Summer 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: Finding Refuge in Reference Birds
Bryan Pfeiffer

11

Woods Whys: Acorns and Weather
Michael Snyder

13

Tracking Tips: Nose Probes and Digs
Susan C. Morse

14

Knots and Bolts

Sumac-ade
Stewardship Out in the Open at Hidden Valley
Fox Versus Raccoon
On the Mosquito Trapline
Community Forestry in Guatemala

23

The Outside Story

25

1,000 Words
Frank Kaczmarek

26

On Space Probes and Oak Seedlings
Joe Herring

30

Yankee Tarheels: Remembering the Pitch Pine Industry of Colonial America
Emery Gluck

38

200 Million Years and Counting
Lauren DiBiccari, illustrator

46

A Solo Traverse of the White Mountains
Tony Chase

50

The Hatch
Thomas Ames Jr.

60

ATVs: Recreation and Conservation
Meghan McCarthy McPhaul

62

Field Work: At Work (Exporting Wood) with Ally Global Logistics
Patrick White

66

Discoveries
Todd McLeish

Pathways to the Ponds
Hearts of Darkness
Grain Gene Fights Fungus

70

The Overstory: Striped Maple
Virginia Barlow

73

Tricks of the Trade: Living Fenceposts
Brett R. McLeod

76

WoodLit

Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness
Neither Mountain Nor River
Farming the Woods

79

Outdoor Palette
Adelaide Tyrol

80

A Place in Mind