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Educator's E-newsletter
| April 6, 2012
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 A Look at the Season's Main Events Virginia Barlow Second Week of April Hummingbirds have reached mid-New Jersey. They should arrive here by early May.
The genus name for trailing arbutus, Epigaea, is from the Greek meaning "upon the ground," which is where you will find this small, sweet-scented wildflower.
Female hazelnut flowers have extended their tiny purple tongues, and the male catkins are shedding pollen.
Third Week of April
Aspen leaves begin to unfurl. Bears may climb the trees to eat these early greens.
There is more to trout lily, our earliest flowering lily, than meets the eye. The plants arise from corms 10 inches below ground.
On rainy nights when the temperature is above 41°F, spring peepers migrate to their breeding grounds. The males may stay for a month, but most females arrive, mate, lay eggs, and leave within a couple of days.
These listing are based on observations and reports in our home territory at about 1,000 feet in elevation in central Vermont and are approximate. Events may occur earlier or later, depending on your latitude, elevation - and the weather. |
Shed Hunting
Kubie Brown
Whether we see them slinking silently through the shadows of a quiet forest, darting across the road, or standing alone in a yellowed field, the sight of a whitetail buck touches some ancient and primal part of our souls. In fall, a buck's antlers, rising and curling gracefully above his head, are impossible to miss...
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 How Wetlands Work
Sandra Murphy
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WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
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 Our Biweekly Guessing Game!
The Northeast's recent blast of summer-like weather set in motion some early spring buds and blossoms. To what plant do these speckled leaves belong?
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.
This week's contest deadline is 8:00 AM, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. |
 Congratulations to our winner Bennett Leon of Orono, ME! Bennett receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.
These three trucks, featured in Northern Woodlands' new book, More Than a Woodlot, are all filled up and ready to go. Top to bottom, which is the load of pulp? Which is the load of sawlogs? Which is the load of firewood?
NW Answer: Top to bottom: sawlogs, firewood, pulp.
In the top photo, the truck contains a load of hardwood sawlogs totaling 6,600 board feet. In the middle photo, the same truck is loaded with about 10 cords of firewood. Firewood logs are generally tree length, and because of their rougher form, don't pack as tightly as the nearly cylindrical logs. The 8-foot logs in the bottom photo look more like a load of logs than firewood, but their poor form indicates that they're headed to the pulp mill.
Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive.
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Cornell Lab Hosts LIVE Great Blue Heron Nest Cam
Invite your students to witness the nesting activities of the magnificent Great Blue Heron with this live-streaming nest camera from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Guess when the eggs will hatch, watch the chicks' little beaks first appear over the nest rim, and follow them as they grow to four-foot tall adolescents. This camera takes you right inside the nest.
Green Schoolyard "World Tour" in Webinar Format - Free Online for a Limited Time
Green Teacher's slideshow "Schoolyards Re-Imagined" focuses on schoolyard ecology, school gardens, creative play environments (and the topic of risk in play) and other innovative things schools around the world are doing with their grounds. This "tour of the world" includes inspiring photos of school grounds in the USA, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Japan, Norway, and Sweden over the last decade. This webinar will only be available to the public until April 28th so check it out today.
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