Spring 2001

Table of Contents

04

Calendar

05

Editorial

08

Letters to the Editors

14

Knots and Bolts

19

Is the Lynx Missing?
Susan C. Morse

21

What is the best season for logging?
Michael Snyder

22

Birds in the Brush: The Lowdown on Ground-Nesting Birds
Bryan Pfeiffer

29

Silk Purse or Sow’s Ear? How to Recognize Value in Your Trees
Stephen Long

35

Allegheny Serviceberry
Virginia Barlow

36

Discoveries

38

Crown Jewels: Tree Flowers Are Tiny Gems
H.W. Vogelmann

42

Robert Pike’s Journey Home
Helen-Chantal Pike

46

At Work in the Medicine Woods with Charles “Bud” Thompson
Eleanor Kohlsaat

49

White Pine Weevil
Virginia Barlow

50

Impact of Vermont’s Act 15 Not Clearcut
John Dillon

53

Killing Trout
Stephen Long

54

Spring Snow: Live and in Color
Madeline Bodin

58

Wood Lit

67

Tricks of the Trade

68

Stumpage Prices

75

Finding and Keeping Rural Workers
Bob Sherman

76

A Place in Mind
Eric Zencey