Spring 2015

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Elise Tillinghast

04

Editor’s Note
Dave Mance III

06

Letters to the Editors

08

Calendar

09

Birds in Focus: A Bobolink’s Carbon Fingerprint
Bryan Pfeiffer

11

Woods Whys: Self-Pruning Branches
Michael Snyder

13

Tracking Tips: Curious Sign
Susan C. Morse

14

Knots and Bolts

25

1,000 Words
Roger Irwin

26

The Great Forest Migration
Benjamin Lord

34

Declining Moose Populations: What Does the Future Hold?
Susan C. Morse

44

Conservation Easements
Chuck Wooster

52

I Have Earned My Place: A Logger’s Year, 1936
Jamie Sayen

58

Back in Time: A Photo Essay
Erin Paul Donovan

62

Field Work: At Work Logging (and Training) with John Adler
Patrick White

66

Discoveries
Todd McLeish

70

The Overstory: Red Pine
Virginia Barlow

73

Tricks of the Trade: The $5 Froe
Brett R. McLeod

75

Upcountry

76

WoodLit

79

Outdoor Palette
Adelaide Tyrol

80

A Place in Mind
Tanya Sousa