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April 5, 2013
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What In The Woods?
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happy sugar makers EDITOR'S BLOG
Final Dispatch
Dave Mance III   

 

We made our crop for the season at the end of last week; by Monday evening we'd broken our all-time production record. By Tuesday night we were out of drum space. A sugarmaker up the road is paying .50/gal for delivered sap, so we're going to keep collecting sap as long as we can and sell it to him as long as he'll take it...

   

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Pasture Pines        

Joe Rankin               

 

The eastern white pine is the tallest tree in this part of North America, with the biggest specimens getting up near 200 feet. They can live for 250 years or more. A truly big one is jaw-droppingly impressive. Unfortunately, many never reach their full potential...

 

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Love (Song) is in the Air           

Anne Margolis                

 

King Solomon, legend has it, possessed a magical ring that allowed him to communicate with animals. But it doesn't take the ring of Solomon to understand birdsong in springtime. It's downright hard, even, to misunderstand the ballads of birds in the grip of spring lust, as each male competes to claim territory and a mate, fiercely announcing his intentions to the world...

 

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these days WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Biweekly Guessing Game!

We found this odd-looking plant growing on a moss-covered boulder in a Vermont sugarbush. 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. 

 


This week's contest deadline is 8:00 AM, Wednesday, April 17, 2013.
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Congratulations to our winner Steve Kubber of Penfield, New York! Steve receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.

This tree is bedecked with some ugly flowers - and in winter no less. What's going on here?


NW Answer: These deformities were caused by ash flower fall mites. The mite feeds on the male flowers of ash trees; the infested clusters become deformed and remain on the tree into winter.

  

 Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive.

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Maine Teachers' Tours Announced
 
The Maine TREE Foundation and Maine Project Learning Tree recently announced their 2013 Forests of Maine Teachers' Tours, happening this July.Tours combine math, science, language arts and social studies with current information about forest practices. Each tour begins with a Project Learning Tree workshop that includes training in curriculum materials with links to all current standards including the Common Core standards and application to the new Science standards.See modern harvesting and manufacturing technology in the woods and in the mills. Discuss it with the foresters, loggers and operators. Click here to learn more.

Summer Internship Opportunity

The Downeast Lakes Land Trust in Grand Lakes Stream, Maine, is seeking an intern this summer. Among other work, intern projects will include assisting with planning and implementing aquatic habitat restoration projects to enhance habitat for brook trout and other aquatic wildlife, performing routine maintenance of hiking trails and campsites on the Farm Cove Community Forest, and planning future trails and campsites on the West Grand Lake Community Forest project. Start and end dates are negotiable. The intern will receive a weekly stipend of $300. Lodging is not provided, but DLLT will assist with arranging local accommodations if needed. For more information, click here.

NH Mud Season Breakfast

The annual Mud Season Breakfast presented by Coos County Foresters is April 26at the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield, New Hampshire. The breakfast is a 23-year-old tradition that began as a means for local natural resource professionals to network and share insights from the past year. It has grown to include up to 150 people from across NH and surrounding states with presentations both indoors and in the woods. Attendees include landowners, loggers, biologists, foresters, government officials, and many more. Register before April 19 to attend. Click here for more information and to register.

Annual Conference on the Adirondacks

The 20th Anniversary of the Annual Conference on the Adirondacks is May 15-16 at the High Peaks Resort in Lake Placid, New York. This year's theme is, "20/20: Looking Back 20 Years, Today, and 20 Years in the Future." It will be a multidisciplinary look at key issues including climate, working landscapes, ecology, and sustainability. For more information and a preliminary conference program, click here.

Annual Spring NESAF Meeting

The New England Society of American Foresters presents its annual spring meeting, this year with the theme, "What's in Your Woods?" The three-day meeting takes place May 15-17 at Sunday River Resort in Bethel, Maine. Presentations are diverse in content, covering such topics as forests as community assets and trends in geospatial data. Download a full program or register here.

Webinar: Native American Plant Knowledge, Stewardship, Conservation in Northern Forest

The Northeastern States Research Cooperative presents "T'an key utomonen: Native American Plant Knowledge, Stewardship, and Conservation in the Northern Forest," a webinar geared toward connecting researchers and practitioners to important work being done in the Northern Forest. The presentation, by Dr. Karim-AlyKassamand Michelle Baumflek of Cornell University and Dr. Marla R. Emery of USFS Northern Research Station., is April 18 from 2-3:30p.m. The research team will present management guidelines for four key culturally important plant species that were developed for tribal and private land managers. Researchers also generated a replicable methodology for creating guidelines and exploring biocultural diversity that can be transferred and adapted to the needs of other tribes, landowners, and cultural groups. For information on the research project, click here. To sign up for the webinar, email Ryan Morra
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