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 EDITOR'S BLOG
The Beginning of Wisdom
Elise Tillinghast
I'm holding my daughter up to a jar. It's a quart jar, initially used for syrup, more recently serving as my improvised coffee-to-go container, and now in its third career as the parsley filled home of three black swallowtail caterpillars...
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 THE OUTSIDE STORY
Coppice Rising
Joe Rankin
Twenty years ago when I bought my farm I made a snap decision to clear some woods near the house, all the way back to the stone wall. Out came the chainsaw and trees started crashing down...
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THE OUTSIDE STORY ARCHIVE FEATURE
In Defense of Slugs
Bill Amos
My thoughts turn to gardens, the earthy fragrance of moist woodland - and to slugs tucked under a rock. Few things disturb gardeners so much as slugs and the silvery ribbons of slime they leave behind as evidence of their peripatetic travels...
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 WHAT IN THE WOODS IS THAT?
Our Biweekly Guessing Game!
Reader Judy Brook took this picture while kayaking the LaPlatte River in Shelburne, VT. 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, July 10, 2013. |
 Previous Contest Answer
Congratulations to our winner Stephen Kubber of Penfield, NY! Stephen is a second time winner, so he receives a copy of our book, More Than a Woodlot.
This snipe fly was found in Thetford, Vermont, dead and smooshed against a sugar maple leaf. What killed the fly?
NW Answer: A fungus, most likely furia ithacensis.
This fly was just one of an infected swarm, each tiny cadaver attached to its own sugar maple leaf by a fine webbing of fungal filaments. Although furia infection of snipe flies is not well understood, the process appears to begin with the piercing of the fly's body by conidia (spores).
Read more about this grisly process or see it in action here. Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive. |
 NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS
Fly Rod and Reel Raffle - LAST CHANCE!!!
On July 1, 2013, Northern Woodlands will raffle an Orvis HELIOS 2 fly rod and reel. A limited number of chances, $20 each, will be sold. It's a superb prize, and a good cause to support our educational non-profit. Your chances of winning are at least 1:500. Order now! |
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Postal Address:
Northern Woodlands
1776 Center Road
P.O. Box 471
Corinth, VT 05039
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Phone: (802) 439-6292
Fax: (802) 368-1053
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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