Natural History
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Welcome to the Alpine Zone
The area above treeline in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is called the Alpine Zone. It is an inhospitable…
Read More » Moose Jaw – A Real One
I hiked past a moose skeleton on my last Appalachian trail section hike through the Mahoosuc Range, which crosses the…
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Bear’s Head Tooth Fungus
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become fascinated by the different types of mushrooms and fungus growing in the New…
Read More » Learning How to Identify Trees
I was out hiking last weekend in the Middlesex Fells just outside of Boston. I am working on a project…
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How to Read the Forested Landscape
I just finished reading an incredible book called Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, authored by…
Read More » The Bark of The American Beech Tree
When I was hiking near Canada on the Long Trail last weekend, I saw a lot of beech trees in…
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Red-spotted Newts
I took a long day hike this morning in search of the Catskills Aqueduct which flows underground through the Mohonk…
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Rock Tripe
Rock tripe is an edible lichen found in eastern parts of the US that is commonly found on rock faces…
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Porcupine Country
When we think about which wild animal encounters to avoid in the backcountry, bears, snakes, and mice are on the…
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A Bear’s Sense of Smell
If someone were to ask you, “how does a bear smell,” you could answer in two ways. Bears smell real…
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Black Fly Season
Black fly season occurs from mid-March to mid-July in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, north through New York and New England,…
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