November is an understated month, its grays and browns predominant in the forest now that the trees have mostly shed

“The walk to take today is the walk you took yesterday,” says John Burroughs in his signature essay “A Sharp

In Alice Walker’s famous novel, The Color Purple, purple in nature is a symbol of all that is common, but

No single feature so defines our region as does the Shawangunk Ridge. The long white battlement of this escarpment is

Anyone who spends time outdoors at this season is likely to notice that many wild creatures have begun to synchronize

No greater consolation can be found for the waning of summer than to go on a berry-picking expedition. Right now

Sometimes the best way to appreciate our fleeting and miraculous existence on this planet is to study creatures whose brief

When Jack-in-the-pulpit rises from the moist earth of the forest, we know that spring has arrived in full force. This