Colorful splotches of paint cover the floor of artist Adelaide Murphy Tyrol’s studio in Marshfield, Vermont. Paint-splattered buckets are stacked beneath a large sink. Brushes of various…
Magazine Series
Tree Time’s-Up
For now, this girdled hourglass preserves Tree’s vertical: a monument to gnawing doubts, camel straws, tipping points and indecision by a certain whittling Beaver. After all, beneath…
Thanks to Elise
As we celebrate 30 years of publication of Northern Woodlands, we also celebrate, with thanks, Elise Tillinghast’s leadership of the Center for Northern Woodlands Education for the past…
Chittenango Ovate Amber Snails
Intolerance of disturbance, specific habitat requirements, and narrow distribution: these are characteristics that threaten species with extinction. Unfortunately, the Chittenango ovate amber…
Old Mill, New Market: TimberHP Brings a Paperless Future to Madison
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca (C. 4 BC–AD 65) For many observers of Maine’s forest products industry, the 18-month period between 2014 and…
Paul Tuller’s One Tree Project
Paul Tuller has been working with wood since he was in the seventh grade. His long career includes time spent running a sawmill on his family’s farm in Connecticut and four decades as a…
Behind the Pages
Approximately 50 people contribute to the words and images in each issue of the magazine. Here are some of our Summer 2024 contributors. {image2} Peter Grima (Knots & Bolts,…
From the Center
We’re on the morning school run. Lucy, Turner, and I are singing the family “Yerpy-derp” song, because that’s what we do when we’re stuck behind slow-moving…
Vernal
The other night, frogs crossed roads in the rain, emerged from muddy dark & wet into more of it, following water down to where it seeps & holds— the pools that won’t stay…
Climate Change Impacts on Northeastern Forests
This article is the first in a four-part series that focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation in forests. A companion series published last year focused on forest carbon. Alexandra…