Spring 2024

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Elise Tillinghast

04

Behind the Pages

06

Letters to the Editors

10

Transit to Trails: Bringing People to Nature, One Bus at a Time
Mark Hayward

14

Seasonal Notes
Elise Tillinghast

16

Bobcats Searching for Mates
Susan C. Morse

20

Knots & Bolts

Mile-a-Minute Weed
Double-crested Cormorants in Breeding Season
How to Grow Pussy Willows from Cuttings
Managing Vernal Pools
An Astronomical Double-Header

29

Violets Are Blue (and White and Yellow)
Ben Lord

30

Climate Change Impacts on Northeastern Forests
Alexandra Kosiba

36

There and Back Again: Tracking Broad-Winged Hawk Migration
Brett Amy Thelen

38

Broad-winged Hawk Winter Habitat

44

Outdoor Classrooms Unmasked
Ben Lord

50

Bear Necessities: A Second Chance for Orphaned Cubs
Meghan McCarthy McPhaul

58

Forever Wild: A Land Trust’s Work to Expand the Northeast’s Wildlands
Susan Shea

66

Discoveries
Catherine Schmitt

A Rare Glimpse into a Gray Fox Den
Western New York Forests Are Growing Less Fired Up
How Fungi Return to Disturbed Forest

68

Living Fossils in the Woods
Declan McCabe

69

Vernal
Kateri Kosek

70

Wood Lit

75

Selective Cuts
Ethan Tapper

77

The Woodsmen’s ATV Toolbox
Brett R. McLeod

79

Art Review: Val Hird
Adelaide Tyrol

80

Kidney Pond Pizza
Michael Garrigan