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Dave Mance III
So we got our first run the end of last week, and made our first syrup on March 14. That was also the day we finally finished tapping, thanks in large part to our friends Ginny and Court who traveled south to pitch in. We had a couple day warm spell that would have made for a great run most years...
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Carolyn Lorié
If you peek into a wood duck nesting box during the breeding cycle, you might find 10 to 11 eggs, which is the bird's normal clutch size. But you might also stumble upon a box overflowing with as many as 30 eggs. How, you might ask, can one duck lay and care for so many eggs? The answer is: she can't...
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Joe Rankin
A guy down the road has been working in his woods for the last couple of years. He's cleaning them up. And I mean cleaning. He cuts the underbrush. Takes out the dead trees, the downed logs, the dead branches...
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Glen Roberts noticed this white pine while working in the woods in New York. Why does it look like this?
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 one of our Season's Main Events Day Calendars. 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 3, 2015.
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Congratulations to our winner Bill Guenther of Newfane, VT! Bill receives a Season's Main Events Day Calendar.
What's going on up there?
NW Answer:
Hickory galls.
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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
More bad news of Antarctic ice melting comes at the same time massive icebergs are washing up on the Cape Cod coast. Also in Massachusetts, an arboretum on Martha's Vineyard is hosting an exhibit on threatened trees. There's a mystery in Idaho, where thousands of dead geese are falling from the sky, and avian flu seems to be spreading from turkeys to migratory ducks. In the California drought, farmers are selling water rather than crops. Trees in the Amazon are absorbing less CO2, and across the Midwest ash trees are being taken down by the millions. Also in the news: contaminated bald eagles, bird-eating deer, and a ban on placing fairy doors on trees (the photos will explain if you're not British). If you're ready for spring, so is this eagle.
INDUSTRY
A Vermonter is honored as the 2015 national Tree Farm inspector of the year and debate ensues in Maine over how to manage public lands. A wood pellet shortage is leading one Canadian company to double production, while firewood prices are burning up. Wood flooring makes the news (not in a good way), thanks to an investigation of Lumber Liquidators. From the news: profiles of a Vermont cedar chair company, a New Hampshire logging company, a Maine high school forest operations program, and a New York master forest owner initiative. And strange but true: Vermont ranks first in woodstove emissions and heavily forested Maine is importing wood.
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