Issue 71: Winter 2011

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tree Bark
Adults Take up Hunting
Capturing a Bobcat on Camera
Permanent Forest Openings
Spruce Tip Ale, 40-year-old Tractors, Why Coyotes Raise Their Legs, and much more

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Issue 70: Autumn 2011

Ducks, Beautiful Ducks: A Portfolio of Pintails
The Evolution of Logging Equipment
Collaring Black Bears
Life Under the Powerline
Building an Axe Handle, Chewing Spruce, Bore Cutting, and much more

Issue 69: Summer 2011

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House Hunting with Honeybees
Mike Greason and the Gospel of Silviculture
Trends in Maine’s Log Prices
Hemlock Tanneries in Old New York
Headwater Fishing,
an Ode to Warblers,
Battling Beech Brush,
and much more

Issue 68: Spring 2011

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The Hope Issue
Bobcats on the Comeback
Rebuilding a Trout Stream
A Place for Wolf Trees
Student Scientists, Slippery Elm,
Success with Shiitakes, and much more

Issue 67: Winter 2010

Farewell, but not Good-bye, to a Landmark Elm
Too Many White-tailed Deer?
1912 Visit to a Maine Logging Camp
Learning Lumberjack Skills
Fisher Scent Marking, Old-time Wood Turning,
Why Beech Trees Hold Their Leaves,
and much more

Issue 66: Autumn 2010

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Biomass Debate Heats Up
Native Invasives on Your Woodlot
Habitat for Woodcock
Making a Windsor Chair
Why Paper Birch is White
Poisonous Mushrooms,
and much more

Issue 65: Summer 2010

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Old-Fashioned Bee Lining
Tending a Woodland Garden
Income Sources from Your Forestland
Which Caterpillar Becomes Which Butterfly?
Climbing Bears, Chainsaw Gas Controversy,
a $1,600 Maple Tree,
and much more

Issue 64: Spring 2010

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Bats on the Brink
Spring Flower Show in the Woods
Should you Manage your Maple for Timber or Sugar?
Why Trees Grow Where They Do
On the Job with a Biomass Buyer,
Forgotten Stump Fences,
Sharpening an Ax, and much more

Issue 63: Winter 2009

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Which Bird Made That Nest?
A Bygone Industry: Chemicals from Wood
How to Make a Holiday Wreath
Dissecting an Ice-damaged Tree
Snow Fleas, Deer Yards,
Scotch Pine, and much more

Issue 62: Autumn 2009

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Colorful Dyes from the Forest
Silviculture in Vermont’s National Park
Bucks and Bulls in Velvet
The Beaver’s Felling Techniques
Invasive Insects, Plants with a Message,
Growing Big Trees, and much more

Issue 61: Summer 2009

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Wild Bees in Your Woodlot
Canoeing from the Adirondacks to Maine
A Guide to Plants You Shouldn’t Touch
Natural Disturbances and Forestry

Issue 60: Spring 2009

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Certification Comes to Family Forests
Growing Your Own Mushrooms
Springtime in the Turkey Woods
Can the American Chestnut Come Back?

Issue 59: Winter 2008

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Climate Change
The Deep, Dark Woods
The Value of Biomass
Winter Camping in Maine

Issue 58: Autumn 2008

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Doing Battle with Invasive Species
Circling Scavengers
A Fall Feast for Wildlife
North Woods Hunting Camps

Issue 57: Summer 2008

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Forest Relics in Stone and Steel
Marking a Timber Sale
Noel Perrin’s Rural Visa
Identifying Woodland Grasses

Issue 56: Spring 2008

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Lyme Disease
Outdoor Wood Boilers
Water-Powered Sawmills
Northern Forest Economic Report

Issue 55: Winter 2007

Hardwood-Growing Hotspots
Scent Marking
Little Hogback Initiative
Heating with Wood Pellets

Issue 54: Autumn 2007

Hawk Identification
A Family of Loggers
How to See More Wildlife
Keeping Fields Open

Issue 53: Summer 2007

Building a Woods Pond
The Mosaic Forest
Wild Orchids
Red and Gray Foxes

Issue 52: Spring 2007

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Discovering the Presettlement Forest
New Hampshire Homesteaders
A Woodcock’s Spring Show
A Team of Draft Horses

