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Newsletter
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November 20, 2009
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 EDITOR'S BLOG
In Sight of the Property Line*
Blake Thomsen, a licensed land surveyor from Chelsea, Vermont,
contacted the magazine with a request that we run a small blurb
explaining to landowners why they might see a surveyor wandering around
their back 40, possibly cutting brush. It seems Mr. Thomsen had been
cutting sight lines recently, when a neighboring landowner...Full Article Text*While our Managing Editor is on vacation, he shares this blog from last April.
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 THE OUTSIDE STORY
Bears Fattening Up for Winter's Slumber
Conventional wisdom says that if you put up a bird feeder on Nov. 1 and
take it down on April 1, you won't have a problem with marauding bears,
because they hibernate between those dates. After a bear's visit in
mid-November two years ago, I assumed put-up date should be rescheduled
to late November. A month later...Full Article Text
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 WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Weekly Guessing Game!
No hints on this one. What in the woods 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, November 25th.
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 Last Week's Contest Answer
Congratulations to our winner, David Birdsall of Middletown Springs, VT. We had 17 correct answers...sort of. David receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.
A few years back, a group of amateur history buffs spent the
better part of two days dragging an enormous hunk of metal off a densely wooded
mountain in southern Vermont. The
area is referred to on topo maps as the "McIntyre Job" - the site of a big
lumber operation in the early part of the twentieth century. The top picture
shows the machine's carriage, the bottom picture shows the blade (see full
image on contest page). What was this? And what was it used for?
NW Answer:
A barrel-stave saw. Maybe.
You can detect a hint of sheepishness in this answer.
Honestly, we're not totally sure what it is. The historians who extracted the
saw think, with a pinch of certainty, that it was related to the coopering
process. Maybe it cut little 8 inch staves to use as nail kegs or cheese
wheels, or maybe it was used to cut barrel bottoms. The equipment will soon be
on display at the Vermont State Fairground in Rutland,
so stop in and take a closer look.
We received many good guesses, including variations of the
barrel-bottom line of thought. Someone guessed that it was a hole saw that made
wooden reels, another solid wooden wheels. Several people guessed debarker,
including one hiker who'd actually seen the piece at its original site, but the
teeth look too aggressive to us for that purpose. One person guessed cookie
cutter, and while lumberjacks have notoriously hearty appetites, we're 99.9
percent sure that this is wrong.
Because of the ambiguity, we gave everyone who entered the
contest equal chance at the book. You can expect a full story if we ever get a
definitive answer.
Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive.
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 NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWSMessage from the Executive Director
Dear Friend,
During the next week, our annual
appeal letter will be mailed to our subscribers and friends. When it arrives, please
take a moment to consider supporting The Center for Northern Woodlands
Education.
Our efforts support those of many people and organizations
who are working hard to keep our forest a forest:
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we help educators by providing our materials
free of charge to hundreds of classrooms and thousands of students;
- we strengthen the forestry community by informing
people of the importance of a strong wood-based economy;
- we further the work of environmental activists by
helping to build a culture of forest stewardship;
- we promote the work of scientists by publishing
the results of their research;
- we increase the effectiveness of government
agencies by educating new landowners about good forest management;
- we back the efforts of land trusts and other
conservation organizations by trumpeting the importance of protecting our working
landscape.
We're grateful to all of you who believe in our work. Please
help us to help even more people become true stewards of the forests we all
love.
Sincerely,
Stephen Long
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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
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