Winter 2009

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Stephen Long

04

Calendar
Virginia Barlow

05

The Long View
Stephen Long

09

What Do Women Want?
Annette Lorraine

10

Letters to the Editors

15

Do Tree Stems Freeze in Winter?
Michael Snyder

16

Knots and Bolts

23

Scotch pine, Pinus sylvestris
Virginia Barlow

24

Which Bird Made That Nest?
Bernd Heinrich

30

Anatomy of an Ice-damaged Sugar Maple
Patrick Bartlett

34

The Wood Chemical Industry in the Northeast: An Old Industry with New Possibilities
Hugh O. Canham

42

At Work Guiding in the Adirondacks with Lynn Malerba
Judith E. Harper

45

Winter’s Visitors
Bryan Pfeiffer

46

Balsam, Bunches, and Bows: How to Make a Wreath
Amanda Kuhnert

51

Tapping Trees
Carl Demrow

52

Discoveries

57

Sapstreak Disease
Virginia Barlow

64

Wood Lit

67

Mill Prices
Northern Woodlands