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

 

If Winter Comes, Can Springtails Be Far Behind? Alan Pistorius

16  

Knots and Bolts

 

Four Centuries of Slow Growth Northern Woodlands

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

 

Digging for Worms Todd McLeish

52  

Discoveries

 

Predicting Fishless Lakes Todd McLeish

 

Where the Cellulose Meets the Road Todd McLeish

 

Digging for Worms Todd McLeish

57  

Sapstreak Disease Virginia Barlow

64  

Wood Lit

 

Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki Hannah Merker

 

Shop Class as Soulcraft, An Inquiry Into the Value of Work Doug Stowe

 

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts) Benjamin Peberdy

67  

Mill Prices Northern Woodlands