Dave Anderson
Host, Something WildNaturalist Dave Anderson is Senior Director of Education for The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, where he has worked for over years. He is responsible for the design and delivery of conservation-related outreach education programs including field trips, tours and presentations to Forest Society members, conservation partners and the general public.
Dave guides field trips on conservation land statewide while teaching about forest ecology, wildlife ecology, forest stewardship and land conservation to introduce both life-long residents and visitors alike to protection and management of New Hampshire forests, farms and open space. His bimonthly column “Forest Journal” appears in the New Hampshire Sunday News, and his quarterly “Nature’s View” columns are a regular feature in the Forest Society’s quarterly magazine Forest Notes.
Dave lives on “Meetinghouse Hill Farm,” a 40-acre certified Tree Farm in rural South Sutton, New Hampshire. The farm includes vegetable and perennial flower gardens, laying hens, Romney sheep, fruit trees, mowed and grazed pastures and an actively-managed pine-oak-hemlock backyard woodlot.
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'Tis the season for Christmas carols! Something Wild decided to rewrite the "Twelve Days of Christmas" and put the focus on local birds.
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The North American river otter population is doing swimmingly! They are found in abundance in New Hampshire’s waterways, but they can be hard to spot until winter brings them out to play on the ice and snow.
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From unexpected sightings in backyard gardens to near-misses — or worse — on our roads, white-tailed deer seem to be everywhere. An extensive study is uncovering new insights into this iconic creature of eastern forests.
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Learning about where native bats roost in winter can help us protect the bat population in N.H.
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This has been an epic season for finding mushrooms. We're just beginning to learn how important the fungi kingdom is for forest health.
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Autumn in New Hampshire is a wonderful time to watch and observe some easily recognizable stages of natural cycles. But there are varying degrees of “cyclical” activity that can be quite complicated.
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New Hampshire's osprey population, in jeopardy 40 years ago, now thrives. We talk about the key to the raptor’s success with a researcher who monitors the population, and find out how to identify an osprey as it migrates.
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We don't often think of trees when we speak of harvest. But as a society, we consume forest products as much as we do farm products. And sometimes when a tree comes down, it's not to make room for another human edifice, but another tree.
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The sound of crickets invokes warm summer evenings; Nathanial Hawthorne called it "audible stillness." Listen closely to the cricket song, and by doing some math, you can figure out how warm it is!
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In the Something Wild series about Mount Washington’s ecological zones, we explore the distinctly different forest zones on the flanks of Mt. Washington, and discover why birch trees shed their bark.