Magazine Series

The Impact of an Extreme Rain Event on a Headwater Stream in Maine’s Western Mountains In “At Chapman Brook” (Spring 2021), author Catherine Schmitt describes the important…

Maine Audubon’s Forestry for Maine Birds program is designed to give landowners, foresters, and loggers tools to enhance, create, or conserve current and future bird habitat. You can…

Taking a watershed-level approach to forest management – also called “ecological forestry” – can sustain and restore the essential interconnections and functions of a…

Being a wild bird rehabilitator requires something akin to parenting skills, combined with the grit of an emergency room doctor. The injuries and illnesses encountered are varied, as are the…

Learning From Dawnland Voices Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Abenaki, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, Narragansett, Mohegan, Schaghticoke. These names represent Indigenous people living…

what fun what fun what a fun time of year mossy boulder in the sun icicle dripping baby cows frolicking about green meadows as high snows collapse into the whitewater that flows to yellow…

“I found this ovenbird in Allegany State Park, New York. It was springtime, and he was singing lustily at the edge of the woods. His desire to claim his territory outweighed any fear he…

My siblings and I grew up spending hours in the swampy woodlands behind our home, where the neighborhood kids would gather for adventures. To enter the bigger expanse of woods, we had to cross…

We fell hard for the house the first day we saw it. We admired the old apple trees and stone walls, the handmade bricks and hand-hewn beams. At the time, those beams were only visible in one…

Woodland bodgers were the itinerant greenwood craftsmen of western Europe who moved around the forest in search of good stock for making furniture. Their forest office provided coppice wood…