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June 11, 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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White Pine EDITOR'S BLOG
White Pine Needle Damage
Dave Mance III


Do you remember how wet it was last summer, and how we were all wondering about the affect of the rain on the forest? In at least one case, our questions have been answered. Many readers have contacted us in the last few weeks to ask about white pine needle damage...
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Puddles THE OUTSIDE STORY
Puddles Ooze With Mud and Life

Bill Amos

City dwellers and puddles don't mix; we country folk are more tolerant. In wet weather we drive through one muddy morass after the next, uttering unprintable words, yet few of us would exchange dirt-spattered windows, packed wheel wells and a caked undercarriage for a commute on smooth asphalt in Flatland...
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Mystery Design WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Weekly Guessing Game!


Reader Susan Elliot took this picture at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center this past weekend while attending the 115th Annual Meeting of the Vermont Botanical and Bird Club. What is it?


Every other 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, June 23, 2010.
mystery insect Last Week's Contest Answer

Congratulations to our winner, Robert Ploss of Trumansburg, NY! We had 11 correct answers. Robert receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.

Our friend Bryan Pfeiffer shared this wonderful picture with us. What kind of bug is it? (Hint: you really have seen it before, especially at this time of year.)

NW Answer: A firefly. Did you know that each species of firefly has its own flash pattern? That the questing males flashing in the meadow are being responded to by females flashing in the tall grass? That certain predator fireflies are also hiding in the tall grass, mimicking female flash patterns and luring amorously-intentioned males in so they can eat them?

The story gets much more interesting, and much more gruesome, but I'm afraid you'll have to read The Outside Story to learn more. Keep guessing, you'll win one of these times.
 
Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive.
NW Woodpecker logoNORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS

Report Cautions Forest Cover on the Decline
A recently released Harvard Forest report, Wildlands and Woodlands, A Vision for the New England Landscape, calls for preserving almost three-quarters of New England's remaining open space-30 million acres-as working forests and farms, watersheds and wilderness. Of that total, 27 million acres would be committed to managed forests and farms while 3 million acres would be designated wilderness.  The report also cautions that for the first time in 150 years, forest cover is declining in every New England state.

A conference on the report, sponsored by the New England Forestry Foundation was recently held in Concord, NH with nearly 300 participants.

The report may be downloaded at: www.wildlandsandwoodlands.org.

National Tree Farmer Convention
The National Tree Farmer Convention is being held in Burlington, Vermont this year with a registration deadline of Friday, June 25. For more information visit: www.treefarmsystem.org.
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