It's striking how alien and, well, repulsive ticks look in closeup. Probably a good thing, too, that they don't look like puppies or...

Kill your tree(s). Yes, please do; kill your trees. Specifically, kill your Norway maples. All of them (and yes, that purple ("red")...

Looking down as you stroll through the forest you'll likely see the spring ephemerals flowering - trillium, blue cohosh, round and sharp...

A nice blanket of heavy, wet snow to finish our global warming half winter of record warmth and low snowpack. As I hiked through...

The question on everyone's lips and minds - where's the white stuff? Skiers slaloming in slush on Mt. Mansfield in the middle of January...

A week of mid-eighties, mid-July temperatures in what used to be the last vestiges of late winter - climate change is coming at us like a...

This is a new area of learning for me, so of course I ordered the book - "Woody Plants in Winter: A Manual of Common Trees and Shrubs in...