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From the Ground Up: Conservation in New England — 78 episodes
Beginning with Habitat: Advancing Conservation in Maine’s Most Important Landscapes - Justin Schlawin
Bookshelf: Numinosity: A New England Forester’s Search for the Ineffable by Robert T. Perschel - Liz Thompson
Another Epistle to Be Left in the Earth - Robert T. Perschel
A Climb to the Sky: Discovering Biodiversity on a Maine Mountain - Christopher Reidy
Cultivating Biodiversity: A Soil Profile of a New England Farm - Joshua T. Anderson
The Last of the Least and the Best of the Rest: An Interview with Larry Master
On the Road with Real Naturalists - Brian Donahue
The Finest Kind: Remembering Lobsterwoman Jean Symonds - Paul Breeden
Bookshelf: Tending Your Forest: A Guide to Ecological Forest Stewardship in the Eastern and Central United States by Paul Catanzaro and Anthony D’Amato - Liz Thompson
Visit to Harpswell - Scudder Parker
Wellfleet - Angela Patten
Edge Erosion - Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Food Farming in the Sea: An Interview with Mussel and Oyster Farmer Carter Newell - Liz Thompson
New England Policy Chronicle: Updates from Around the Region - Alex Redfield
Modeling Future Scenarios of Massachusetts Forests: A Tale of Resilience - Meg Graham MacLean
Wilderness Comes Home, 25 Years Later - Christopher McGrory Klyza
Seeing the Forest from Above: How a Good Map can be a Game-Changer for Old-Growth Forest Conservation - John M. Hagan
Old-Growth Forest Network: Twelve Years of Creating Access to the Ancients - Joan Maloof
Cat on the Mountain - Robert T. Perschel
New England Policy Chronicle: Updates from Around the Region - Alex Redfield
Rewilding Our Forests, Rewilding Ourselves: The 2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference—A Call to Action - Lynda V. Mapes
At the Log Decomposition Site in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a Visitation - Derek Sheffield
Conserving Land, Creating Homes: Lessons from Vermont Housing & Conservation Partnership by Gus Seelig
New England Policy Chronicle: Updates from Around the Region - Alex Redfield
Regional Conservation Partnerships: Powering Community-Centered Land Conservation - Marissa Latshaw
The Price We Pay to Play: Outdoor Recreation’s Impact on Nature - Nancy Zimny
Good Neighbors - Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Milk, Eggs, Bread - Neil Shepard
Husk Cherry - Catherine Menyhart
Power from the Sun: Hope in a Shattered World - Bill McKibben
From the Town Up: The Power of Planning Locally - Jens Hawkins-Hilke
Communities and Land: Working Together Toward a Shared Vision - David Foster
Street Trees in Coastal Connecticut: How Four Communities are Preserving Nature and Protecting Against Climate Change - Nadine Canter
From the Hudson to the Taconics: An Ecological and Cultural Field Guide to the Habitats of Columbia County, New York - David Foster
Magalloway Conservation Initiative Aims to Protect 78,000 Acres in Western Maine - Marissa Latshaw
Wolves in the West, Wolves in the East: Views from Wyoming - Liz Thompson
Niweskok’s Seeds of Hope: Redistributing Power by Rematriating Land - Alex Redfield
Beaver and The People: Amiskwog kah Nemisilianuwog - Nohham Cachat-Schilling
Six Pathways to Farmland Access: Models from around New England - Alex Redfield and Marissa Latshaw
Moose Bog - Scudder Parker
What Makes Farming Work? A Conversation about Farmland Access with Maine Farmland Trust - Alex Redfield
Farmland Access: Where Farms, Food, and Communities Come Together
Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of From the Ground Up!
Election Night in Sapmi - Robert T. Perschel
Rising Red - Sean Prentiss
Funding the Future: A New Program to Support Connecticut Land Trusts - Marissa Latshaw
The Massachusetts Commitment to Forest Reserves: Major Progress and Questions - David Foster
Will Wolves Recolonize the Northeast? A Reader Response - John Glowa
The Turning Point: Cooperating for Forest Conservation - Jamey Fidel
Spring 2025 New England Policy Chronicle - Alex Redfield
Pondering a Conservation Ethic: Honoring All Nature. Honoring All People - David Marvin
The Maine Woods Initiative: The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Approach to Ecological Forestry - Carolyn Ziegra
Exemplary Forestry: Integrating Climate Resilience, Biodiversity, and Wood Production - Robert Perschel
Worst-First and Femelschlag: Ecological Forestry with the Foundation for Sustainable Forests - Guy Dunkle and Annie Socci Maloney
The Practice of Ecological Forestry: Seeking Diversity, Balance, and Adaptation in the Woods - Rick Morrill
Relationships: The Essence of Low Impact Forestry - Sam F. Brown
Putting Forests First: Ecological Forestry and an Ethical Worldview - David Foster
Ecological Forestry: Origins and Principles - Tony D’Amato
Ecological Forestry and Slow Wood: Perspectives from Around the Region - Brian Donahue
Lie Down: A Forester’s Directive - Robert T. Perschel
The White Monsters - Judy Dow
Wild Humans - Robert T. Perschel
An Open Question in Orange - Cathy Stanton
Chasing Nature, Chasing Hope - Liz Thompson
One Wildland at a Time - Richard Farrell
Climate-Smart Forestry Gets Underway - Tinsley Hunsdorfer and Marissa Latshaw
Ndakinna - Joseph Bruchac
Golden Delicate - Bill Drislane
star shower - Mary Katherine Creel
Sowing Seeds: Vermonters Gather for Conservation - Liz Thompson
When Land Trusts Gather: Inspiration From Around the Country at the 2024 LTA Rally - Liz Thompson
Making Peace with Nature: Inspirations from COP 16 - Walter Poleman
The Paradox of Pestilence: Ecological Hope in a Landscape of Tree Death - Colby Galliher
Uncharted Floodwaters: Recovering, Rebuilding, and Adapting in Montpelier - Nadine Canter
Land and Law: An Interview with Representative Amy Sheldon
A Wolf at the Door - Walter Medwid
The Right to Thrive: Wolves, Deep Ecology, and the Illusion of Separateness - Susie O'Keeffe
Wolves are Expanding in Agricultural Denmark: Why Not New England? - David Foster