NEWSLETTERS

October 2024

  • The Mystical Rowan Tree and the Mountain Ash
  • Executive Director’s Note: Woodsy Skills and Forest Gardening
  • Friends of the Forest: Heather Thomson
  • GMF’s Impact: Charcoal Pile Replica Opening and more
  • Seasonal Forest Notices

November 2024

  • Forest Summit
  • Winter’s Rest
  • Behind the Scenes at GMF

Jan 2024

  • GMF Expands Online Video Offerings
  • Returning the American Chestnut to Eastern Forests: Part 1
  • Hamlet of Heathens

Feb 2024

  • Meet the New ED
  • Return of the American Chestnut
  • Breeding Season for Bobcats
  • GMF’s 78th Sugaring Season

March 2024

  • The State of the Sugar Maple
  • News from the Forest
  • Collaborations
  • Upcoming Programs

April/May 2024

  • What’s Up with Crowded Trillium?
  • News from the Forest & Collaborations
  • Upcoming Programs
  • A New Friend of the Forest

June/July 2024

  • Forest Giants
  • Summer 2024 Interns
  • News from the Forest & Collaborations
  • Upcoming Programs

August/Sept 2024

  • Charismatic Megafauna: The Moose of GMF
  • “Mystery Forge” by David K. Leff
  • Tour de Forest and Upcoming Programs
  • Moth Night and Recent Programs
  • Moose Tracks–Staying Safe 

July 2023

  • Storm Damage Report
  • Celebrating 75 Years of Interns
  • Meet our 2023 Interns
  • Charcoal Pile Construction

August 2023

  • Getting the Hang of It
  • The Basics
  • Ax Producers in Connecticut
  • The Physics of Axes
  • The Metaphysics of Axe

September 2023

  • Join Us for Open Forest Day
  • Fungus Among Us
  • Fall Foliage Forecast

October 2023

  • Open Forest Day
  • GMF Forest Inventory
  • Halloween Flora and Fauna

November 2023

  • GMF Releases Video Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Forest Intern Program

December 2023

  • Great Mountain Forest wishes you happy holidays and all the best in the new year!

January 2023

  • Fall decrease in observed wildlife at GMF
  • Spotlight on the forest: high pocket swamp trail
  • Lecture series presentation and the FAQ
  • Weather… or not

February 2023

  • Deer antlers- February’s gift from the forest
  • Spotlight on the forest: the overlook trail
  • The Firewood Poem

March 2023

  • First in Connecticut
  • The science of sap
  • Old sugarhouse

April 2023

  • Can I eat it?
  • Spring ephemerals
  • “The most wonderful place to do research”

May 2023

  • Earth Day Owls
  • Tom Blagden’s portfolio joining GMF
  • Deep Time Under GMF

June 2023

  • GMF Staff in the Spotlight as Educators
  • Do You Know as Much as a North Canaan 7th Grader?
  • Quiz on Tools of the Trade

December 2022

  • Holiday Spirit at GMF
  • Learn Like an Intern
  • Spotlight on the Crossover Trail

November 2022

  • Calling all Star-gazers!
  • Learn Like an Intern
  • Spotlight Series

October 2022

  • Addition to the Staff
  • Fruits of the Forest: Oak Apple Galls
  • GMF Staff Member a Featured Speaker
  • Spotlight on the Tamarack Trial
  • Fall Foliage Colors – A Matter of Pigment

August 2022

  • Intern Recap
  • Gearing up for Migration!
  • The Mighty Fisher
  • Crossbill Sighting
  • Trading Places
  • Wildflower Watch

July 2022

  • In Memory of David K. Leff
  • Thank You, Jody!
  • Meet the Interns
  • Invasion of the Kids
  • Those Who Came Before
  • The Return
  • The Society
  • Wildflower Watch

June 2022

  • Battle Beetles
  • A Tradition Forged in Fire
  • Smile For the Camera
  • Wildflower highlights
  • Treats of the Forest
  • Sightings of the Month
  • A Partridge in a Pear Tree?

