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…

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome – Emily Dickinson A bobolink circled…

It’s just after sundown in the deep, evergreen forest of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve outside Albany, New York, a time when rarely seen creatures emerge from the shadows. Somewhere in…

Carrion is a great place to find insects, especially beetles and flies. Specific insects are attracted to dead animals as they decompose, with a predictable progression of visitors each…

A Cross-Border Collaboration Shows the Power of Mountain Biking to Make Small Towns More Resilient In 2005, Taylor Caswell got a call from a logger he had hired to work on the family’s…

There’s been considerable focus in recent years on enhancing bee habitat through meadow restoration and gardening with pollinator-friendly plants. But forests are also important to many…

In the late 1990s, when my wife and I moved to New England from the sparse desert and jagged peaks of the Southwest, it took some time to adjust to the dense, green landscape of northern…

Since 2002, when the first emerald ash borers (EAB) were identified in Michigan and Ontario, the glistening green beetles have spread rapidly, enjoying a mostly uncontested feast. The numbers…