Summer 2003

Table of Contents

02  

Publisher’s Page

04  

Calendar

05  

Editorial

08  

Intelligent Consumption Douglas W. MacCleery

09  

Letters to the Editors

14  

Knots and Bolts

19  

What’s the Scoop on Poop? Susan C. Morse

21  

What Did the Pre-settlement Forest Look Like? Michael Snyder

22  

Family Business: New England Sawmill Bucks the Trend Mary Hull

29  

Black Ash Virginia Barlow

31  

Wee, Sleekit, Cow’rin, Tim’rous Beastie Alan Pistorius

35  

Fishing with Grosbeaks Stephen Long

37  

Mag with a Mission Catherine Tudish

42  

Discoveries

44  

Fireflies Virginia Barlow

46  

Tracking Where the Wood Goes

48  

The Secret Life of Soil Gayle Goddard-Taylor

54  

Fair Wood Robert Parker

58  

At Work with Orchardist Anton Elbers Peg Lopata

61  

Tricks of the Trade Joseph Smith

64  

Wood Lit

69  

Mill Prices

74  

Arbor Day Poster Winners

76  

A Place in Mind Kathryn Kramer