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The Outside Story

The Outside Story is a series of weekly ecology articles that has been appearing in newspapers across New Hampshire and Vermont since 2002. The series is underwritten by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Upper Valley Region and edited by Dave Mance at Northern Woodlands. To suggest a topic for a future article, inquire about writing for the series, or learn how to bring the series to your local paper, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) image.

To search the Outside Story archive, type your query into the search box in the top-left corner of this page, followed by ‘site:northernwoodlands.org/outside_story’. For example, “bumblebee site:northernwoodlands.org/outside_story”. This will restrict your search just to the Outside Story portion of our website.

Some of our favorite articles from the first four years of the series have been collected in The Outside Story - local writers explore the nature of New Hampshire and Vermont, available in the Northern Woodlands online shop and at bookstores across the region.

“This is the finest, and most timeless, almanac I’ve ever seen. For those of us who cohabit northern New England with the bear and the grosbeak and the trillium, it is the single easiest (and most charming) introduction to our neighbors, to our place, and to the passage of time that’s yet been written.” - Bill McKibben

Latest Newspaper Article

Life in the Wild: Live Hard, Die Young

Have you noticed a few more wisps of gray of late? An ache in your joints? Crow’s feet clawing around the corners of your eyes? If so, you’re well on your way to becoming a victim of one of the leading causes of death in the world today: aging. Known to biologists as “senescence,” it’s the systemic degradation of an organism’s bodily functions until, at long last, something vital (a liver, a lung) gives and the whole system goes… (more)

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