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…

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…

A magnificent 92-mile-long ribbon of interconnected lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams flowing through the heart of Maine’s vast northern forest, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW)…

A hundred years ago the black cherry tree in the gully behind our house on Cliff Street sprouted in a hillside pasture. It hasn’t moved, but the village has crept up the hill and the…

Rumbles of thunder have grown distant, and the pea-size raindrops that were slamming my face a short time ago have dwindled to a mist. With the rain easing, I notice trickles of water running…

An interview with David Montague, president of the Downeast Lakes Land Trust The Downeast Lakes Land Trust was one of the first organizations in the Northeast to conserve land using carbon…

Winter has traditionally been a productive time of year for the forest products industry in the Northeast. Landowners schedule timber harvests in the winter season to take advantage of frozen…

A quarter-century after the publication of their landmark book The Northern Forest, two writers return to a changed landscape - and find hope in a conservationist committed to local solutions.…

Climate change is bringing warmer and wetter conditions to the Northeast, with many implications for the forest products industry. An unpredictable winter season requires flexibility, and…

The American landscape has been altered more by the axe than by any other tool. It is estimated that more than 300 million acres of timber were cut prior to the advent of the chainsaw in the…