Autumn 2009

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Stephen Long

04

Calendar
Virginia Barlow

05

The Long View
Stephen Long

09

Here Comes the New Guard
Erin Quigley

10

Letter to the Editors

16

Knots and Bolts

22

What are Indicator Plants?
Michael Snyder

24

Local Color: Finding Wild Sources for Dye in the Forest
Allaire Diamond

30

A National Park Like No Other
Anne Margolis

35

Skunked!
Susan C. Morse

36

At Work Making Coffins with Richard Winter
Amanda Kuhnert

38

A Logger with Four Feet and a Tail
Bernd Heinrich

42

It Pays to Keep Good Trees Growing
Michael C. Greason

45

New Feathers, New Look
Bryan Pfeiffer

46

Velvet “Rub Out”
Susan C. Morse

51

Using a Crosscut Saw
Carl Demrow

52

Discoveries

57

Hay-Scented Fern
Virginia Barlow

59

Tuliptree, Liriodendron tulipifera
Virginia Barlow

64

WoodLit

67

Mill Prices
Northern Woodlands