Summer 1999

Table of Contents

04

Calendar

05

Editorial
Stephen Long

07

Letters to the Editors

12

Knots and Bolts

15

Tracking Tips
Susan C. Morse

16

The Million Dollar Beetle Question
Nicola Smith

21

Woods Whys
Michael Snyder

22

Defining Natural Communities
Elizabeth Thompson

26

Women Take to the Woods
Kathleen Hentcy

29

Black Locust
Virginia Barlow

30

Not to the Swift - the Porcupine
Warner Shedd

33

Notes from the Puckerbrush
Stephen Long

34

Political Thicket: Harmony in Concord
Jon Margolis

36

Chuck Gadzik - Seasoned by Controversy
Phyllis Austin

44

Field Work
Kathleen Hentcy

46

Counting Frogs
Erik Schickedanz

49

Red Turpentine Beetle
Virginia Barlow

50

Trail Markers
Mark Elbroch

53

Tricks of the Trade

56

Wood Lit

60

Stumpage Prices

67

Can We Trust the Paper Companies
Eric Johnson

68

A Place in Mind
Edith Forbes