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Newsletter
| November 15, 2013
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 EDITOR'S BLOG
One of the hardest parts of writing, or any creative endeavor, is knowing when to crinkle up the paper and start over again. The novelist William Faulkner called this killing your darling. Country singer Kenny Rogers called it knowing when to fold 'em...
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 THE OUTSIDE STORY
The Shrew That Walks On Water
Steven D. Faccio
On a morning walk around the pond, the dog and I encountered a dead shrew - perhaps the unfortunate casualty of a neighborhood feline or a red fox (shrews are well-known for being distasteful to mammalian predators)...
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Buck Meets Doe
John Buck
One of the evolutionary adjustments whitetail deer have made is to reproduce early and often. A six-year-old whitetail doe can easily become a great-great-grandmother, and she can continue to produce fawns each year until she is ten years old...
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Reader Penny Harris took this picture in her woods in Cambridge, Vermont. What's the black growth?
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 our next e-newsletter.
This week's contest deadline is 8:00 AM, Wednesday, November 27, 2013.
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 Previous Contest Answer
Congratulations to our winner Justin Potter! Justin receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.
Forestry students might call this "Dendrology at 50 mph." Name the tree species, from left.
NW Answer:
1. Balsam fir
2. Red spruce
3. White pine
4. Hemlock Visit our What In The Woods Is That? contest archive. |
 NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS
Holiday Shopping with Northern Woodlands
We hate to mention it, but holiday shopping insanity nears. Jammed roads, jammed parking lots, stressed out shoppers, and most traumatic of all, the song "Santa Baby" played in a constant loop over department store intercoms.
There is a better way.
When you shop at Northern Woodlands' on-line store, you choose among a number of attractive, regionally made items and support forest education with your purchase. How about a gift subscription to the magazine? We also offer toy logging trucks, bird tile matching games, and a variety of useful books from our favorite authors. Are you on elf duty this year? Stuff stockings with our attractive new bird cards, each featuring a quote from our "Outside Story" ecology essay, and illustration by Adelaide Tyrol. We even offer tick nippers...now there's a nifty item you will never hear mentioned in a store holiday advertisement!
Click here for all these great items and more.
Climate Change Workshop
The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation is holding a climate change workshop on December 3 at Judd Hall, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph, Vermont.
The session will provide information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on Vermont and its forests; describe new resources and tools that can be used to integrate climate change into management; identify actions that enhance the ability of forests and other ecosystems to adapt to changing conditions; show real-world examples of natural resource adaptation efforts. Pre-registration is appreciated
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The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods
Andrew Barton from the Biology Department at the University of Maine at Farmington will give a talk about the ecology of the ever-changing Maine forest at Porter Town Hall in Porter, Maine. Andrew is co-author of the recent book: The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods, and a recent feature article on the subject that appeared in Northern Woodlands. The talk is both an introduction to the forests of Maine and a detailed but accessible narrative of the dynamism of these ecosystems. This is natural history with a long view, starting with an overview of the state's geological history, the reemergence of the forest after glacial retreat, and the surprising changes right up to European arrival.
The Porter Town Hall is located at 71 Main Street, just across from the Sacopee Valley Health Center. Talk starts at 7 p.m. For more information please contact the Trust at 207-221-0853.
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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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