THIS IS THE TIME of year when my yard feels bursting with life, as the neighborhood welcomes eastern phoebes, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and broad-winged hawks back from their long migrations. At the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, where I wo…
This is New Hampshire Audubon’s Rare Bird Alert for Monday, June 5.
While spring leaf development of New Hampshire’s oak trees was severely affected by an unusually deep late-season frost on May 18, it is unlikely the trees sustained permanent damage, according to the N.H. Division of Forests and Lands.
While spring leaf development of New Hampshire’s oak trees was severely affected by an unusually deep late-season frost on May 18, it is unlikely the trees sustained permanent damage, according to the N.H. Division of Forests and Lands.
IN FALL 2019, someone at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences (VINS) Nature Center invited me to visit their newly finished Forest Canopy Walk. It was an intriguing invitation, but I did not find time to drive to Quechee. Ultimately, I kind of forgot about it. But recently I was headed …
Portsmouth has been celebrating a 400th birthday all year but in many respects it’s all been leading up to Saturday’s spectacle — a grand parade featuring 73 groups.
It probably felt like an entire season of “North Woods Law” squeezed into 48 or so hours.
WE’VE ALL heard the idiom, “The early bird gets the worm.” When it comes to invasive jumping worms, unfortunately, there are more than enough to go around. These invasive worms can consume excessive amounts of organic matter and leaf litter in a garden or forest, to the point that it becomes…
ANIMALS ARE moving around for various reasons — coming out of hibernation, traveling to new territories, mating or, in the case of turtles, laying eggs in the perfect soft warm sand on the sides of roads. Spring is the season of road carnage. It is almost unbearable to drive around.
CONCORD — New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHFG) fisheries biologists have confirmed the presence of non-native, invasive green sunfish in the Piscataquog River downstream from the Weare Reservoir, also known as Horace Lake, and at Waukewan Lake.
CONCORD — New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHFG) fisheries biologists have confirmed the presence of non-native, invasive green sunfish in the Piscataquog River downstream from the Weare Reservoir, also known as Horace Lake, and at Waukewan Lake.
GOFFSTOWN — Evergreen, the 1-acre woodland garden with more than 400 mature rhododendrons, will be open to the public free of charge Friday through Sunday, June 2-4.
COLEBROOK — With funding lined up, the removal this year or next of the Washburn Mill Dam on the Mohawk River is shaping up to be addition by subtraction for native brook trout, fishermen and the environment.
HEAR YE, hear ye! The queens have emerged! We’re talking about bumble bees (genus Bombus). For several weeks each spring, any bumble bee you see is a queen — and she’s very hard at work. She must construct her kingdom.
The morning started promisingly enough, with two birds gobbling on the roost shortly after the first rays of light started to brighten the sky. Sitting in a ground blind tucked into a corner where a large field met an even larger woodlot — turkey decoys set up in front of us — excitement was…
TYNGSBORO, Massachusetts — The Colony is a one-stop shop for all things bees, but the buzzing local shop will soon be featured outside the Tyngsboro hive.
A New Hampshire man died Saturday afternoon while hiking in western Maine.
FIRST, LET ME preface this column by saying that I have been keeping one bird feeder with sunflower seeds out during the day. It is typically emptied out before dark so most nights I don’t take it in but just refill it in the morning. I will stop doing this soon since my bird feeders hang in…
On Wednesday at 11 a.m., The Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund will host a virtual remembrance event, and New Hampshire resident Rick Lang will debut a new song, “The Great Stone Face.” Gov. Chris Sununu is expected to sign bill HB 96 into law, formally declaring it Old Man of the Mountain Day.
C onquering New Hampshire’s 48 4,000-foot mountains is a challenge that should be embraced by only the fittest of outdoor enthusiasts.
Editor’s note: The following column was originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Dec. 20, 2014.
Camping season is here! While picking out the perfect sleeping bag may cause a dilemma, finding the best campsite will be a piece of cake. Wyoming has just been named the No. 1 hotspot for campers this year.
With the help of $9.3 million in grants provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Wildlife Habitat Program has conserved 18 properties totaling some 12,000 acres over the past seven years.
A Vermont hiker lost consciousness during a medical emergency Thursday night in Walpole and discovered when she awoke that she had impaled herself on a stick, authorities said.
CAMPTON — The White Mountain National Forest will be conducting prescribed burns throughout the national forest this spring as conditions allow. Fire managers use prescribed fire to mimic the natural role of fire on the landscape and help maintain or restore ecosystems to a healthier conditi…
MY TRIP TO the Galapagos Islands was everything I had hoped it would be. These 13 islands formed primarily of not-so-delicate volcanic lava rock, are nothing if not unique.
Fishing in many of New Hampshire’s managed trout ponds has begun for the season.
I’ll never forget the first time I received the results of a questionnaire about myself that was filled in by my kids, in honor of Mother’s Day. It’s always funny to see yourself through the eyes of a child — even when that child reports to their teacher that your favorite activity is “saying no.”
I’M OFTEN TEMPTED to peek at the eggs inside a phoebe’s nest when the parents leave it to forage for food. I’ve picked up a fallen robin’s egg shell and admired its delicate color and smoothness. I’ve marveled at the primal determination of the chick that pecked its way out of an egg to beco…
Rescuers hiked more than six miles to help an injured woman on Mt. Chocorua in Albany Thursday afternoon.
A Groveton man was badly injured when he lost control of his dirt bike and was thrown off Thursday afternoon in Jefferson, authorities said.
