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Home » NW Issues » Issue 47

In this Issue

• 2 From the Center
• 4 Calendar:  December  January  February
• 5 Editorial
• 9 Another View: Community Water
  Hugo Leipmann
• 10 Letters to the Editors
• 13 Tracking Tips: Form Follows Function
  Susan C. Morse
• 14 Knots and Bolts:  Whittling Down the Fuel Bill
   Taking Winter with a Grain of Salt
   Family Forest Owners Hold the Cards
   Downright Downeast
  
• 19 Woods Whys: Do We Have To Choose Between Tapping Maples For Sugaring Or Growing Them For Timber?
  Michael Snyder
• 22 Wolves as Neighbors: A Lesson from Transylvania
  Alan Sparks
• 30 A Forester’s Pursuit of Excellence
  Irwin Post
• 36 Field Work: At Work Logging with Ed and Robert Berry
  Jami Badershall
• 38 Winter Hunt
  Charles Fergus
• 41 Under the Microscope: Tinder Polypore, Fomes fomentarius
  Virginia Barlow
• 42 The Curious Blue Jay
  Andrew Thompson
• 46 Discoveries:  “Bird-Brained” No Insult to Winter Residents
   Sink or Source?
   Remedy for Winter Blues and Arthritis, Too
  
• 49 Mill Prices
• 50 Candid Cameras Focus on Wildlife
  Donald Wharton
• 54 Wood Lit
• 59 Notes from the Puckerbrush: First Hunt
  Stephen Long
• 61 Species in the Spotlight: Gray birch, Betula populifolia
  Virginia Barlow
• 67 Tricks of the Trade
• 72 Thank You to Contributors
  
• 75 Outdoor Palette
• 76 A Place in Mind
  Pavel Cenkl