Renata Aylward

Building Merck Forest's new timber frame small animal barn

Spring Ep By Mike Stock, Land Manager | Merck Forest & Farmland Center In April, before the canopy wakes up and hides the sky, the forest floor at Merck Forest & Farmland Center does something remarkable. It blooms. In a matter of days, trout lilies push through last year's leaves, bloodroot opens its white petals to morning light, and spring beauty carpets the ground in pale pink. These are spring ephemerals — woodland wildflowers that have evolved to live their entire above-ground lives in...

On February 12, the federal government finalized a rule removing the legal obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, overturning a determination, backed by decades of scientific review, that those emissions endanger human health. The United States has also withdrawn from international climate negotiations, standing alone among nations in that decision. Merck Forest is not a policy organization; we are a land organization. And we can tell you what we see from here. Winters are warming....