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Dave Mance III
I went to a tick talk last night in southwestern Vermont that was sponsored by Bennington College and the Bennington County Sustainable Forestry Consortium. Kathleen LoGiudice, a researcher affiliated with Union College, gave the talk, which was focused on tick ecology and Lyme disease...
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Joe Rankin
I've had my eye on this maple in my woods for some time. Not because it's a beautiful timber tree. It's only about eight inches in diameter, after all. But, it has an interesting burl about 14 feet up the trunk....
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Barbara Mackay
Three things happened this week: bluebirds and tree swallows returned, my road was graded, and the red maple buds popped. It's time to search for vernal pools. Vernal pools are small areas of wetland that form in the spring and dry up during the summer...
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Thanks to Kyle Jones for sending in this photo. What is he holding?
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, May 27, 2015.
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Congratulations to our winner Mike Smith! Mike receives a Season's Main Events Day Calendar.
An animal was eating the bark near the crown of this sumac tree. What kind of animal was it?
NW Answer:
Cottontail rabbit. Had the picture been taken a month before it was, you would have seen a massive snowpile at the base of the sumac, deposited by a plow truck. The rabbit climbed the snowpile to access the tree's crown.
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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 than 40 percent of honeybee hives were lost last year. Another downer: Some stark images of the human footprint on earth. Vermont bans deer urine (has anyone told the deer?), and revives the American Elm. More carbon is making carbon dating more difficult, while a UN Forum on Forests looks at reversing deforestation worldwide. Human-shaped mushrooms have been discovered in England and Italy's famous olive trees are in danger. Closer to home, a debate over hatchery fish in Maine, shrinking forest ecosystems in Massachusetts, and "rapid response" permits for combating invasives in the Adirondacks.
INDUSTRY
A New Hampshire sawmill is honored, while a school in the state gets a new wood pellet heating system. Recyclable insulation, Maine's next forest product? New England's first community wood chip heating system a success in Montpelier, Vermont, and the biomass industry may be growing in northern New York. In fact, the wood pellet industry seems to be growing everywhere.
STORIES YOU'VE SHARED
The Vermont Urban & Community Forestry Program will be conducting an emerald ash borer informational Webinar on May 21; get details and register here.
Vermont Coverts is conducting a non-timber forest products workshop on Saturday, June 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Cabot, Vermont. Non-timber forest products are botanical and mycological products and associated services of the forest other than timber and pulpwood. For more information, click here.
A Forest & Wood Products Industry Summit is being held in Vermont in June.
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