November 2021

  • Forest Wetlands Benefit GMF
  • Wetlands Store Carbon
  • Vernal Pools
  • Nurse Logs
  • FEMC’s Climate Change Monitoring Tool
  • Purple Pitcher Plant
  • GMF Intern Looks Back

October 2021

  • Health Benefits of the Forest
  • Awe in Nature
  • Growing Up with the Trees
  • Children & Nature Network
  • #NatureForAll
  • Park Rx
  • GMF’s New Recreational Trail Map and Descriptions

SEPTEMBER 2021

  • Ecosystem Services at GMF
  • What does the Forest ask of us?
  • Plant of the month: Fringed gentian

AUGUST 2021

  • Beetlemania comes to GMF:
  • Hemlock Woolly Adelgid might have met its match
  • Interns get juiced about beetles
  • Intern days with McClean Wildlife Refuge
  • Annual intern picnic
  • July rainfall

JULY 2021

  • Managing the Forest for Wildlife
  • Introducing Intern Caleb May
  • Winged Creatures of GMF
  • Forest Food: Beaked Hazelnut

JUNE 2021

  • Intern Takeover issue:
  • Sustainable Forest Management
  • Meet GMF Interns Rissa and Joe
  • Working at the Sawmill by Joe
  • Single Tree Selection at GMF by Rissa
  • Insect Under the Microscope: The Pine Sawyer

MAY 2021

  • Red-spotted Newts
  • Fishers in the Forest
  • Snapping a Snapping Turtle
  • GMF Welcomes 2021 Interns
  • HVRHS Students Learn from GMF
  • Bear Necessities
  • Thrillin’ about Trillium

APRIL 2021

  • GMF’s New Mission Statement,
  • FEMC’s CT Chapter,
  • GMF Volunteer Tom Blagden Earns NANPA Award,
  • The Legacy of Elliott Bronson,
  • Spring Ephemerals,
  • 1% for the Planet

MARCH 2021

  • Women in forestry-profiles of Jess Wikle, Leanne Marvin, Mari Cullerton, Eve Cullerton,
  • Moose census results

FEBRUARY 2021

  • GMF accepted
    into IUCN
  • What is
    IUCN?
  • 90th anniversary
    of weather collection

JANUARY 2021

  • Perspectives
    on the forest in winter by Jody and Tom Blagden

NOVEMBER 2020

  • Witch hazel,
  • GMF role
    in wild turkey reintroduction,
  • Solar at
    Yale Camp

OCTOBER 2020

  • Almost 90 years of continuous weather data
  • Carole Cheah: research using weather data

SEPTEMBER 2020

  • Carbon issue
  • Carbon vocab
    glossary

SEPTEMBER 2020

  • Carbon Information Fact Sheet adapted from September 20 newsletter

AUGUST 2020

  • Intern tradition,
  • intern profile,
  • Tom Blagden bio and intro

JULY 2020

  • GC3,
  • IUCN application,
  • FEMC

Stories About GMF

Forest Giants

  • Chapter by David Leff

Mystery Forge

  • Chapter by David Leff

Winter Trecking by Jody Bronson

Winter’s Rest November 2024

  • Article by Mary O’Neil

Moose on the Mountain

  • GMF studies moose impact

Family Works to Preserve a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Forests

  • protecting a legacy

5 more secret hiking spots in the Northwest Corner

  • CT Insider by Douglas P. Clement

The Ancient Forest In Connecticut That’s Right Out Of A Storybook

  • GMF offers walks through old growth forests, colorful wildflowers, and serene ponds. 

New Great Mountain Forest program aims to teach individuals ways protect and utilize trees

  • New Haven Register by Joseph Tucci

A Fieldbook: Great Mountain Forest

  • Michael Gaige and Yonatan Glogower

JANUARY 2021

  • Into the Woods – Why Your Kids Need Nature

JANUARY 2021

  • Fractals Over Pixels: Nature’s Healing Patterns

DECEMBER 2020

  • Home Grown Magic

FEBRUARY 2021

  • GREAT MOUNTAIN FOREST BECOMES IUCN MEMBER

JANUARY 2020

  • A Love Story

PRESENTATIONS

Norfolk Hub Talks presents A Local Scientific Perspective on Our Changing Climate with Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Tamara Muruetagoiena