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February 26, 2010
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Editor's Blog
The Outside Story
What In The Woods?
Last Week's Contest Answer
Northern Woodlands News
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How Do You Know When to Tap Your Trees?

A friend of the magazine contacted me recently with a deceptively simple question: how do I know when to start tapping my maple trees? The literal answer, "whenever you can take time off from work", is not very technically illuminating....
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Goshawk THE OUTSIDE STORY
From Wooded Perch, a Goshawk Swoops In

Keeping chickens at the edge of a forest is always a gamble. Foxes, raccoons, skunks, weasels, fishers, and coyotes can sally forth at any time from the shadows of the woods in search of a chicken supper...
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Cones WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Weekly Guessing Game!


Each of these cones was collected in the woods around our office in Cornith, Vermont. Name all five species.


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 8:00 AM, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
Feb 09 contest Last Week's Contest Answer

Congratulations to our winner, Barbara Rzasa of Seymour, Connecticut! We had 26 correct answers. Barbara receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.

By now you've all had a chance to read Bernd Heinrich's wonderful story in our winter issue on identifying bird's nests. You have read the story, right?

Put your newfound skills to work here and tell us what bird made this nest.

NW Answer:  Red-eyed vireo

According to naturalist Bernd Heinrich, red-eyed vireos build their nests at any height but always in a deciduous tree. Their nests can be found in both forest and edge habitat. The nest is always a hanging cup suspended along its edges from a thin, horizontal, forked branch. It is a neat, tidy, compact structure that will have bits of birch bark, and usually also wasp paper, decorating the outside. The inside cup diameter of a vireo nest is 2 inches.
Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive.
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Conference, Cap, and More...

NESAF Conference: Stop by our booth at the New England Society of American Foresters' regional meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire. Editor Dave Mance and Executive Director Walter Medwid will be there on March 9 and 10. For more information on the conference, go to: www.nesaf.org.
 
The Outside Story: Thanks to generous support from the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, we will continue to run The Outside Story columns in Upper Valley newspapers throughout 2010. The columns feature numerous authors covering a variety of ecological and natural history subjects.
 
E-newsletter schedule: You may have noticed that we're now publishing our E-newsletter every other week. In an effort to balance workloads with other publishing demands, we are giving this new schedule a test run for the next few months. Let us know what you think! Comments may be directed to: mail@northernwoodlands.org.
 
Mud Season Cap Sale: Our Stonewashed Cap is a great way to support your favorite magazine and look sharp at the same time!  "Northern Woodlands magazine" is classily embroidered on this one-size-fits-all cap (with an adjustable buckle back).  Available in lake blue, forest green, or serviceberry maroon. Get ready for spring! Caps are $3.00 off until March 20th: $11.95 sale price (versus the regular price of $14.95.) Available by phone (800 290-5232) or through our website store.


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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.