Summer 2007

Table of Contents

2

From the Center
Stephen Long

04

Calendar

5

The Long View
Stephen Long

9

A Cultural Revolution is Needed to Arrest Timber Theft
Ronald Pedersen

10

Letters to the Editors

16

Knots and Bolts

Looking Through Jewelweed

23

Is it Best to Stake and Tie Newly Planted Trees?
Michael Snyder

24

Red Fox, Gray Fox
Gayle Goddard-Taylor

30

A Pond in the Woods
Tim Matson

36

For Free
Amanda Russell

40

Managing a Mosaic Forest
Irwin Post

45

Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata
Virginia Barlow

46

North Woods Orchids: Showing off in Secret
Steven D. Faccio

50

At Work Managing Shelburne Farms’ Woodlands with Marshall Webb
Nancy Humphrey Case

53

New Life on the Edge
Susan C. Morse

55

Blister Beetle
Virginia Barlow

56

Discoveries

Whey to Help Hemlocks

59

Late-Summer Fishing
Robert Kimber

61

Tricks of the Trade

67

Mill Prices
Northern Woodlands

68

WoodLit

The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid
Technical Guide to Forest Wildlife Habitat Management
Letters from Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods

79

Outdoor Palette

80

A Place In Mind
Wesley McNair