Forests

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.

Officials are reminding residents to be careful with fires and wood stove ash.

Most studies looking at large-scale environmental changes analyze one shift at a time. But UNH researchers looked at two effects of burning fossil fuels: soil warming up and nitrogen levels rising.

Red en New Hampshire comenzó a recolectar donaciones. Hay apoyo gratis disponible con el proceso legal de cambio de nombres. 20 comunidades comienzan programas de energía comunitaria.

People should avoid touching the hairy caterpillars with distinctive orange markings since they can cause rashes.

There's a reason you may never have found a shed antler in the woods, despite New Hampshire's population of approximately 100,000 deer (not to mention a few thousand moose). A whole host of forest-dwellers recognize the value of nutrients provided by found antlers.

In the Something Wild series about Mount Washington’s ecological zones, we explore the distinctly different forest zones on the flanks of Mt. Washington, and discover why birch trees shed their bark.

What a hornet wasp might use to sting a human, these wasps use to lay their eggs inside their host: the emerald ash borer.

New Hampshire forests have been defoliated for the second year in a row by the invasive caterpillar now known as the spongy moth. But there is a native bird who benefits from the outbreak.

There's a rare and special riverside forest not far from downtown Concord, along the banks of the Merrimack River. It's a silver maple floodplain forest, and it's remained virtually unchanged despite centuries of agricultural and industrial growth along the river.