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Dave Mance III
The birch bark peelers arrived in a pickup pulling a covered trailer. There was a 4-wheeler in it, a smaller trailer, and sheets of cardboard and stickers for the bark. They unloaded the 4-wheeler and secured a chainsaw to the front rack, some climbing gear to the back rack...
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This June was an exceptionally wet month in the Northeast, and many of your photos had a water theme. Love was in the air for promethea moths, and sawdust was in the air for a kid taking his first Game of Logging class. Other common subjects included birds, flowers, and babies: from Cooper's hawk chicks to fox kits, the month was full of new life. View Reader Photo GalleryWe're now on the hunt for July 2015 photos. We encourage you to share images about anything that relates to the Northeast's forests, and that you take this month. Here are examples - but by no means an exclusive list - of photo topics that fit this category: nature, weather, education activities (any age), forest management/logging, recreation, wood manufacture, art, workshops, events. As long as it relates in some way to the Northeast's forests, we'll consider it.
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Declan McCabe
Biologists sometimes field questions about a "huge scary bug" that appeared in someone's home or worse yet on their person. Most turn out to be benign organisms that ended up in the wrong place. For me, the most common questions come in July, when male dobsonflies emerge from the Winooski River...
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Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
When you think of foxes (if you ever do), you likely picture the ginger-coated red fox, like Mr. Tod from Beatrix Potter's fantastical children's tales, only without the dapper suitcoat and tweed knickers. It is the not-as-common gray fox, however, that has been wandering the woods and fields near my home - and climbing the trees...
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When we see wood with funky colors and grain patterns we tend to assume it came from the tropics. But these three boards were milled from species growing in Vermont. Left to right, tell us the wood species.
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, July 22, 2015.
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Congratulations to our winner Nan Williams! Nan receives a Season's Main Events Day Calendar.
What is this (or rather, what will it be)?
NW Answer:
Showy lady slipper blossom, not yet opened. (Here's a follow-up shot that's a little more showy.)
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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
Strange but true: A plant that thrives on bat poo, an arctic mummy found buried in birch bark, a sky-diving shark, and electronics made of wood. Regional round-up: Going on a "Wild Walk" up in the forest canopy of the Adirondacks, New Jersey is restoring the northern bobwhite quail, students are helping to map ash trees in southern Vermont, foraging in New Hampshire, a massive frozen pile of trash is a reminder of a brutal Boston winter, and deer living in a home in West Virginia. Finally, a fish story: A 9-year-old catches a 600-pound sturgeon.
INDUSTRY
The latest in New England's ongoing fight against invasive tree pests. Northern New Hampshire's Ride the Wilds trail system could get a multi-million dollar donation from Northern Pass (if the project goes forward), while elsewhere in the state a community forest gets a big federal grant. The USDA is holding a forestry/wildlife seminar for Vermont landowners in August, while both oversight and logging are set to increase on Maine's public lands. This fall's Stihl Timbersports series is bringing lumberjacks to New York City. Demand for engineered wood is on the rise and China's appetite for U.S. hardwoods is soaring. Developing the next generation of pellet stoves.
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Macaulay is probably best known for a very thick book called The Way Things Work (1988). Co-authored by Neil Ardley, this exhaustively researched compendium presents the hows and whys of much of the technology we take for granted. It was followed by Black and White (1990), a considerably slimmer volume and winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal. 1997 saw the publication of a pigeon-lead tour of the Eternal City called Rome Antics, and in the fall of 1998, The New Way Things Work, a revised edition of the '88 book, lumbered onto the stands. Building Big, the companion book to a five part PBS television series about major engineering feats around the world was published in 2000, and two years later Rome and pigeons once again took center stage for a book called Angelo. For his full biography, click here.
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