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Patrick White
A couple weeks back our friend Mike Batten, a logger who lives down the road from our office, dropped off a century-old journal he thought we might find interesting. It was kept by Ernest Magoon, a farmer and woodsman who lived in West Topsham, Vermont...
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Northern Woodlands Readers
Your photos showed baby snapping turtles emerging from the mud, a heron snacking on a huge fish, and one very tired looking daddy cardinal. Maples began to turn, kids frolicked on the rocks, and those of us who managed to stay awake late on September 27, enjoyed the spectacle of a total lunar eclipse and a blood moon.
View GalleryWe're now on the hunt for October 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.Submit Your Photo
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Laurie Morrissey
We call them shooting stars, and they never fail to make us catch our breath in surprise and wonder. But they're not stars at all. Those bright, brief streaks across the night sky are meteors. And, clear skies permitting, the next few months bring three excellent chances to see batches of them...
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Declan McCabe
Invasive species have earned their bad reputations. English sparrows compete with native birds from Newfoundland to South America. Australian brown tree snakes are well on their way to exterminating every last bird from the forests of Guam. And I don't think anyone can fully predict how Columbia's rivers will change in response to drug lord Pablo Escobar's escaped hippopotamus population...
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Who's munching on this milkweed?
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, October 28, 2015.
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Congratulations to our winner Richard Doucette! Richard receives a Season's Main Events Day Calendar.
A post for posterity. This piece of old wood was found sticking up out of a young forest in Chepachet, Rhode Island. What kind of wood is it?
NW Answer:
The old post is chestnut.
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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:
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