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Newsletter
| October 19, 2012
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 EDITOR'S BLOG
By Any Other Name
Dave Mance III
There were a series of public meetings this week in Vermont concerning a new industry-wide maple syrup classification system that will affect the whole Northeast. As it stands, each state has a slightly different syrup grading system, all of which differ from the Canadian system...
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 THE OUTSIDE STORY
Up A Ladder For Kestrels
Madeline Bodin
One autumn day, 15 years ago, I found myself perched on a ladder that was leaning against a highway sign on Interstate 89 somewhere in Vermont. There was a wooden box clamped to one of the sign poles at least 15 feet off the ground, although fear may have exaggerated that memory...
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 WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Biweekly Guessing Game!
Guess which animal sports these little feet.
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 7:00 AM, Wednesday, November 7, 2012. |
 Previous Contest Answer
No winner this week!
It's that time of year. Can you identify the trees and plants from whence these colorful leaves came?
NW Answer: From left to right: Virginia creeper, staghorn sumac, sugar maple, Japanese knotweed.
Although we had lots of responses, no one identified all four leaves correctly. Leaf number 4 was the stumper, with some identifying it as "hobblebush," some as "basswood," and others as "quaking aspen." Perhaps we were a little sneaky picking a leaf from a Japanese knotweed plant.
Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive. |
 NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS
Logger Training Workshop
New York Logger Training is offering a Forest Stand Rehabilitation workshop at the Adirondack Ecological Center in Newcomb on October 30. Dr. Ralph D. Nyland, Distinguished Service Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, will teach the class, presenting ideas for rehabilitation of cut-over stands, creative examples of treatments, and methods of dealing with beech bark disease. The workshop includes a field trip through Huntington Forest. This class is approved for New York Logger Training Continuing Education Credit. The class will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and costs $25. Participants are asked to bring their lunch and hardhat. To register, call the Empire State Forest Products Association at (518) 463-1297.
Timber Harvest Tour in New Hampshire
Join the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests field forester Wendy Weisiger, Meadowsend Timberlands Forester Jeremy Turner, and Merrimack County Forester Tim Fleury for a guided tour of a timber sale at Victor's Woods forest reservation in Danbury, New Hampshire. Victor's Woods grows nearly every species of Northeastern conifer: pine, spruce, hemlock, fir and tamarack. Patch cuts and summer soil scarification techniques will help to regenerate softwoods. See the mechanized cut-to-length harvesting equipment during an active timber harvest. Learn about site-specific considerations, layout of roads and landings, wood products generated, and wood markets. The tour takes place Saturday, November 3, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call (603) 224-9945 or click here. |
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Postal Address:
Northern Woodlands
1776 Center Road
P.O. Box 471
Corinth, VT 05039
Toll-Free: (800) 290-5232
Phone: (802) 439-6292
Fax: (802) 439-6296
Email: mail@northernwoodlands.org
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The mission of the Center for Northern Woodlands Education is to advance a culture of forest stewardship in the Northeast and 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.
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