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Newsletter
| March 21, 2014
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 EDITOR'S BLOG
We've boiled twice since my last blog post, and both times were in support of pretty minor runs. Our season total is 67 gallons of syrup, which puts us at about 8 percent of a crop. Last year by this date we'd made 352 gallons...
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 THE OUTSIDE STORY
Accipiters: The Motorcycle Hawks
Steven D. Faccio
I was enjoying a morning cup of coffee in the sunroom when I saw the hawk. It was perched across the road, maybe 30 yards away, its chest puffed up against the cold. It appeared to be eyeing the activity at our birdfeeder...
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Skunk Cabbage: Blooming Heat
Michael Caduto
Every year, in mid-March, my family leaves Vermont and heads to Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley to get a jump on experiencing spring. Red-winged blackbirds are calling, chipmunks are foraging and flocks of robins abound...
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Sent along by Mark Heitzman, who found them on his property in Barre, Vermont.
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, April 2, 2014.
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 Previous Contest Answer
Congratulations to our winner Rob Anderegg of Hartland, VT! Rob receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.
A reader in southern Vermont submitted this collection of seven different cones (not all were found in the forest). Can you ID them all from left to right?
NW Answer:
The cones, in order from left to right, are:
Norway spruce
white pine
Douglas fir
red pine
white spruce
hemlock
white cedar
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 NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS
Our cup runneth over. Actually, our inbox spilleth over. Either way, we have a lot of interesting news stories that cross our desks. Here were some of our favorites:
Nature
Amazon (the place, not the mail order company) inhales more carbon than it emits and shrimp, though small, are pretty powerful. The U.S. Forest Service's "Poo-Poo Project" aims to protect cavity birds from vault toilets and pine seems to have magical powers.
Industry
The long, cold winter has created a shortage of wood pellets in places, and one retailer is protecting his pellets with a gun (not a pellet gun). Despite spring's delay, the optimistic folks at the New Hampshire Timberland Owner's Association have scheduled a series of Spring Professional Logger Program classes. A new study looks at the economics of community forests and there's disagreement over how to manage state forests in Maine. Finally, a biomass power plant is set to be auctioned in Hawaii. This has no real relevance to our region, but at this point in the winter, anything to do with Hawaii sounds appealing.
Stories You've Shared
Erik Hoffner brought to our attention this article by Robert Sullivan - which includes a Northern Woodlands mention - on the fate of hemlocks. It's adapted from a book on hemlocks due out next month from Yale Press.
And a kind message came in from Donald Enman of Berlin, New Hampshire:
"Just a note to tell you how much I enjoyed the Winter 2013 edition, especially the six-page article by my grandson, Ross Caron ("A Cabin in the Woods"). It was kind of Ross to mention me a few times. The piece was well written and the photos were excellent. I would grade it as an 'A.'"
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