In 1984, my family and I had the opportunity to spend three days at the International Forest Congress in Quebec City where conditions of the world's forest were being discussed. The…

In southern New England and Pennsylvania, the hemlock has been under attack by the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae. There is enough fear of its spreading north that Vermont, New…

While there are plenty of wreathmakers in Vermont, it's quite possible that no two of them make a wreath the same way. For our wreathmaking lesson, we went to Claudette Allen of…

Many people appreciate the parklike appearance of a stand of trees in which the lower branches have been removed. Trails lined by pruned trees invite us to take a walk, and for some of us…

For thousands of years before English and French were the predominant languages spoken in northern New England, the region's woods rang with a tongue sounding like a gently gurgling…

Virtually every single deer within a 200 square mile section of Essex County makes tracks every December to the Nulhegan Basin to spend the winter in the relative comfort of Vermont's…

Until we started working on Vermont Woodlands last Spring, I thought the flow of communication in a magazine was in one direction, out from the publisher to the readers. I certainly did not…

Paul Bunyan, who caused earthquakes whenever he dropped his biscuits and whose ax handle was made out of a whole pine tree trunk, was never a real folk hero of the lumbering trade. He was the…

As the Northern Forest Lands Council publishes our recommendations and begins promoting them this fall, it gives me occasion to reflect on their meaning for us and for the forest. The council…

Migratory flights of Canada geese are hard to miss. A chorus of honking can be heard in the distance before they come into view in their ever-shifting chevron formation, and witnessing their…