The winter of 2023-24 has been not quite the warmest on record for the Northland, but nearly so. While December and February were contenders for the No. 1 spot, January provided us with a few weeks ...

Both January and February were colder than normal. January’s 4.7 degrees was 6.5 below the normal of 11.2 degrees. This impressive deviation was less than what we experienced in the following month.

Dear Master Gardener: We have some trees along our road that have the bark eaten from them. I don’t think it is from porcupines because the small branches are eaten, too. Any information on this would ...

DEAR WILDLIFE LOVER: I share your fascination with squirrels, which are abundant in New England. Gray squirrels are the most common, followed by red squirrels (which, curiously, are absent from Martha ...

I am always looking for an excuse to learn and write about squirrels, so jumped at the chance to visit the latest arrivals at the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick in York, Maine — orphaned baby ...

Squirrels consistently gnawing at trees can make the leaves die and cause ugly brown spots in your canopy. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor Do you have areas of dead leaves in the canopy of your ...