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Home » NW Issues » Issue 50

In this Issue

• 2 From the Center
• 4 Calendar:  September  October  November
• 5 The Long View
• 9 Another View: Green Building Materials Designation Needs Rethinking
  Jim Bowyer
• 10 Letters to the Editors
• 14 Knots and Bolts:  Maul vs. Axe
   Tick or Treat
  
• 19 Woods Whys: What is a Climax Forest?
  Michael Snyder
• 21 Tracking Tips: Bear Bites and Birches
  Susan C. Morse
• 22 Living with Beavers
  Madeline Bodin
• 28 Lumber, Chips, and Sawdust: For Sawmills, There’s No Such Thing as Waste
  Stephen Long, Photos by Ned Therrien
• 33 Species in the Spotlight: Common juniper, Juniperus communis
  Virginia Barlow
• 34 Good Year, Bad Year: Ruffed Grouse Populations Ride a Roller Coaster
  Tovar Cerulli
• 40 The Last Log Drive
  Marc Johnson
• 45 Under the Microscope: Maple Trumpet Skeletonizer, Epinotia aceriella
  Virginia Barlow
• 46 Timing is Everything: How Long Should a Tree Keep Its Leaves?
  Bernd Heinrich
• 50 Discoveries:  Orange Is In
   Chasing the Carbon
   Extra Calcium Boosts Maple Health
  
• 53 Mill Prices
• 54 Field Work: At Work with Forest Ecologist Rob Bryan
  
• 57 Upcountry: The Ripeness of Dead Wood
  Bob Kimber
• 59 Tricks of the Trade
• 62 Wood Lit
• 75 Outdoor Palette
• 76 A Place in Mind
  Jill Hindle Kiedaisch