Forest Society Blog - News & Features

Are your local birds dependent on bird feeders? Are we doing them any great service by providing supplemental food during these coldest months of the year? The general consensus is no. 

Relatively rapid leaf movement is one cold-adaptation for hardy broad-leaved evergreens that grow near the northern limit of their range in New Hampshire.

Forests growing at New Hampshire’s highest elevations in the White Mountains experience the most extreme conditions in the Northeast. 

Winter adaptations in other species in New Hampshire have allowed them to flourish in the cold.

Too bad the spruce grouse is so little known, because it’s got to be the most audacious of the gallinaceous...

“Deer are amazing creatures,” says Anderson. “There are lots of reasons to know more about deer, and learning about deer allows us to learn more about forests.”

Neither plants nor animals, fungi are a kingdom all their own.

Osprey nests have become a common sight in New Hampshire. But that was not the case forty years ago, when N.H.’s osprey population was in peril.