Winter 1999

Table of Contents

04  

Calendar

05  

Editorial

07  

Letters to the Editors

10  

Knots and Bolts

13  

Tracking Tips Susan C. Morse

15  

Woods Whys Michael Snyder

17  

Life Beneath the Snow Julia Hand

20  

Curators of the Classic American Ax Robert Kimber

25  

Deeryards for the Next Century Stephen Long

30  

Political Thicket: The Will of the People Jon Margolis

33  

The 1998 Ice Storm: Disaster or Disturbance David Dobbs

37  

Notes from the Puckerbrush Stephen Long

38  

Field Work Kathleen Hentcy

40  

The Northern Forest Lands Council - Five Years Later Rebecca Brown

47  

The Bronze Birch Borer Virginia Barlow

51  

Tricks of the Trade

53  

Red Pine Virginia Barlow

54  

Wood Lit

60  

Stumpage Prices

67  

Acid Rain Never Went Away John F. Sheehan

68  

A Place in Mind Castle Freeman, Jr.