Issue 51: Winter 2006

Seeing the Forest for the Birds
The Wood in Windsor Chairs
A Celebration of Butternuts

Issue 50: Autumn 2006

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Maine’s Last Log Drive
Booms and Busts in Grouse Populations
NH Sawmill Uses Every Bit of Sawdust
Baffling Beavers

Issue 49: Summer 2006

Recreation and Logging
Death of a Beech Woods
Birds of Forest Layers
Cleaning Skulls

Issue 48: Spring 2006

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Energy from Wood: Chips and Bioethanol
Apple Ladders
Logging in a Heron Rookery

Issue 47: Winter 2005

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Coexisting with Wolves
Blue Jays
Excellent Forestry
Scouting Cameras

Issue 46: Autumn 2005

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Timber Theft
Moose Rut
Hunters for the Hungry
Rare Plants Rediscovered

Issue 45: Summer 2005

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Growing and Selling Veneer
Loons on the Rebound
Medicinal Goldthread

Issue 44: Spring 2005

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Investing in a Woodlot
Giant Silk Moths
Spring Wildflowers
Tamarack and Ships’ Knees

Issue 43: Winter 2004

Art of the Decoy
A Year on Tugg Hill
Safe Substitute for Pressure-Treated Lumber
Award Winning New Hampshire Tree Farm

Issue 42: Autumn 2004

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Bear Hunting Referendum
Wind Power Primer
Native Lumber
A Tale of 21 Tails

Issue 41: Summer 2004

21 Views of Our Changing Forest
A Wetlands Summer
Homemade Lumber
How Insects Got Their Names

Issue 40: Spring 2004

Rx for a Broken Forest
Fiddlehead Season
Return of the Osprey
King of the Log Drives

Issue 39: Winter 2003

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The Cedar Family Tree
A New Look at Gifford Pinchot
The Fisher Diaspora
When the Company Moves to China

Issue 38: Autumn 2003

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Nature Conservancy’s New Direction
Adirondack Baseball Bats
Efficient Logging
Owl Pellets
A Different Kind of Diesel

Issue 37: Summer 2003

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New England Sawmill Bucks the Trend
Eeek! 370 Species of Mice
The Northern Woodlands Story
Secret Life of Soil
The Flow of Wood in the Region

Issue 36: Spring 2003

Maine’s Lynx Population
Asian Longhorned Beetles in New York
Learning Birdsongs
Lichen Identification Guide

Issue 35: Winter 2002

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The Forest at Quabbin Reservoir
Violins from Spruce and Maple
Liquidation Harvesting in Maine
Mapping Soils

Issue 34: Autumn 2002

Woodworking Project in Beech
Hurricane of ‘38
Coyotes on the Move
Better Woods Roads

Issue 33: Summer 2002

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Markets for Low Grade Wood
The Gifts of a Forest
Fire and Granite
Maine Teacher Tours
Return of the Trout?

Issue 32: Spring 2002

Conservation Easements
A Moss and Liverwort Primer
Champion Lands Controversy
College Woodsmen

Issue 31: Winter 2001

The Black Bear in Winter
Uneven-aged Management
Scandinavian Forestry
Seeds on Snow
Student Conservation Association

Issue 30: Autumn 2001

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A New Class of Forestland Investors
The Greening of New Hampshire - SPNHF
Vermont Bowl Mill Mixes Old and New
Northern Woodlands Goes to School
Bumper Seed Crops

Issue 29: Summer 2001

Seventy Years in a New York Pine Stand
Maine’s National Park Debate
Chanterelles
Kids, Trees and a Boat
A Walk through the Northern Forest

Issue 28: Spring 2001

What Are Your Trees Worth?
Ground-Nesting Woodland Birds
Log Drive Historian Robert Pike
Tree Flowers
Snow Algae
Canada Lynx

Issue 27: Winter 2000

What Do Animals Need? And Do Your Woods Provide It?
Tree Identification in Winter
Debunking Wildlife Myths

