Northern Woodlands

Virginia Barlow

Virginia Barlow works as a consulting forester at Redstart Consulting as well as writing and editing for Northern Woodlands. She has lived in Corinth since graduating from college the first time, except for spending two years in Burlington, Vermont, when she went to college for the second time. She serves on the town's planning commission and as the town tree warden.

Finding material for the magazine's tree species, insect and disease profiles, and for the weekly calendar forces her to spend time outdoors, as do gardening, beekeeping, messing around with firewood, and just general messing around.

She visits the Caribbean each year to spend time with her partner, Chris Doyle, and to sail, fish, snorkel, and learn about island plants and animals. Her Caribbean trips provided the material for her book, The Nature of the Islands, which she is in the process of updating.

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Dave Mance III

Dave Mance III is the editor of Northern Woodlands magazine and The Outside Story column. Dave splits his time between Corinth and Shaftsbury, Vermont, where he’s part of a four-generations-old family sugaring operation. When not working he enjoys all manner of outdoor pursuits, including, as this picture indicates, amateur archeology. This is charcoal residue from a 1800s coke kiln in southern Vermont.

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Meghan Oliver

As assistant editor at Northern Woodlands, Meghan has rounded out her dream of working with her favorite two things – words and birds – partnering her editing work with her position as an avian wildlife rehabilitator at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Outside the working world, Meghan is slowly learning to pick the banjo, likes to read about the Civil War, and greatly enjoys anthropomorphizing her hens and roosters.

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Amy Peberdy

Amy Peberdy gained experience in magazine production from the printing side, having worked for many years at the company that prints Northern Woodlands. Still, somewhere in the back of her mind, she always knew that she’d give up her 45-mile commute as a customer service rep at the printer and put her expertise to work five minutes from home at Northern Woodlands.

Amy manages the office, which includes the circulation of the magazine, procuring the advertisements within it, and overseeing the organization’s business operations. A strong advocate of “every picture tells a story,” her interest and education in the visual arts inform the development of our outreach materials, advertisements, and the feng shui of the office.

Amy's cabinetmaker husband Bill and she both work in their hometown. She feels very fortunate to have a job she loves in the place she feels most connected: a rural Northeastern town where there are thousands more trees than cars.

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Emily Simone Rowe

As the operations coordinator, Emily is responsible for circulation, the Northern Woodlands Goes to School program, the website and social media platforms, and assisting the executive director. When she’s not at work she’s likely farming on her sunny patch of land, hanging with her little son Arlo, or studying about the Shakers, an interest she’s thus far been unable to shake. Though Emily’s a vegetarian, she has been known to eat venison stew when presented to her.

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