You may have seen scruffy or even bald cardinals at your bird feeder. What causes that, and is it anything to worry about?

Guest-author Brendan Murphy is torn between two loves: bonfires and pileated woodpeckers.

My toddler continues to teach me lessons about nature. On a recent backyard playdate, she taught me not once, but twice.

Guest-author Jennifer J. Lerner gives you the tools to be a Spotted Lanternfly vigilante.

Humans and water go together like peas and carrots, salamanders and vernal pools, summer and ice cream.

This week on MyWoodlot, the Agroforestry Resource Center of CCE Columbia Greene describes how you can promote biodiversity in your backyard.

Establishing baby trees is critical for your woods’ future, but like any parenting, it takes patience and hard work.

High-grading removes the best trees and damages your woods. Turn it around and practice “worst first” forestry to boost your woods’ long-term economic and wildlife values.

If a woodpecker pecks on the ground instead of wood, is it still a woodpecker? Isn’t it a ground-pecker?

The stone wall in front of the office is being demolished, one stone at a time. It isn’t father time taking back his children; it’s the hand of man removing what has become “untidy”, “unsightly”, and time-worn.

MyWoodlot team member Tom Pavlesich has posted about his experience tapping the maple trees in his backyard and then using the sap to make maple syrup. If Tom’s posts have inspired you to tap some maples yourself, one of the first things you’ll need to know is how to identify different kinds of maple trees

You didn’t think you were going to take a chainsaw safety class and not fell a 15” tree, did you?

Since I had a good time nature journaling at Leon Levy Preserve, I decided to bring my notebook out with me again to the Nature Conservancy’s West Branch Preserve in Hamden, NY.

I took out my journal and began to write. I started by describing my hike and my experiences, making sure to focus on my emotions and sensory observations.

Then we heard the sound of a large animal moving through the brush…