Irregular Shelterwoods in a Rejuvenating Oak-Hickory Forest Looking downslope from the perimeter of a recent irregular shelterwood cut in Connecticut’s Yale-Myers Forest on a mid-July…
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Bringing Back Wild Trout
Will Restoration Efforts Change Recreational Fishing? In his extensive profile, Brook Trout: A Thorough Look at North America’s Great Native Trout – Its History, Biology, and…
At Chapman Brook
Rain falls on a forested hillside in the mountains of western Maine, 2,000 feet above sea level. Water collects in the narrow valley surrounded by a forest of pine, hemlock, oak, beech, and…
Finding Gibbs Swamp
“Don’t even try it,” my friend said, chuckling and shaking his head slowly. “That’s Gibbs Swamp. People have lost horses in there.” It had been a year since…
Forests to Water: A Connected Landscape
Taking a watershed-level approach to forest management – also called “ecological forestry” – can sustain and restore the essential interconnections and functions of a…
Raptor Rehab
Being a wild bird rehabilitator requires something akin to parenting skills, combined with the grit of an emergency room doctor. The injuries and illnesses encountered are varied, as are the…
Recognizing a Literature of Place
Learning From Dawnland Voices Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Abenaki, Nipmuc, Wampanoag, Narragansett, Mohegan, Schaghticoke. These names represent Indigenous people living…
Staying Safe on the Trail
An interview with author Dee Dauphinee This year’s surge in hiking and other woods-based recreation inevitably comes with greater risk of people getting lost off trails. Dee Dauphinee is…
Swamp Otters
It’s mud season in central New York, and along the edge of a pond created by a massive beaver dam, patches of melting snow are interspersed with ankle-deep mud and seeps of water…
A Boost for Red Spruce
By late fall of 2017, I was suffering from slingshot finger. It was caused by routinely firing off an 8-foot version of the weapon traditionally wielded by fiendish little kids. I’d…