Autumn 2003

Table of Contents

02

Publisher’s Page

04

Calendar

05

Editorial

09

Playing Games with Critical Habitat
Patrick Parenteau

10

Letters to the Editors

14

Knots and Bolts

19

Why Do Some Trees Take So Long to Rot?
Michael Snyder

21

A Marten Banquet
Susan C. Morse

22

Adirondack Baseball Bats Make the Big Leagues
Stephen Long

29

Canada Yew
Virginia Barlow

30

The Nature Conservancy: At Large on the Landscape
Rebecca Brown

37

Guess Who Came to Dinner? Owl Pellets Reveal the Raptor’s Prey
Leighton Wass

41

A Lesson Before Hiking
William Shutkin

43

The Salmon Trade
Stephen Long

44

Discoveries

46

The Marginal Tree: How to Get the Most Value From Your Woodlot
Robbo Holleran

51

Boxelder Bug and Western Conifer Seed Bug
Virginia Barlow

54

Vermont Logger Brews a Different Kind of Diesel
Kate McKenney

61

Tricks of the Trade
Joseph Smith

62

At Work Managing State Land with Forester George Ritz
Andy Kekacs

64

Wood Lit

69

Mill Prices

75

Outdoor Palette

76

A Place in Mind
David Huddle