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Whole Tree Chipping
The first time you follow a tractor trailer with a container that has vents on the side and only half of a rear door, you wonder what it’s carrying. By the time you see a few more you know that it’s carrying whole tree chips, so you wonder where they’re working.
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Keeping a Place for Vermont’s Bobcats
There in the snow was the track of a large bobcat. Groups of stalking tracks, hugging tight to cover provided by trees and woody shrubs, were interspersed with slow walking tracks, allowing us to “read” this wildcats’s stealthy stalk over 20 yards. Then, we could see that from a motionless crouch the bobcat jumped, ran, then jumped again to land… (more)
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Editorial
Last winter the Vermont legislature revived the Forest Resources Advisory Council (FRAC), a body first established in 1976, but which had been inactive for many years. Public alarm about a spate of forest liquidations was the immediate cause for its rebirth, but the council was asked for its recommendations on a number of important policy issues affecting the future of… (more)
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What the Wildflowers Say
Wildflowers, ferns, mosses and mushrooms narrate a rich story of the woods. They provide clues about climate, they disclose long forgotten tales of hardscabble farms, and they tell us worlds about soils and nutrients.
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Another View
My forestry and wildlife consulting business has changed over the past few years because I have had more frequent requests by clients to remove nuisance animals. Many of these people are puzzled that they are having problems now, when they never have been bothered in the past.
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Blowing in the Wind: Salvaging White Pine from Blowdowns
Where were you when the winds began to blow on July 15, 1995? If you were out in the woods in some sections of Vermont, you would have been treated to an unforgettable, and unnerving experience: inky black clouds overran the sky, strong winds roared, and almost instantaneously, some fairly large patches of trees crashed to the ground. Media reports… (more)
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Life in the Fencerow
Our first Vermont house had been an active one-room schoolhouse until the 1950s, when the drive to consolidate country schools put it out of business. Like many other rural schools dating from the nineteenth century, it had been built in a fenced-off corner of pasture the owner-farmer figured he could do without. What we ended up with, then, was a… (more)
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Hot Spots: Acceptable Management Practices
On any day, except maybe the depths of mud season when activity in the woods shuts down, there are as many as 600 timber harvesting operations going on in the state of Vermont. The impact of those operations on the state’s streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands is hotly debated across the state, and particularly in the Northeast Kingdom which has… (more)
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Vermont’s Mighty Moose
Whoever coined the term charismatic megafauna must have had the moose near the top of the list, at least as far as North America is concerned. Mega these great beasts most assuredly are, and anyone who questions their charisma need only observe the mob of cars piled up along any stretch of highway where a moose is visible!
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Editorial
If you check my wallet, you’ll see that I’m a card-carrying environmentalist.
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