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August 14, 2009
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 EDITOR'S BLOG
New Spout Has Sugarmakers Talking
Each year the Vermont Maple Sugarmakers' Association holds its annual Maplerama
event - an excuse for sugarmakers from around the state to get
together, talk shop, and get excited about the upcoming season. The
buzz at this year's banquet was...Full Article Text
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 THE OUTSIDE STORY
Flavor Your Mushroom-Hunting With Caution
It is summer, but we see glimmers of early autumn now and then - a
change in the light, goldenrods and asters blooming, mushrooms of
various species emerging and proliferating in fields and forests....Full Article Text
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 WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Weekly Guessing Game!
"This peculiar, purple object was seen hanging near a
campground in the Adirondacks. What is it?"
Each week we run a photo of something unusual found in the woods. Guess
what it is and you'll be eligible to win a copy of The Outside Story, a
paperback collection of our Outside Story newspaper columns. A prize winner
will be drawn at random from all the correct entries. The correct answer, and
the winner's name, will appear in next week's column.View the full image and enter this week's contest This week's contest deadline is 5:00pm, Wednesday, August 19th.
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 Last Week's Contest Answer
Congratulations to last week's winner, Susan Sawyer of South Woodbury, VT. We had only 3 correct answers! Susan receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.
"This mushroom seems to ooze out of a maple tree in Corinth, Vermont. What is it?"
Answer: Dryad's Saddle.
The
mushroom pictured here is Polyporus squamosus, commonly known as the Dryad's Saddle
(In Greek mythology, a dryad is a tree-dwelling nymph). For those who prefer
ornithological references, the mushroom is sometimes called pheasant's back
mushroom, for obvious reasons. It's a mushroom found throughout the Northeast.
According to mycologist David Fischer, P. squamosus is a
deadly parasite on hardwoods such as sugar maple. In the case of the American
elm, however, it is a saprobe, which means it's a decomposer that shows up
after the tree is already dead or dying. Thanks to Dutch elm disease, the
mushroom is ubiquitous on elm logs and stumps.
There is some debate over whether the mushroom tastes good,
but mycologists agree that young, tender specimens are edible. In the book
Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America, there's a recipe for "pheasant's back
jambalaya."
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 NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS
Many of us have wondered if Summer was ever going to arrive.
You needn't wonder about Autumn, at least about the Autumn
issue of Northern Woodlands. It's at the printer, will head to the mail house
next week, and should arrive at your door by September 1st.
Here's a preview of what you can expect. Bernd Heinrich
observes the felling techniques of beavers, Mike Greason shows how valuable
good-growing trees can get if you just let them grow, and Anne Margolis takes
us on a tour of a National Park with a silviculturally based forest management program. We have a
beautiful story by a writer new to us, Allaire Diamond, on how to go about
finding wild sources of dye in the forest, with beautiful photographs of
plants, dyes, and their woven results. Finally, we get ready for fall by taking
a closer look at antlers and the velvet that adorns them; Susan Morse, our
Tracking Tips expert, has a photo essay on the signs that accompany the rubbing
out of the velvet in deer and moose.
The Long View profiles a logger who can't quite retire even
though he's in his 70s, and there's a particularly lively Letters section this
time.
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The mission of the Center for Northern Woodlands
Education is to encourage a culture of forest stewardship in the
Northeast by producing and distributing media content to increase
understanding of and appreciation for the natural wonders, economic
productivity, and ecological integrity of the region's forests. Our
programs give people the information
they need to help build a sustainable future for our region. Through
Northern Woodlands magazine, the Northern Woodlands Goes to School
program, and special
publications, we make a difference in how people care for their land.
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