Issue 26: Autumn 2000

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A Buck Sheds his Velvet
Maine’s Forestry Referendum
Forestry at Paul Smith’s College
Forests, Carbon and Climate Change
Landowners Learn About Habitat

Issue 25: Summer 2000

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Adirondack Guide-Boats
Flying Squirrels
Tree Biologist Alex Shigo
Look Who’s Wearing the Chaps
Learning in the Landscape

Issue 24: Spring 2000

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Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Learning to Grow Lichens
Tree Girdling
Roadless Designation
Appalachian Trail in Canada
The Lemonade Trees

Issue 23: Winter 1999

Decade of Change in the Northern Forest
1998 Ice Storm’s Ecological Impact
Deeryards for the Next Century
History of the Ax

Issue 22: Autumn 1999

Wild Ginseng
Wolves in the Northeast
Today’s Adirondack Park
Logging with Horses

Issue 21: Summer 1999

Porcupine
Counting Frogs
Defining Plant Communities
Becoming an Outdoorswoman
Maine Forester Chuck Gadzik

Issue 20: Spring 1999

The Call of the Loon
A Logger’s Day
Springtime Foraging
Northern Forest Stewardship Act

Issue 19: Winter 1998

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Clearcutting and Habitat Management
Reforesting Lyndon State Forest
Zero Cut Controversy
Long Trail Cleanup
Favorite Places on Public Land

Issue 18: Autumn 1998

Migrating Birds
Energy from Wood
Private Property: Rights and Responsibilities
Vermont’s Act 60

Issue 17: Summer 1998

Trees in Trouble: Chestnut, Butternut and Beech
Novels from the North Country
White Ash
Saddled Prominent

Issue 16: Spring 1998

Spring Comes to the Kingdom
Invasion of Honeysuckle
Volunteers for Wildlife
Green Certification

Issue 15: Winter 1997

The Missing Lynx
Connecticut River Log Drives
Snow, Ice and Trees
Should We Buy More Public Land?

Issue 14: Autumn 1997

The Weasel
Powderpost Beetles
Understanding the C Line
A Tour of Vermont’s Fire Towers

Issue 13: Summer 1997

Beaver Pond History
Aldo Leopold Profile
Unusual Wood Products
Consulting Foresters: What They Do
Herbicide Controversy

Issue 12: Spring 1997

Swamp Ecology
Common Snipe
Safety Equipment for Woods Work
Log Export Debate
Measuring Forest Health

Issue 11: Winter 1996

Green Packaging from the Green Mountains
Winter Survival Strategies
Strap on Your Snowshoes and Head for the Hills

Issue 10: Autumn 1996

Wild Apple Trees
Encounters with Ruffed Grouse
Logger Education in Vermont
Conserving Your Woods

Issue 9: Summer 1996

Meet Vermont’s Moose
Life in the Fencerow
Logging and Water Quality
Woodland Wildflowers

Issue 8: Spring 1996

Whole Tree Chipping
Springtime Courtship in Vernal Pools
Will Vermont’s Forest Ever Burn?
Tracking Vermont’s Bobcats

Issue 7: Winter 1995

A Celebration of Dead Trees
Nature’s Hitman: the Fisher at Work
The Conte Wildlife Refuge
From Tree to Table, a Maple Makes the Grade

Issue 6: Autumn 1995

Vermont’s Coyotes
All About Posting Property
The Keys to Color
A Safer Way to Fell Trees

Issue 5: Summer 1995

Woodland Bird Populations
Paper Manufacturing in Vermont
Rivers and Forestry
Children Learn About Outdoors

Issue 4: Spring 1995

The Sustainable Sugarbush
Should You Tap Your Trees This Spring?
Spring Ephemerals
Vermont’s Serene Singer, The Hermit Thrush

Issue 3: Winter 1994

Nulhegan Basin Deeryard
Pruning Crop Trees
Vermont’s Original Forest Language
White Pine Blister Rust

Issue 2: Autumn 1994

Good Neighbors
Tamarack
The Unseen Traveler
A Fiery Farewell

Issue 1: Summer 1994

Portable Mills
Yellow Birch
One Tough Winter
The Look of Logging