Photo album: Fauna meets flora in Roxbury

A spectacular show of life and color fills the island garden in the center of Roxbury Thursday afternoon as feeding and crawling creatures gather.

Conservationist Emily Ecker discusses energy

The history of Inland Woods, a brief lesson

Buck’s Ledge Community Forest holds first meeting

Stop and smell the flowers

Maine awarded $7 million to restore stream crossings on private roads

A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help restore some of Maine’s highest-value aquatic networks from fragmentation and degradation.

The first comprehensive guide to Maine’s birdlife in some 70 years gets everything right

Peter Vickery did not live to see his life's work published, but 'Birds of Maine' - engaging, gorgeous and packed with information - is a great testament to a great ornithologist.

Backyard nature: Swimming serpents

Lots of snakes in the yard means I live in a healthy ecosystem so I'm rolling with it.

Backyard nature: spring is a cruel season

Spring draws amphibians to pools and ponds where they breed together and feed each other.

Someone in Maine gunned down the last wild passenger pigeon

Though a captured bird remained alive in a zoo for another decade, nobody ever saw another wild passenger pigeon after a hunter shot one out of the sky in Bar Harbor in 1904.