Autumn 2015

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Elise Tillinghast

04

Calendar

05

Editor’s Note
Dave Mance III

06

Letters to the Editors

09

Common Nighthawks: Two Strikes and a Temporal Mismatch
Bryan Pfeiffer

11

Woods Whys: Can I Fertilize a Forest Like I Fertilize a Garden?
Michael Snyder

13

Tracking Tips: Beavers at Home for the Winter
Susan C. Morse

14

Knots and Bolts

27

1,000 Words

28

Where is Don Quixote?
Howard Frank Mosher

36

High-Hanging Fruit: Boom and Bust Seed Crops of Conifers
Susan C. Morse

42

The Power of Microbursts
John Burk

54

A Part of Nature
Barbara Mackay

60

The Diminishing Woodpile
Jonathan Stableford

62

Field Work: At Work Developing Carbon Offsets with Finite Carbon
Patrick White

66

Discoveries
Todd McLeish

70

The Overstory: Mountain Ash
Virginia Barlow

75

Upcountry
Robert Kimber

76

WoodLit

79

Outdoor Palette
Nona Estrin

80

A Place in Mind
Mike Minchin