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As Still as a Stump: How to Have a Close Encounter of the Wild Kind
Aldo Leopold wrote, “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” I am definitely among the latter. It refreshes my soul to see wild animals up close and at ease, in their native haunts. I have come to know the animals as my neighbors, not as things to be observed at a distance in a… (more)
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Fields Among the Forests: Keeping Open Land Open
Can you name the three most heavily forested states in the United States? The answer might surprise you: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, in that order. All three are 80 percent or more forested.
That means that if your piece of land happens to include an old field or meadow, you have something of a rare treasure on your hands.… (more)
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Managing a Mosaic Forest
According to traditional forestry, there are two kinds of forests. Every forest you step into can be categorized as either even-aged or uneven-aged. But most foresters regularly come across woodlots that don’t neatly fit into either of those two pigeonholes, and they can be left scratching their heads over how to manage them.
When a forester creates a management plan… (more)
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A Pond in the Woods
All ponds have water in common. It’s their surroundings that tell them apart.
The pasture pond is a sun-splashed delight prized for its recreational opportunities and as a landscape accent. The shadowy woods pond, on the other hand, evokes instead a mysterious realm of covert creatures, hidden wildflowers and plants, and rich ecological complexity. Unlike the vacationer’s sandy beach, the… (more)
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Rediscovering a Long-Gone Forest: An Interview with Charlie Cogbill
Photo by The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
A managed oak forest in twenty-first-century ConnecticutCharlie Cogbill has spent a large part of his career studying a forest that no longer exists: the pre-settlement forest in New England and New York. A plant ecologist, Cogbill began… (more)
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New Hampshire Homestead
Photo by Ned Therrien
David and C.C. take a break from putting up wood.I remember several years ago asking David White where he lived and maybe something about what he did for a living. “I’m a homesteader up in Sandwich,” he replied. It was around a campfire,… (more)
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A Man and a Team
Fifteen cords a winter. I’d thought it was more like 10 but my mother informs me otherwise and although she’s 80 she’s not only still sharp as a sawtooth but has much better reasons than I to recall the accurate figure. This was the amount of wood cut by my father to heat the house, a standard two-over-four cape with… (more)
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The Wood in Windsor Chairs
“Windsor furniture is, I believe, the most characteristically American and the most historically significant furniture style to emerge from eighteenth-century America. It is a democratic style, one which appealed to and was used by all levels of society.”
-Charles Santore in The Windsor Style in America 1730-1830.The enduring appeal of the Windsor chair is due… (more)
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Seeing the Forest for the Birds
Photo by John Douglas/Flying Squirrel
Steve Hagenbuch, Chuck Wooster, neighbor Rachael Cohen
and Jim Shallow review Wooster's forest-management map
before heading into the woodsSteve Hagenbuch looked up from a thicket of glossy-leaved shrubs and said, “Given the buckthorn problem here, I think single-tree selection might be… (more)
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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 might have seen, and then I got it: the ad was for their family’s sawmill. What they saw is lumber.
Today, that ad might read, “Come… (more)