Magazine Series

Just past dawn in the fourth month of what an exhausted Italian doctor on the BBC pronounced the Plague of Corona, I looked out the kitchen window to see a very large fox standing on a…

With the invasive Emerald Ash Borer expanding its range in New England, ash trees are facing an existential threat. In central Maine, where the Wabanaki tribes have long practiced the art of…

George Washington Sears wrote for Forest & Stream (now Field & Stream) magazine under the pen name Nessmuk, a tribute to his Narragansett Indian childhood mentor who taught him…

Naturalist, artist, and writer Clare Walker Leslie inspires people around the world to pay attention to the nature around them and to discover their own distinct way of reflecting and…

My students and I have pit-trapped invertebrates in Camp Johnson in Colchester, Vermont, annually since 2006. We sink liquid-filled plastic tubes into the ground to intercept forest-floor…

An interview with David Montague, president of the Downeast Lakes Land Trust The Downeast Lakes Land Trust was one of the first organizations in the Northeast to conserve land using carbon…

Winter has traditionally been a productive time of year for the forest products industry in the Northeast. Landowners schedule timber harvests in the winter season to take advantage of frozen…

Whose Mouth Do I Speak With? I can remember my father bringing home spruce gum. He worked in the woods and filled his pockets with golden chunks of pitch. For his children he provided this…

In the Kingdom of October, early morning fog wraiths hang upon hardwood hillsides of burnt orange and smoldering gold. Overgrown apple orchards, each tree bent and hag twisted by the pitiless…

Ying Li paints out of doors most of the time, but her work is not what comes to mind when one thinks of “en plein air” painting. Historically, the plein air approach was…