Lead Article
Rust in Peace
“There’s a place called Faraway Meadow
We never shall mow in again,
Or such is the talk at the farmhouse:
The meadow is finished with men.”
--From “The Last Mowing,” by Robert Frost
The steel-wheeled hay elevator, once used for loading loose hay into a wagon now seems out of place in the shade of a mature forest, but it is preserved in place exactly where the last farmhand parked it at the edge of a mowing at the end of summer, after …
Feature Articles
The Root of the Problem
As far as trees are concerned, root damage is the root of all evil. Well, most of it, anyway. No matter what symptoms are visible – early fall color (a sign of stress), sudden death of branches, …
Tale of the Tick: How Lyme Disease is Expanding Northward
It’s only natural to take a human-centered view of the world. Through this lens, Lyme disease is a ferocious malady that is on the march north. In New Hampshire, researchers recently found that 70 percent of black-legged …
The Outside Story
Un-Damming Our Rivers
June 30, 2008
In both New Hampshire and Vermont, landowners and state officials are discussing the benefits of removing old dams and restoring rivers to their historical banks. Many of these dams are small, though some, like Hinsdale’s McGoldrick Dam, which was removed from the New Hampshire’s Ashuelot …
Editor's Blog
Morels
by Stephen Long
June 13, 2008
Farm, Forest, and Diesel Fuel
by Chuck Wooster
May 23, 2008
Kickin’ Tires
by Stephen Long
May 08, 2008
From the Archive
Lumber, Chips, and Sawdust: For Sawmills, There’s No Such Thing as Waste
A few years back, I saw a very cute ad that featured a photo of a couple of toddlers. The script read, “Come see what we saw.”
I wondered what it was that they …
