Autumn 2025

Table of Contents

02  

From the Center Jackson Saul

04  

Editor’s Note Meghan McCarthy McPhaul

05  

1,000 Words Lenny Gorski

07  

Behind the Pages

08  

Letters to the Editors

12  

Community Voices: Alpine Stewardship with Laura Waterman Catherine Wessel

16  

Seasonal Notes Elise Tillinghast

20  

Knots & Bolts

32  

Reservoir Todd Davis

35  

Shagbark Hickory Russ Cohen

36  

Nature Journal Clare Walker Leslie

40  

Woods Work: Learning Through the Game of Logging Ben Conant, photographer

46  

The Evolution of Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Industry Jack Beaudoin

56  

Foraging for Fashion Heather Beasley Doyle

62  

The Gift of Access: An Adirondack Story Amy Godine

68  

Discoveries

 

Enhancing Pollinator Habitats Along Natural Gas Pipeline Rights-of-Way Loren Merrill

 

Reassembly of Disturbed Forests Portends Climate Resilience but Diversity Loss Loren Merrill

 

New Bacteria Discovered in Rabbit Ticks Chris Gillen

70  

Bumble Bees: Iconic and Essential Declan McCabe

71  

Off the Rails Laurinda Lind

72  

Wood Lit

 

The Last Beast We Revel In Michael Garrigan

 

Smithsonian Trees of North America Emily Hitchcock

 

Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine Cheryl Perusse Daigle

74  

What Are Mycorrhizal Fungi and What Role Do They Have in the Forest? Alexandra Kosiba

77  

How to Compression Test a Chainsaw Brett R. McLeod

79  

Art Review: Ava Roth Adelaide Tyrol

80  

A Small Stretch of River T.C. Mazar