It’s still early, but it appears another major storm is going to miss New England this weekend. It’s a bummer, but don’t despair—some resorts are still due to pick up some snow this week, according to ...

So the thing about “nature shows” - even this one - is that we tend to talk about plant and animal species in pretty independent terms. "The red-tailed hawk eats this, sounds like that, does this in ...

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Whenever my father came to visit me when I was in college at the University of Vermont, he would insist on hiking Mount Mansfield. Sophie Oehler is communications coordinator at the Forest Society.

Well, I just returned from eight days of hiking in sublime northern New Hampshire (53 miles on the AT, from Pinkham Notch to Franconia through the Presidential Range, Crawford Notch, and the ...

Krummholz, a German term for "crooked wood," describes the stunted trees found in high-altitude or harsh environments. In the White Mountains, krummholz is primarily composed of black spruce and ...