Sheldon and Penelope Pennoyer will tell you they moved to their hilltop land in Greenfield, New Hampshire, because they wanted their boys to do farm chores. Back when their first child was…

In the kitchen cabinet trade, hard maple is king these days. Also widely used for flooring and trim, hard maple is highly valued for its durability and light-colored sapwood. As Dave Clements…

Aldo Leopold wrote, “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” I am definitely among the latter. It refreshes my soul to see wild animals up close and…

Can you name the three most heavily forested states in the United States? The answer might surprise you: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, in that order. All three are 80 percent or more…

According to traditional forestry, there are two kinds of forests. Every forest you step into can be categorized as either even-aged or uneven-aged. But most foresters regularly come across…

All ponds have water in common. It’s their surroundings that tell them apart. The pasture pond is a sun-splashed delight prized for its recreational opportunities and as a landscape…

Charlie Cogbill has spent a large part of his career studying a forest that no longer exists: the pre-settlement forest in New England and New York. A plant ecologist, Cogbill began this work…

Photo by Ned Therrien David and C.C. take a break from putting up wood.I remember several years ago asking David White where he lived and maybe something about what he did for a living.…

Fifteen cords a winter. I’d thought it was more like 10 but my mother informs me otherwise and although she’s 80 she’s not only still sharp as a sawtooth but has much better…

“Windsor furniture is, I believe, the most characteristically American and the most historically significant furniture style to emerge from eighteenth-century America. It is a democratic…