Autumn Olive
April 17th 2010
Virginia: Other species of once (December 1969) recommended “wildlife plantings” (by the USDA Soil Conservation Service or “SCS”) were Tartarian and Amur Honeysuckle. I came across the pamplet (PA-940) while going through old files. As… Read More »Autumn Olive
April 16th 2010
My nemisis is oriental bittersweet. Since my teens I have been roaming forests from Pennsylvania to Maine clipping and yanking the cursed stuff. Once you get an eye for it, you will see it is… Read More »Autumn Olive
April 16th 2010
I have a Norway maple on my conscience. (And a house loaded with windows that birds keep trying to fly through!) Read More »Autumn Olive
April 16th 2010
Where can I find detailed directions on how to eradicate buckthorn, honeysuckle, and wild rose? cjf Read More »Autumn Olive
April 16th 2010
Virginia, I go to great lengths to locate stands of Japanese knotweed so that I can pick it and eat it fresh and also use as the main ingredient in a wonderful chutney recipe. I… Read More »Autumn Olive
April 16th 2010
Southwestern Michigan is over-run with the stuff. AND with garlic mustard. AND with buckthorn. AND other invasives as well. I have a large woodland farm, conservation easements all in possession of the Southwest Michigan Land… Read More »Autumn Olive
April 16th 2010
I bought a house with AO growing on it, they bought it for the turkeys. I spent 5 years cutting, hacking and mowing. When I sold the place, I warned the new owners about not… Read More »Growing Shiitake Mushrooms: Step-by-Step Guide to an Agroforestry Crop
April 16th 2010
inoculated logs last spring. lots of mycilium showing on logs and bark splitting in spots. theres a few very small shrooms starting to pop. temps are in 60’s day,30’s night. what is the optimum temp.… Read More »Clearing the Air: Outdoor Wood Boilers Face Regulation
April 12th 2010
“Whoever doesn’t like the smoke needs to move back to the city and inhale the smog there. Burning wood does not produce harmful gasses into the air.” Respectfully, did you take a close look at… Read More »Tale of the Tick: How Lyme Disease is Expanding Northward
April 10th 2010
Just a note to say that ticks are active for longer periods than some information suggests. We have found ticks on people and dogs every month of the year except January and February. The dogs… Read More »Plant-Eating Apparitions
April 9th 2010
‘Only eight [...] walkingstick species are found in North America.’ Actually, it’s about 30. Read More »Redwings Are Back, Staking Out Territory
April 6th 2010
Growing up in Orange, Vermont, back in the 50’s, I took an early interest in the birds. This was due in part to having a father that taught me at an early age the names… Read More »Psoriasis of Spring
April 3rd 2010
You captured the feel of spring with great accuracy…up north I did get one more run of some really rich syrup making on Good Friday…but then I pulled my taps. It was 85 degrees and… Read More »Psoriasis of Spring
April 2nd 2010
Lovely essay. Captures the sense of things just right. Except for one detail: 4 months of winter? Not in these parts! Even though it was light compared to other winters, I count six! Read More »Psoriasis of Spring
April 2nd 2010
Hi Dave: Just want to comment on your Psoriasis of Spring. I really enjoy your vivid analogies of this year’s spring or rather pre-spring. It seems particularly true this year because of the early departure… Read More »Psoriasis of Spring
April 2nd 2010
Nice piece, Dave Mance. Yes winter is long and brutal and hardest part comes at the end; darkest before the dawn. Emerging from a car wreck analogy is apt… We emerge cautiously, squinting in bright… Read More »Black Birch: Betula lenta
March 27th 2010
How much is it to buy black birch wood for use? Read More »A New Threat for Peregrine Falcons?
March 26th 2010
What was unexpected was the amount of deca-BDE in the falcon eggs. Although total PBDE remained steady over the 10-year study, concentrations of deca-BDE, once thought to be too big a molecule to cross cell… Read More »Why Sap Runs
March 22nd 2010
Charlie Levesque, of Antrim, NH, submitted the following comment, which was otherwise blocked by our website security filter: Great technical review of the physics of how we get sap for maple syrup making. The one… Read More »Why Sap Runs
March 22nd 2010
the air space inside a maple tree is what makes sap flow possible; most other trees don’t have the same internal arrangement, so they don’t “run.” this air space also keeps a maple from exploding,… Read More »