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When the Women Manned the Mountain

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…

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Sawing on the Amidon

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…

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Rediscovering Coyote Hollow

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…

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Genuinely Within Our Grasp

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…

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Citizens of the Land

Weaving a Northern Forest Ethic The earth beneath our feet grounds us, its contours orient us, its waterways guide us. The land is foundational for us all, but the ways we move through and…

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Forest Trees: A Natural Water Filter

Our forests provide us myriad benefits, but none more critical to life than the way they interact with water. Trees collect and absorb water through branches, leaves, and roots, and then…

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A Connecticut Quilt

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…

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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…

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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…