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Resources to Improve Stream Crossings

For Safer Communities and Benefits to Fish and Wildlife Throughout the Northeast, local, state, federal, and tribal agencies partner with communities and landowners to upgrade stream crossings…

Harvesting Timber in the Adirondacks

In March 2021, upstate New York-based photographer Erika Bailey joined members of Paul Smith’s College Timber Harvesting Crew for a day to document their harvesting activities in a stand…

The Making of a Ski Glade

In 2016, a group of skiing enthusiasts in the White Mountains established the Granite Backcountry Alliance (GBA), with a mission to develop ski glades in collaboration with private landowners,…

Managing Diversity

Today’s forests must respond to a changing world, with stressors ranging from fragmentation and pollution to invasive pests and a shifting climate. One of the best things we can do to…

Open Country

I don’t know how the snowmobiles make it up or down the short, steep hill at the edge of the cornfield that borders my driveway. But their tracks drop from the top of the hill into…

Building a Bucking Stanchion

Using a bucking stanchion not only keeps the wood off the ground (and your chainsaw out of the dirt) but also allows you to cut multiple logs or slabs at once. The design I use is sized so…

Floodplain Forests: Nature’s Flood Relief

Ten years ago, Pam Brown stood across the road from her house in Bethel, Vermont, and watched the rain fall on a field of tall, green corn. The bridge out of town had been closed, and she had…

Monitoring Connecticut’s Bat Populations in White-nose Syndrome’s Midst

The social nature of cave bats and their penchant for cold, humid wintering roosts make them particularly vulnerable to white-nosed syndrome (WNS), a disease caused by the Pseudogymnoascus…

Stream Crossings Reimagined

Miles and miles of streams flow through northeastern forests, serving as habitat for fish, freshwater mussels, invertebrates, and other aquatic organisms. These waterways feed our rivers,…

A Logger’s View from a Shelterwood Harvest

An Interview with Lee Russell At a timber harvest site managed by Katahdin Forest Management along the Golden Road in Millinocket, Maine, photographer Ashley L. Conti caught up with logger and…