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How can a person obtain some seeds to plant and further the cause?

Good article. I also work for PA DCNR. Great job Jessica and N. Woodlands.

Thanks for an interesting article.

I live on the N Wales border. We have a nearby village called Wolf’s Head, meaning “outlaw territory” in the medieval period.
It’s long time since anyone here heard wolves howling. I’d give my eye teeth to hear song dogs yip-howling in my back garden!

Good job

I live on a mountain in northern Maine and the land abutting mine was a gorgeous and rare hardwood forest with large sugar maples, managed for decades by a family that sold it two years ago.  Now it’s a barren, rocky sheep pasture.  The beautiful old trees are gone. The forest is gone. Will it recover?  Perhaps, in several hundred years.  It’s critical to find and protect whatever remains of these special ecosystems.

The photo of the boreal chickadee was wonderful, I was in Labrador the last time I saw one.  It flew right to me, landed on my finger, did a loop de loop, then flew off.  Quite a special encounter since chickadees are my favorite bird.  Or is it ravens?

Thank you for this article. I’m happy to see the advocacy for old-growth. When we hear about “healthy” forests it is referring to managed forests. It is a misnomer. The healthiest forests are late succession when you take into account soil structures, wildlife habitat, etc.
We need wood products; managed forests play their role, but to imply that “Tree Farms” are the healthiest is incorrect.
Thanks,
Don

Terrific article! Many interesting facts, and so well written. Thank you!

I read—listened to—North Woods this past year and loved it, and now my Library’s book club has been reading it and will discuss it tomorrow. I wanted to brush up and found my way to your site—a pleasure to hear/read the author’s comments. I I especially liked his reply to the first question about why he writes. The love of language and storytelling really came through, and for me was enhanced by the diverse cast of narrators. And as a resident of rural western Mass, I enjoyed witnessing the landscape emerge as its own highly compelling character, so movingly rendered and seemingly familiar. Lastly, having recently taken another look at the profound significance of apples to northeast settler culture—including a rereading of Michael Pollan’s fabulous Apple chapter in The Botany of Desire—I found the role of “Osgood’s Wonder” another compelling element of the book. Bravo!

What an interesting article about Shrews!!

Recently I’ve been drawn to reading how our wildlife adapte to survive the cold winter months. I found your article about the masked shrew fascinating. Thank you for publishing it.

Nice summary of a member of our earthly fauna!

I remember Mike playing along the creek in our backyard. So glad to see what he has been doing for the planet!

Great article. Its enjoyable reading about people that have a passion for managing and preserving ecosystems.

Came across some skinks in Ashland Mass when I was a young child. They were living in a south facing rock garden right on the Sudbury River. Must of been about 1968.

Mr. Gulpin is a hero of mine. His philosophy on wood and woodworking is wonderful. He is inspirational to me.

I accidentally came across this very pleasing article—you know, one click leads to another, and then you’re here somehow.

I had the pleasure of being a student of Dr. Roze’s several times at CUNY-Queens College back in the late 1980s. He invited me to his cabin in the Catskills in June, 1989, where I got to meet Dr. Roze’s lovely wife, and I had an interesting nocturnal outing wherein I got to hold a female porcupine (carefully) with electrician’s gloves while Dr. Roze sedated her for examination. We sat on the porch, ate dinner, and watched a skunk family cross a little bridge over a stream. It was a great time, and even now, almost 40 years later, I still remember Dr. Roze, and the impact his teaching had on me. He is someone I will never forget.

Really enjoying the information you include in these small snippets of natural history!

Thank you for writing your book and thereby making your findings accessible to those who cannot read your scientific papers.  I admire your persistence in studying porcupines.