Dave Anderson
Host, Something WildNaturalist Dave Anderson is Senior Director of Education for The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, where he has worked for 30 over years. He is responsible for the design and delivery of conservation-related outreach education programs including field trips, tours and presentations to Forest Society members, conservation partners and the general public.
Dave guides field trips on conservation land statewide while teaching about forest ecology, wildlife ecology, forest stewardship and land conservation to introduce both life-long residents and visitors alike to protection and management of New Hampshire forests, farms and open space. His bimonthly column “Forest Journal” appears in the New Hampshire Sunday News, and his quarterly “Nature’s View” columns are a regular feature in the Forest Society’s quarterly magazine Forest Notes.
Dave lives on “Meetinghouse Hill Farm,” a 40-acre certified Tree Farm in rural South Sutton, New Hampshire. The farm includes vegetable and perennial flower gardens, laying hens, Romney sheep, fruit trees, mowed and grazed pastures and an actively-managed pine-oak-hemlock backyard woodlot.
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The elusive yet bold spruce grouse is a little-known N.H. inhabitant that relies on forests that are specifically adapted to colder temperatures. -
Turkeys depend on backyard bird feeders in winter, so it's a good place to start counting flocks to figure out how many wild turkeys are wandering the state. -
It may not seem like it, but the days are slowly lengthening, and there are other bright spots in a cold and windy landscape. -
The weather in New Hampshire’s White Mountains has, over millennia, created forests that are specifically suited to extreme weather conditions. -
An adaptation allows broad-leaved evergreens like rhododendrons to thrive in the doubly-challenging conditions of damp soil and freezing temperatures. -
We see beaver dams in waterways all over the state, but what's going on under all the sticks and mud of a beaver lodge? -
Dave Anderson talks with Ethan Tapper, forester and author of "How to Love a Forest," who says the actions we must take to protect forest ecosystems are often counterintuitive, uncomfortable and even bittersweet. -
We talk with Scott Weidensaul, author and renowned bird migration researcher, about what he calls "the golden age of ornithology." -
Something Wild visits an accessible boardwalk over a salt marsh in our series celebrating access for all to our state's natural beauty. -
We visit the unique ecosystem of the Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve in our series celebrating access for all to our state's natural beauty.
