Stephen Long
Stephen Long
Stephen Long is co-founder and co-editor (with Virginia Barlow) of Northern Woodlands magazine. In addition, he serves as publisher/executive director of the nonprofit Center for Northern Woodlands Education.
“I’d highly recommend starting an outdoors magazine to anyone who wants to be stuck indoors for the rest of his life,” he says. Despite such complaints, he does occasionally get a chance to fish, hunt, hike, tend apple trees, and cut firewood. He and his wife, novelist Mary Hays, have recently conserved their forestland in Corinth, Vermont.
Steve is a justice of the peace, fence viewer, and chairman of Corinth’s Conservation Commission, and serves as a Vermont commissioner on the Connecticut River Joint Commissions. He is involved as a board member of Orange County Headwaters, a grassroots conservation project, and Oxbow Senior Independence Program, a program that provides adult day services for elders.
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Virginia Barlow
Virginia Barlow
Virginia Barlow works as a consulting forester at Redstart Forestry as well as writing and editing for Northern Woodlands. She has lived in Corinth since graduating from college the first time, except for spending two years in Burlington, Vermont, when she went to college for the second time. She serves on the town's planning commission and as the town tree warden.
Finding material for the magazine's tree species, insect and disease profiles, and for the weekly calendar forces her to spend time outdoors, as do gardening, beekeeping, messing around with firewood, and just general messing around.
She visits the Caribbean each year to spend time with her partner, Chris Doyle, and to sail, fish, snorkel, and learn about island plants and animals. Her Caribbean trips provided the material for her book, The Nature of the Islands, which she is in the process of updating.
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Chuck Wooster
Chuck Wooster
Chuck Wooster is the associate editor of Northern Woodlands. He writes regularly for the magazine and edits the weekly “The Outside Story” newspaper article series. Behind the scenes, he helps handle the cash and keep the train on the tracks.
Other than this day job (which often happens at night), Wooster runs an organic vegetable operation out of his home near White River Junction, Vermont. One thing has led to another, the vegetables have led to a small flock of sheep, and the sheep have led to the recently published Living With Sheep from Lyons Press. The long-awaited follow-up, Living With Pigs, is due out in the Spring of 2008.
After the first killing frost, Wooster is a member of the Selectboard in Hartford, Vermont. He dearly wishes he were also a jazz bass musician, but, at least as of this writing, he isn’t.
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Anne Margolis
Anne Margolis
Anne Margolis is the managing editor and school program coordinator for Northern Woodlands, which she joined in 2002. She manages the flow of stories and artwork, from gleam-in-the-eye to finished issue, and even writes a few stories here and there. She also serves on the Town of Corinth’s Conservation Commission and spends her free time skiing, mountain biking, getting lost in the woods, cooking, reading, pretending to play the piano, and testing out various rural enterprises that other people actually have responsibility for.
Before Northern Woodlands, Anne worked in the wind energy industry, in museum education, and doing fieldwork. She went to Dartmouth College and majored in Environmental Studies, with a minor in Biology, which brought her to the only foreign country (not counting Canada, of course) that she has visited thus far: Zimbabwe. She dreams of traveling to other exotic locales, but they'll have to be at higher latitudes, because her husband, apple-tree aficionado and cartographer Peter Allen, has the heat tolerance of a polar bear. Anne and Peter live with their three very spoiled cats and a dog, Minnie, who also works at Northern Woodlands and is paid in cookies.
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Amy Peberdy
Amy Peberdy
Amy Peberdy gained experience in magazine production from the printing side, having worked for 5 years at the company that prints Northern Woodlands. Still, somewhere in the back of her mind she always knew that she’d give up her 45-mile commute as a customer service rep at the printer and put her expertise to work five minutes from home at Northern Woodlands.
Studio Art majors do many things well, except make a living with their art. So Amy’s employment has run the gamut while raising three children with her husband Bill, a cabinetmaker. Now as an energetic first-time grandmother, she’s sewn up all her experiences to dedicate herself as Advertising and Circulation Manager at Northern Woodlands.
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Courtney Mahaney
Courtney Mahaney
As the webmaster, Courtney handles all things web, and dabbles in magazine circulation.
She is married to cave diver, blogger and aspiring violin maker, Cliff Pearson. Together with their cats, koi and pet ducks, they are escaping the record snow and rainfalls to sunny California to play on the beach and reduce their carbon footprint by becoming a one-car family with a preference towards public transit. She hopes one day to graduate from being a seamster to a full fledged tailor… or printmaker… or perhaps some combination of the two.
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