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

 

Cattail Rhizome: Flour from the Marsh Benjamin Lord

 

Eye Protection Mary Holland

 

Managing Ecological Change in a Nonprofit Working Woodland Hans M. Carlson

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

 

Chemicals That Bees Need Todd McLeish

66  

Discoveries Todd McLeish

 

Technology Tells the Tale Todd McLeish

 

Chemicals That Bees Need Todd McLeish

 

Extra Genes = Killer Fungus Todd McLeish

 

Extra Genes = Killer Fungus Todd McLeish

 

Technology Tells the Tale 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