Many articles mention the importance of brush piles as habitat for various wildlife species, but we thought it would be useful to show the construction of a recent one in Central Maine to highlight some important features.

Picture Post is a project of the University of New Hampshire. Picture Posts are installed at forests, parks, and schools - even backyards. There are posts throughout New England and scattered across the United States. Each post guides visitors to photograph a location in nine orientations. Photos are dated, geotagged, uploaded, and shared on this site.

Springtime flowers are so easy to miss, blooming too briefly in the midst of our hectic lives. Here’s a sampling of sightings from this year, with the hopes of offering a wildflower walk in 2020 at our Yankee Woodlot.

Spring is finally here!  This short window between snow and black flies is the perfect time to get out and see what’s happening in your woodland.  A number of our non-native invasive plants are easy to spot this time of year, giving you the opportunity to identify potential invaders and begin to educate yourself on the management choices to be made.