrate zoology course, a colleague mentioned that a local berry farmer had scraped mud dauber wasp nests off an outbuilding and suggested these would be of…

Black raspberries, along with raspberries and blackberries, are among the berries that grow on brambles in the Northeast. Also called blackcaps, black raspberries are the most shade tolerant…

Every forest tells a story of disturbance. The trees growing today reflect past hurricanes, abandoned farm fields, insect outbreaks, timber harvests, and even retreating glaciers. Forest…