Rising to an elevation of 6,288 feet, Mount Washington caps New Hampshire’s Presidential Range and is the highest peak in the Northeast. On a clear summer day, hordes of visitors flock…

Back in the 1980s, I began a long-term project with New England cottontails to explore the causes of their regional decline and how that situation could be reversed. I found that cottontails…

On the New England breakfast table, two things reign supreme: coffee and maple syrup. No stack of pancakes would be complete without a cascade of Grade A and a hot cup of joe – but the…

Imagine this, once upon a time in the Maine Woods.... On a bitter cold day in the winter of 1912 near Ross Lake in northern Maine, Si Walsh stepped up to the steering box at the front of the…

This past June, a team from Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst completed an outreach publication focused on the experiences and insights of five rural Black…

Caleb Kenna has been photographing Vermont’s people and landscape for 25 years. In this visual exploration, Kenna spotlights a few of the many waterways that feed into Lake Champlain.…

Eight men living with cancer were lined up in the waters of Grand Lake Stream alongside their fishing guides. The swirling, restorative currents of the stream braided together the lives of…

The Charlestown Navy Yard has been a fixture of the Boston Harbor shoreline for more than 200 years. Until its closure in 1974, the Navy Yard was a city-within-a-city, with facilities…

Legendary Connecticut State Forester Austin Hawes called it “the most perfect mixture of the northern and southern New England forest types” he had ever seen. The Carrington Phelps…

For many people, home is not one spot on the landscape, it can be many places. In A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, archaeologist Robert Goodby, a professor of…