Winter 2008

Table of Contents

02

From the Center
Stephen Long

04

Calendar
Virginia Barlow

05

The Long View
Stephen Long

09

The Nature of Healing
Aldebra Schroll

10

Letters to the Editors

16

Knots and Bolts

Making the Grade
Notes from the Quarantine Zone
Three Great Books for Young People
A Cord is a Cord is a Cord

25

What Causes Those White Splotches on Tree Bark? Are They Bad For The Tree?
Michael Snyder

26

Climate Change, Tree by Tree: How Would a Changing Climate Affect our Forests?
David Dobbs

31

The Fallout
Northern Woodlands

32

The Deep, Dark Woods
Mary Hays

38

At Home in the Snow
Editors, Photos by Garrett Conover

41

True Grit
Susan C. Morse

43

Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis
Virginia Barlow

44

An Appreciation of Debris: The Science and Changing Perceptions of Dead Trees
Alexander Evans and Robert Perschel

48

At Work in the Maine Woods with Logger Tom Cushman
Wendy Bowden Farrand

50

The Shrinking Wood of Winter
C.H. Becksvoort

56

Discoveries

Cascade in Still Water
Milkweed Evolves To Shrug Off Predation

61

Crown Gall, Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Virginia Barlow

68

WoodLit

Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks
From Logs to Lumber: A History of People & Rule Making in New England
The World Without Us

71

Mill Prices
Northern Woodlands

73

Chainsaw Body Positioning for Less Fatigue
Carl Demrow

75

A Tale of Tall Snows
Robert Kimber

76

Thank You to Contributors

79

Outdoor Palette

80

A Place in Mind
John Harrigan