An Interview with Lee Russell At a timber harvest site managed by Katahdin Forest Management along the Golden Road in Millinocket, Maine, photographer Ashley L. Conti caught up with logger and…

The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a favorite among birdwatchers in backyards and gardens, where these tiny, brightly colored birds whir from flower to flower and visit…

Murph and I had ducked into the woods in Phippsburg around 9:30 a.m., hoping to escape the July heat. No spring chickens, we ambled more than we hiked and only covered a few miles before…

“We’re creating a model that can be replicated in other ecoregions. We must preserve these arks of biodiversity. Seed sovereignty is a tool of resilience in the face of climate…

Each fall, as days grow shorter and the sun dips lower in the sky, the last of the year’s run of Atlantic salmon swim through the cold waters of the Penobscot River and its tributaries,…

For more than 200 years, dams built on waterways up and down the East Coast helped to move and sort timber, power sawmills and gristmills, and produce hydroelectric power. These dams shut off…

During World War II, all across the country, women stepped in to fill jobs traditionally performed by the men who had gone to war. One of these women was Virginia Pearson, who in the summer of…

Dale Brooks says it was Sonny Congdon who taught him how to saw, and so John Rozensky would have helped teach him as well because Sonny and John were working together at that time running…

For me, the challenges of the pandemic have had a silver lining, directly in my sightline. I have stayed home and kept a journal. Daily, I have re-engaged slow fun, the spin of the planet from…

It must have felt like summiting a mountain, exhaustion and jubilation at war with each other, only to discover that, well, actually this isn’t the summit yet – and now you have…