Howland Forest canopy

The newest frame from every camera looked at each morning, sorted and shown as you choose; press one for its picture large, its days along the foot and a time lapse.

How the wall is ordered

Under Most colour now, the frames from the newest day and the day before come first, and among them the clearest and most coloured lead: each frame is read when the page is built, for how much of what the wall shows of it is in autumn reds, oranges and golds, how much fine detail fog, rain or a wet lens has left it, and how well it is lit. Older frames follow, newest first. The word under each frame sets the camera’s newest frame against its own earlier days this year, never against another camera’s: still green, turning, at its best, or past its best once its colour has clearly fallen, bare branches included. A river gauge’s frame is mostly water and bank, so it carries no word.

All cameras

A broad treetop scene with evergreen crowns and scattered red, orange and yellow broadleaf crowns.

Howland Forest canopyOctober 19, 2026 · 12:01 camera time

Maine

Howland, Maine

Turning · 6 days saved here this year, from October 3 to October 19, 2026

PhenoCam Network and Main Tower (Mature stand), Howland Forest, Howland, Maine

Each small map’s outline: Natural Earth

Acknowledgments

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Research at Howland Forest is supported by the Office of Science (BER), US Department of Energy, and the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station.