Magazine Series

Never mind the dreaded news at the dentist’s office – cavities are good! Dead, broken-topped snags full of large and small cavities aren’t worth anything at the mill.…

We were maybe 10 minutes down the trail when Nancy Sferra made the announcement. “We’re now officially in old growth.” A few steps had taken us from one type of forest, a…

Dana Ceccarelli photographed this bark-stripped log on the bank of the Wells River in Vermont last autumn. “It has been there for many years – submerged in some seasons, exposed in…

Now is a favorite time for family campfires up on our hill. The cricket chirps are slowing, the asters are feeding the last of the bees. Behind us, the woods edge crackles with flutters and…

“It’s like loving someone with a terminal disease,” she said, her long, thin fingers brushing the tree’s rivulet bark. Our daughter’s in a front pack on her…

"Light is the most important person in the picture." Claude Monet, 1840-1926 founder of French Impressionism For the painter Claude Monet, the effects of light on a subject were as…

Betsy Lesnikoski loved being outdoors as a child in Connecticut in the 1970s, but given her suburban surroundings, she wasn’t sure how to turn that passion into a career. When she…

Ethan Pond, a small pond high in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is not only where a trout-fishing addiction began for me, but it’s also where some of the earliest observations of…

Forests are complex systems. The Earth’s climate is a complex system. When you put them together, you get something even more complex. Complexity upon complexity, as it were. It’s…

Jens Hilke, a conservation planning biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, stood beside his colleague, James Brady, a biologist with the Vermont Agency of Transportation…