Matthew Dickerson
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Matthew Dickerson: Boosting native plants to promote nature’s lifecycle
A year and a half ago, my wife, Deborah, bought an Extractigator. What on earth is an Extractigator? The short answer is that it’s a device for yanking…
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Matthew Dickerson: Let’s consider spawning salmon and hydropower without a dam
The phrase “wicked problems” has been around since at least the early 1970s. It refers to challenges that typically have no correct solution, but only different options of…
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Matthew Dickerson: Vermont offers opportunities to see swimmers and creepy crawlies
Earlier this week, my wife and I took our two-year-old grandson B to the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain to see some fishes and turtles and frogs…
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Matthew Dickerson: Monkton woman teaches Vt. youths to x-country ski
It was early January 2018, a year we actually had winter. Our Christmas present to our three sons that year was taking them and their significant others on…
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Dickerson creates stories inside and outside the classroom
There aren’t a lot of similarities between Matthew Dickerson’s work as a computer science professor at Middlebury College and his literary endeavors as a published author.
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Matthew Dickerson: Eruption created awe
Vermonters may have woken up on June 6, 1912, thinking it was a normal day.
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Matthew Dickerson: Winter walking in western Maine
There is something magical about sitting atop a ledge looking out over a lake, river, canyon or even just a swath of undeveloped landscape.
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Matthew Dickerson: Reflections for a new year
“People learn best when information enters through their peripheral vision, out of the corner of their eye … through stories.”
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Matthew Dickerson: Looking back with hope on the past year
I will admit that it’s a bleak Monday morning. Between the rain and the low clouds, I can barely see the hills a half mile from my house.…
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Matthew Dickerson: Waiting in the woods, and elsewhere
For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing the sitting-in-the-woods-waiting-for-large-game-to-pass sort of waiting.
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Matthew Dickerson: Thankfulness about being in the outdoors
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in the woods lately in my annual attempt to harvest local free-range, antibiotic-free venison.
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Matthew Dickerson: River surveys suggests damage to fisheries done by floods
“It was comparable to Tropical Storm Irene. We lost a lot (though not all) of the young-of-year age class.” Austin Galinat, a fisheries scientist with Vermont Fish and Wildlife,…
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Matthew Dickerson: Black bears and peregrine falcons mark the return of ubiquitous generalists
The number of bears I have seen this year — and seen evidence of around my house — gives testimony to our vibrant and growing black bear population.
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Matthew Dickerson: Playful animals and an ancient tradition
Sometime — likely between 3,000 and 2,500 years ago — a Hebrew poet wrote a beautiful nature poem that has, thankfully, managed to survive the centuries, and has…
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Matthew Dickerson: Finding fresh air while cabin camping on Eklutna Lake
The rain was falling again. Alaska’s 2023 summer was beginning to feel a lot like Vermont’s.
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Matthew Dickerson: Dancing with the bears
I never have — and with complete confidence can say I never will — be seen “Dancing with the Stars.” As for dancing with the bears, however, that’s…