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Brown is Beautiful
Brown is an important and beloved color on that palette. While shades of brown may never be the shining star of a painting or design, you will struggle to create a complete piece without them.
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Something Wild: How Much Do We Really Know About Deer?
“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.”
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Forest Notes: The Rare Milkweed Garden at the Gardner Forest
In this Forestry Friday, the forestry team takes a trip to the Gardener Forest in Hollis to check in on a population of a rare species of milkweed. (Photo: Sophie Oehler)
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Party Animals
This summer’s rains have fruits and autumn seeds of many forest trees, and waxy fall berries of wetland shrubs and ornamental landscaping, yielding a bumper crop for birds and wildlife.
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Concord Project SEE Brings Students to Forest Society's Merrimack Floodplain
Nearly 300 students, teachers, and parents visited the floodplain as part of Project SEE.
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Something Wild: The Fungus Among Us
Neither plants nor animals, fungi are a kingdom all their own.
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- Something Wild
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Something Wild: Celebrating New Hampshire's Osprey Success Story
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.
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Something Wild: Why the treeline of Mt. Washington is not a line
In this second episode of our series, Dave Anderson of the Forest Society and Chris Martin of NH Audubon are exploring the different forest zones on the flanks of the mountain, below the treeline.
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- Wildlife,
- Something Wild