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July 25, 2014
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man with chainsaw EDITOR'S BLOG
Safety First in the Forest
Dave Mance III         

 

If you find the sight of blissful ignorance in the face of near-death entertaining - and I think in this case most of you will - check out this video of a hapless (though kind of loveable) youth committing egregious safety violations with his chainsaw...

 

wing THE OUTSIDE STORY 

Jewels On The Wing                  

Todd McLeish                                                 

 

The fluttering flash of black and iridescent green was startling, and it took me a moment to figure out what I was seeing. In the blink of an eye, the movement stopped and the insect seemed to disappear. But by then I had it figured out...

 

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snakes

The Skinny on Snakes  

Susan Shea                                                  

 

If you have a wood pile, you may have come across a shed snake skin - a translucent, onion skin-like wrapper imprinted with the snake's scale pattern. Or perhaps you've seen one along a foundation or stone wall. Why do snakes shed their skin?...

 

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chipstery

These wood chip piles were observed near each other on a walk in the woods early last winter. Each pile was found at the base of a tree. What made each chip pile?

   

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, August 6, 2014.
teaser Previous Contest Answer

Congratulations to our winner Joanne Levy! Joanne receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.

 

 

 

Here's a tip: Found earlier this summer in Vermont.                       


NW Answer:

The strobilus of horsetail. These cone-shaped tips contain spores that allow the plant to reproduce.  

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

NW Woodpecker logo 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

UNH is using DNA to save the cottontail while the British are using thermal imaging to map tree diseases. The plight of pinion pines is due to hotter temperatures, making these types of climate change games look even more realistic. Bamboo makes the grade at MIT while freezing frogs prove they're plenty tough enough for Alaskan winters. And here's an amusing eye-opener: What a food label would read like if it were required on your favorite natural snack.

INDUSTRY

A 6-year-old Vermont boy gets his wish to be a logger. The lost art of lumberjacking is alive and well at Paul Smith's, and more women seem to be getting into the game, too. Nanocellulose is small, but it's going to be big. Speaking of big, U.S. softwood exports have doubled over the past five years. The USDA promotes local wood-to-energy projects and a $30 million investment has been made in a Maine biomass plant. Meanwhile, mining tests have been halted in the Adirondacks.

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The New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions (NHACC) is holding a collaboration and cookout in partnership with UNH Cooperative Extension, Co�s County Conservation District. The event will be July 29 and all the details can be found here
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