In March 2021, upstate New York-based photographer Erika Bailey joined members of Paul Smith’s College Timber Harvesting Crew for a day to document their harvesting activities in a stand…

In 2016, a group of skiing enthusiasts in the White Mountains established the Granite Backcountry Alliance (GBA), with a mission to develop ski glades in collaboration with private landowners,…

Logger and independent contractor Lee Russell has been working in the woods for nearly 30 years, and has been self-employed since 1997. Here, photographer Ashley Conte follows along with…

Bill Gould, a member of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, and Reid Schwarz, a woodworker and toolmaker, launched their first birchbark canoe onto local waters in New Hampshire in…

In 2017, Inland Woods + Trails joined Bike the Borderlands, a collaborative of eight mountain bike organizations located in three states and two countries. The group promotes mountain biking…

Vernal pools, ephemeral wetlands that come to life in early spring with wood frogs, spring peepers, fairy shrimp, and a variety of salamanders, are celebrated by ecologists and woodland…

The Impact of an Extreme Rain Event on a Headwater Stream in Maine’s Western Mountains In “At Chapman Brook” (Spring 2021), author Catherine Schmitt describes the important…

Maine Audubon’s Forestry for Maine Birds program is designed to give landowners, foresters, and loggers tools to enhance, create, or conserve current and future bird habitat. You can…

Fans of Northern Woodland’s monthly Reader Photo Gallery may recognize the name Charlie Schwarz, a regular contributor to the gallery. A retired forester and lifelong naturalist, Charlie…

Community engagement in nature and art takes many forms. A two-decade effort to restore a healthy meadow to an urban forest in Worcester, Massachusetts, also brought a college campus and a…