Summer 2006

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Henry Whittemore

04

Calendar

05

Editorial
Stephen Long

09

A Natural Alliance
Scot Williamson

10

Letters to the Editors

14

Knots and Bolts

20

What is DBH?
Michael Snyder

22

Two Centuries of Timber and Trampers: Where Recreation and Logging Coexist
Chuck Wooster

28

Skull Session: Collecting and Preparing Animal Skulls
Leighton Wass

33

Locust Leafminer, Odontota dorsalis
Virginia Barlow

34

A Swamp Ramble
Sydney Lea

38

Forest Birds from Floor to Canopy
Jim Block and George Clark

43

Mink: Summer at the Beach
Susan C. Morse

44

Life and Death in a Beech Grove
John Anderson

50

Discoveries

54

WoodLit

59

Chainsaw Guide Bar Maintenance
Joseph Smith

61

Mill Prices
Northern Woodlands

63

Alternate-leaved Dogwood, Cornus alternifolia
Virginia Barlow

67

Meanders
Robert Kimber

72

At Work with Wildlife Photographer Charles Willey
Carla Occaso

75

Outdoor Palette

76

A Place in Mind
Rebecca Oreskes