Summer 2022

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Elise Tillinghast

04

Editor’s Note
Cheryl Daigle

05

1,000 Words
Lisa Lacasse

06

Letters to the Editors

10

Graphic Natural History: The Stench of the Hunt
Michael Sundue

12

Seasonal Notes
Elise Tillinghast

14

Keeping Track of American Toads
Susan C. Morse

18

Knots & Bolts

Lights, Bait, and Staying up Late
Growth of a Fungi Advocate
The Big Boom: 100 Years on the Upper Hudson
The Varied Diet of Beavers
Natural Succession on the Back Acre
Taxidermy as a Tool for Conservation
From Boatbuilder to Furniture Craftsman

32

New Insights on the Spread of an Avian Eye Disease
Kevin Berend

34

Gathering Sheep Sorrel
Ben Lord

35

The Dazzling Diversity of Birds’ Nests
Chris Rimmer

38

Albany Pine Bush: Gift of the Glaciers
Cheryl Lyn Dybas

46

The Bobolink: Emily Dickinson’s Rowdy of the Meadow
Frederick Thurber

48

The Bobolink Project

52

Bike Trails Building Community
Berne Broudy

54

Mountain Biking

60

A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History (Excerpt)
Robert G. Goodby

62

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone: Connecticut’s Last Ancient Forest
David K. Leff

69

The Importance of Legacy Trees
Ethan Tapper

70

Discoveries
Catherine Schmitt

An Uncertain Future for Old Field Forests
Foldable, Moldable Wood
Wabanaki Plant Knowledge

72

Hitchhiking Beetles
Declan McCabe

73

Bird Blind
Karinne Heise

74

Wood Lit

A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
America’s Bountiful Waters
Coffin Honey

77

Getting the Hang of It
Brett R. McLeod

79

Art Review: Hillary Waters Fayle
Adelaide Tyrol

80

The Whistler
Kimberly Ridley