Autumn 2006

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Carl Reidel

04

Calendar

05

The Long View

09

Green Building Materials Designation Needs Rethinking
Jim Bowyer

10

Letters to the Editors

14

Knots and Bolts

Tick or Treat
Maul vs. Axe

19

What is a Climax Forest?
Michael Snyder

21

Bear Bites and Birches
Susan C. Morse

22

Living with Beavers
Madeline Bodin

28

Lumber, Chips, and Sawdust: For Sawmills, There’s No Such Thing as Waste
Stephen Long

33

Common juniper, Juniperus communis
Virginia Barlow

34

Good Year, Bad Year: Ruffed Grouse Populations Ride a Roller Coaster
Tovar Cerulli

40

The Last Log Drive
Marc Johnson

45

Maple Trumpet Skeletonizer, Epinotia aceriella
Virginia Barlow

46

Timing is Everything: How Long Should a Tree Keep Its Leaves?
Bernd Heinrich

50

Discoveries

Extra Calcium Boosts Maple Health
Chasing the Carbon
Orange Is In

53

Mill Prices
Northern Woodlands

54

At Work with Forest Ecologist Rob Bryan

57

The Ripeness of Dead Wood
Bob Kimber

59

Start Your Chainsaw Safely
Carl Demrow, Illustrations by Joseph Smith

62

WoodLit

Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970
For Love of Insects
Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England

75

Outdoor Palette

76

A Place in Mind
Jill Hindle Kiedaisch