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Captive Hunting in Vermont?
January 02, 2009
While browsing a newspaper recently, I was encouraged to read the headline: “State moves to regulate ‘captive hunting.‘“ It detailed the fact that after 10 years of debate, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board has finally approved a rule that regulates “game farms” in the state. This is a …
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Happy New Year
January 01, 2009
Happy New Year from Northern Woodlands!
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Coal in My Stocking? Thanks!
December 26, 2008
A non-profit group in the Adirondacks, the Adirondack Council, is making it possible for ordinary folks to do something proactive about global warming. For a minimum of $25, you can purchase a tiny quantity of future carbon emissions and remove it from circulation.
The story starts a few years …
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Harvesting in Lean Times
December 12, 2008
Our Autumn 2008 issue features a beautiful photo essay on our forest friends building their food reserves for winter called “Harvesting in a Time of Plenty“. Our website now boasts a lovely slide show presentation of this same essay.
These images keep coming back to me as I consider …
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Vanishing Track
November 28, 2008
I cut a mature buck track walking a scrape line opening weekend – a deer heavy enough that he left deep imprints in the soggy forest floor. He was headed uphill to bed, and because of the wet, windy weather, it was an easy track to follow. I had the …
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Illegal Logging
November 21, 2008
A few weeks back, The New Yorker ran a fascinating story on illegal logging, with a focus on the trade in stolen logs in China and Russia. This clearly is a huge problem rife with underworld connections, shady deals, and rampant destruction of forests.
I was pleased that The …
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Salvaging a Word
November 14, 2008
One Friday afternoon this past July, a micro-burst hailstorm descended on our farm. I noticed right away that most of our vine crops had been decimated. The following morning, I noticed that a three-acre stand of maturing pine off the south end of the field had fared equally badly; those …
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Celebrating with Local Foods
November 07, 2008
On Oct. 28th, our staff, our publication partners, state agency exhibitors, and landowners celebrated our new Vermont version of The Place You Call Home. Folks traveled from all over the state to join the conversation about best stewardship practices on a rainy night when plunking down on the couch to …
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The Place I Call Home
October 31, 2008
This past summer, my husband and I moved to Corinth, VT, from one of those flat cities to the south. I began working as the Administrative Coordinator at Northern Woodlands in September, and have been busy adjusting to my new life ever since!
When we decided to make good on …
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The Long and the Short of It
October 24, 2008
We’re all familiar with the impossibly loud blasts emitted by tiny spring peepers in March. But have you noticed that peepers peep again in early October, not from ponds, but from the woods? In the fall this song as tentative as the spring peep is unabashed. And white-throated sparrows, …
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