Magazine Series

On a spring day, Ithaca, New York–based photographer Melissa Groo watched a mother gray squirrel painstakingly move her kits to a new nest. “Grasping them in her mouth,” Groo…

Luthier Eric Bright crafted guitars from salvaged wood of Adirondack spruce “sink logs,” which had settled on the bottom of Schroon Lake during log drives in the 1800s. Bright…

Opened in the autumn of 2021, the Autism Nature Trail at Letchworth State Park is breaking new ground for outdoor accessibility and education, especially for school-age children with autism.…

When I first heard of Eric Bright’s custom-built guitars, I knew I needed to find a way to see and play his instruments. I had been researching the period of intense logging that…

By the mid-1800s, loss of forests to agricultural land and hunting had extirpated moose throughout much of the Northeast. With the reversion of large tracts of farmland to forest during the…

If you peer into the waters of a vernal pool in early spring, you may see the eggs of several amphibian species that use this special habitat to reproduce. But which eggs belong to which…

Approximately 50 people contribute to the words and images in each issue of the magazine. Here are some of our Spring 2023 contributors. {image2} Conrad Baker (“Autism Nature…

Until we began working on this issue of the magazine, I had no idea that spotted salamanders are individually distinguishable by their spots. But they are, and what you see below are five…

Readers often express interest in forests’ capacity to absorb and store carbon, and in climate-friendly management practices. In this first installment of a four-part series supported by…

On my family’s 80-acre Christmas tree farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom was a large swamp populated by northern white cedar trees. The swamp was at the base of Mount Monadnock,…