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July 9, 2010
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What In The Woods?
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Northeast Kingdom Mountain Trail Guide EDITOR'S BLOG
Northeast Kingdom Trail Guide
Walter Medwid


Before joining the team at Northern Woodlands, I served as Executive Director at NorthWoods Stewardship Center, a non-profit conservation organization in northern Vermont. A common refrain heard around the NorthWood's office was that Vermont is like the country used to be...
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Bumblebees THE OUTSIDE STORY
Traveling Bumblebees Bring Trouble Home

Kent McFarland


There has been a lot of bad buzz about bee populations lately, mostly about the decline of European honeybees that are used across North America to help pollinate everything from California almonds to Maine blueberries...
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strange sight WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Weekly Guessing Game!


Our proofreader discovered this strange object in a spruce tree near her home. What in the woods 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, July 28, 2010.
Who lives here? Last Week's Contest Answer


Congratulations to our winner, Ernest Clifford of Crown Point, New York! We only had 1 correct answer! Ernest receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.

Naturalist Mary Holland shared this wonderful picture with us...yup, it's an animal den site. But what kind of animal?

NW Answer: This is the inside of a beaver lodge.

When colonizing a new site, beaver(s) create bank holes that serve as rudimentary burrows. By piling sticks around the entrance of the hole, they'll turn the burrow into a bank lodge - think of it as a starter home. Once established at a given site, they'll often build a freestanding lodge that's surrounded by water and thus safe from most predators, although sometimes ambitious nature photographers find a way in.

Thanks to naturalist/author Mary Holland for sharing this great shot. You can check out more of Mary's nature photos on her blog: http://naturallycuriouswithmaryholland.wordpress.com/

 
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Asian Longhorned Beetle Found in Boston

Earlier this July, a small infestation of Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) was found in Jamaica Plain (Boston) near the Arnold Arboretum. A press release from the Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project indicates that six infested maple trees have been found so far, in close proximity to each other, and they have all been removed. Surveys will continue to determine the extent of the infestation. Several links are provided here for additional information:

For the state of Massachusetts link on ALB:
http://massnrc.org/pests/alb

For tips on identifying ALB and other invasive insects:
http://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolt/the_northeasts_most_wanted/

For Northern Woodlands winter 2008 story about Worchester's ALB battles:
http://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolts/notes_from_the_quarantine_zone/

For Northern Woodlands Species in the Spotlight article on whitespotted sawyer, an ALB look-alike:
http://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/whitespotted_sawyer/

For information on the Nature Conservancy's Lurking in the Trees video:
http://www.lurkinginthetrees.org.


Can't Identify that Woody Plant on your Woodlot?

Try out PINE (Plant Identifier New England), an online plant identification tool created by the New England Wild Flower Society in association with
the Montshire Museum:
http://flora.newenglandwild.org:8080/.
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