Winter 2002

Table of Contents

04

Calendar

05

Editorial

08

Analysis Paralysis Afflicts National Forests
Jason Stock

09

Letters to the Editors

14

Knots and Bolts:

19

Slippery Business (or is it Pleasure?)
Susan C. Morse

21

Why Does a Prism Work?
Michael Snyder

22

Managing Wood for Water at Quabbin Reservoir
Robert Kimber

30

White on White
Howard Norman

33

‘Tis the Season
Stephen Long

35

Hackberry
Virginia Barlow

36

At Work in a City Forest with David Schneider
Brent Curtis

38

Sonatas in Spruce; Minuets in Maple
Catherine Tudish

44

Discoveries

46

Buy, Cut, Sell: Liquidation Harvesting Chops up Maine’s Forests
Drew Barlow

53

Ash Flower Gall Mite
Virginia Barlow

54

Soil Mapping: Getting Down to Earth with a Soil Scientist
Marijke Hecht

61

Tricks of the Trade

64

Wood Lit

69

Mill Prices

75

In Season
Nona Estrin & Charles Johnson

76

A Place in Mind
Sue Kashanski