Dear friends of the Joyce Kilmer Slickrock Wilderness, June is here, and that means lots of blooms.  The famous Flame Azaleas on Hooper...

If you're welcome the new year with a walk in the woods, you're in for a treat. Hikers will notice that there is one deciduous tree that...

At this time of year in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, you might notice some very special plants along the trail. They are called...

During the part of the year when the trees lose their leaves, we can find surprises that have been present all along, revealed to our...

A number of species of Gentian, a very beautiful wildflower, bloom in the midst of autumn after the reds and magentas of ironweed and Joe...

This week the land is full of blooming white snakeroot. A relative to Joe Pye Weed, the white flower of this plant looks fuzzy. Only...

I have always believed that the upper loop of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Loop Trail, with its huge Tulip Poplar trees, was a healing place....

Jewelweed or Touch Me Not is a plant many of us are familiar with. We actually have two species of jewelweed in our area, one with...

Have you looked down at your pants after a hike and wondered what all those little, flat green things are? Where do they come from? I’d...

This blog is a cooking lesson. I enjoy foraging for wild foods. A sure sign of the upcoming autumn in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest...

Late summer is the time I see a very special fungus growing along the trail in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. You have to look very...

As you walk along the upper loop of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Loop trail in August, you will notice a plant with strikingly odd...

Indian Cucumber (Medeola virginiana) is a plant that can be found anywhere along the double loop trail in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial...

Most of us are familiar with “Ginseng”, the plant that is an adaptogen and grows native in our country. There are five plants in the...

Cleavers is an easily missed plant which can be found almost all year round except in the coldest month of the winter. Many view it as a...

Black Cohosh is one of the most beautiful plants that bloom in July through early September. However, it is the strong odor of the...

July is the time to find the glorious, apricot-scented, Chanterelle mushrooms, allegedly one the most popular mushrooms in the United...

I am often asked about what caused the death of the glorious Eastern Hemlocks in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. The tiny insect is...

The sunlight reaches the ground level of the lower loop of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest loop trail more easily than it did twenty...

Indian Pipe is one of the more unusual plants to be found in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness. It goes by several other names;...