Magazine Series

for Rick (1956–2022) The pine log screams as he pushes it through the saw. A portable mill because he likes to work outdoors, leaning in to northern summer sun, or weighed down with wool…

“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will…” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath, 1749–1832 Ice Cut (Violet Kennebec) is…

Dozens of people contribute to creating each issue of Northern Woodlands. Here are a few of the people whose work is featured in the Winter magazine. {image2} Adelaide Murphy Tyrol (Art…

Over the past decade, a new generation of forest “bioproducts” has emerged from university research labs in Maine, combining the natural benefits of wood with a dose of high-tech…

Old-growth forests are ecosystems distinguished by old trees and shaped by long periods of natural processes. They differ in important ways from younger forests, offering unique structures,…

If winter travels take you along the banks of a clean, rocky stream on a warm afternoon, chances are good you’ll encounter stoneflies (order Plecoptera) seeking out others of their kind…

Having honed his photography skills by focusing on warm weather findings, Brent Haglund found himself, a few winters back, searching for something to aim his camera toward during the colder…

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…

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…

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…