Wood Lit

How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands In This Land Was Saved for You and Me: How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and…

The best writers, whether they focus on fiction or truth, are first and foremost storytellers. Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx is among the best. In her slim volume, Fen, Bog & Swamp: A…

At the age of 49, Susan Fox Rogers had reached an inflection point in life, single and with no children, both parents recently passed away, and immersed in a happy teaching and writing career…

I grew up on a large tree farm in western Connecticut, and my family’s backyard tree nursery was surrounded by northern white-cedars. White-tailed deer browsed the trees’ lower…

From the hammock where I read Beaverland, Leila Philip’s stunning new book, a beaver dam sits less than 10 feet away. Behind that dam rests a marsh filled with waterfowl. Beaverland…

How to Prowl for an Owl, Make Snail Slime, and Catch a Frog Bare-Handed The Animal Adventurer’s Guide is an irresistible and accessible guide to backyard wildlife. Author Susie Spikol, a…

Our sprawling East Coast cities, often visited for their history and culture, don’t usually attract naturalists in search of wild flora. But perhaps that will change: Urban Lichens: A…

Many of us turn to the natural world to gain perspective, to learn, to find order and beauty in species and systems outside ourselves. While smartphones and social media have the potential to…

Last spring, I woke in the wee hours of the morning to the sound of someone rearranging my metal deck furniture. The “someone” was a bear. For those living in and near the forests…

“Without a plan, with only an impulse to walk,” is how Ben Shattuck set off on the first of the journeys he shares in Six Walks in the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau. At the…

Todd Davis’s poetry asks to be read aloud, in the woods or streamside. I’ve carried his books into the spitting snow of a March lambing paddock, read them perched on ash stumps…

150 Years of Fisheries Conservation and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fisheries science is often conducted out of sight – in salt marshes and southern bayous, in the hatchery and…

Several years ago, on a wet March morning, more than a hundred robins appeared in my upper pasture, everywhere and hungry. They dashed about the sorry-looking grass, stooping, pecking,…

Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization The Stone Age, marked by our very distant ancestors’ use of stone tools, is commonly accepted as the beginning of human…

New Techniques and Master Recipes for Everything Caught in Lakes, Rivers and Streams, and at Sea If you’re into the hunting, fishing, and foraging lifestyle, chances are you’re…

A Solo Journey to Maine’s New National Monument In her memoir, Through Woods & Waters: A Solo Journey to Maine’s New National Monument, Laurie Apgar Chandler invites readers…

Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms Fungi have long been part of the counterculture movement, and interest is burgeoning as people learn more about the…

Immersing oneself in a place holds expansive potential. John Hanson Mitchell has spent decades exploring Beaver Brook, a stream that winds behind his home in eastern Massachusetts. With a…

Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis From the first pages of his latest book, David Gessner shows that he gets Henry David Thoreau: He argues that Walden, Thoreau’s renowned book…

In his most recent outing, author William Bryant Logan travels far afield to rediscover the lost tradition of coppice culture – a neglected land management system that fueled human life…