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Forest Journal: A Few More Days of Morel Season
There is one mushroom that bucks the seasonal trend, sprouting brazenly in spring with enough chutzpah to drive the local mushroom enthusiasts crazy: the morel.
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![a smiling naturalist holds a spotted turtle moved from road](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/spotted%2520turtle%2520w%2520Sarah%2520Kern.jpg?h=707772c7&itok=Q2K4h4o7)
Turtle Nesting Season - Why Did The Turtle Cross The Road?
The slow journey to and from ancestral nesting grounds often takes turtles across busy roadways.
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![A bluebird perches on a branch in winter.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/SW_bluebird_courtesyGlennCoppelmann_5-6-22.jpg?h=a5eb5da0&itok=9US5Wfx0)
Something Wild: How You Can Help Bluebirds
Bluebirds are a familiar harbinger of spring, and they're also a conservation success story.
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![Looking up at a white ash tree outside the home of the author.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/FN_Ash%2520Tree_Stacie%2520Hernandez_RSS.jpg?h=1d181f1c&itok=pumeZ2_9)
Forest Notes: The Future of Ash Trees in New England
What happens when a non-native herbivore sets up shop in New Hampshire?
![Unfurlig fiddleheads shine in the early morning light in a floodplain forest](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Floodplain_Fiddleheads_Spring_EllenKenny_Edited-1.jpg?h=4b9249d6&itok=CZdfLQv-)
Something Wild: Celebrating Earth Day (Literally)
The increasing angle of the late April sun and warming of the soil are agents of great spring transformations.
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![A yellow crocus pokes through the snow.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/spring-awakening-3132112_1920.jpg?h=6a613df1&itok=_zecuAeg)
Forest Journal: Spring Rx provides natural and spiritual renewal
Renewal of life — birds and blossoms — provide solace in times of stress.
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A Big Night Coming
With rain and warm temperatures in the forecast, tonight could be the big night in many regions of the state.
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![Field Forester Steve Junkin holds eggs laid in a vernal pool at Tebbetts Hill Reservation in Farmington.](/sites/default/files/styles/700x380/public/d7/Steve%2520at%2520vernal%2520pool.jpg?h=a92f03cd&itok=xqdWrWy0)
Forestry Friday: Vernal Pools & Forestry
With the warm wet weather and the onset of spring, this is one of the best times of the year to plan and lay out a timber harvest.