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I am not atrapper but my friend is and he mostly traps Essex county,n.y. We have had 3 trail cameras out mainly around the blue ridge road for about three months before fall. Last year we saw a couple fisher, not many rabbits, and a few coyotes. This year up till middle of sept., lots of rabbits, one coyote, and no fisher,martin squirrels, etc.  Have the fisher moved further south because I see quite a few in washington county lately?    Thank you,Jim

What do you pay them for a ton of witch hazel chips?  I’d like to know how much we (my husband and I ) can earn selling our witch hazel trees.
Thanks for any info you can give.

Karlayna, please see author Chuck Wooster’s response to your question about other C4 flowers below.

Hi Karlayna—

From what I can tell, marigolds are C3. There are, however, numerous different flowers with the “marigold” common name, and it’s possible that one or more of these are C4 because the aster family (which includes most marigolds) does have some C4 members. Sunflowers, for example.

If you have a specific flower in mind, I’d suggest a web search of that flower name (ideally the genus and species), plus “C4 photosynthesis.” Wikipedia, in particular, seems quite good at pointing out C4 where it crops up.

—Chuck

I have been fishing by 9N bridge in Upper Jay just to see if anything survived. (most of the houses & business were destroyed) The East branch of the Ausable was at about 19’ flood stage is 7. I have released a 16” rainbow & several browns around 12” all real healthy.
I was thrilled to see fish could survive this disaster.

Great story Mark, I was just debating whether to purchase a gransfors axe or splitting maul, and thanks to you am going for the axe!

what other plants (flowers) are c4? and are marigolds c4? thanks

Hi Richard,

I don’t know offhand of anyone who leases land in southern New Hampshire, but you might inquire at Allard Lumber (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))and see if they know of any timber company holdings with camp leases. I know Lyme Timber has Adirondack camp leases (http://lymelease.com/index.asp?w=pages&r=0&pid=3)—not sure about New Hampshire. For New York leases, you can also try Christmas and Associates. (http://www.landandcamps.com). Good luck!

Richard…....Northern Woodlands is selling a camp on leased lands owned by Plum Creek just outside the town of Island Pond, VT. You can email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and I’ll email a brief description of the camp if you’re interested.

I took pictures of 2 Guardian Ants working Woolly Aphids.  I am trying to find the name of the ant species that is acting as guardian to this mass of Woolly Aphids, Prociphilus tessellatus, on a growing Alder shrub next to a lake.
Can anyone point me in a direction to find this information?  I would be happy to submit an image if desired.

Thanks,
Richard

I’m wondering if anyone can tell me where to go or who to talk to to find a leased camp. When I was a kid My mom leased a camp for years in northern washington county in Maine. I had many of my best memories at that camp. Now I would like to find one to spend my last few yrs of leisure time at. Need to get back to nature. Thanks for any help you can give

i enjoy the magazine and emails.  i have a keen interest in mushrooms but would need some tutoring as to what is edible and not.  are there any groups in the upper valley that get together for foraging field trips?

thanks,  mike

This is great.  I’m so glad you’re focusing on this issue.  Re:edible/non-edible.  Most fungi are so visually stunning they do make a lasting impression.  But, somehow they rarely match precisely what is shown in the several mushroom guide books we have.  Other than something like the morel, boletus, and amanita, I find myself not quite sure.  I know positive identification requires patient analysis, i.e. time and the use of keys.  But it would be helpful to take a workshop.  Does your mycologist friend, or others, offer such a thing?  Or, could Northern Woodlands feature several mushrooms with commentary in the fall issue.  At least one could learn about, say, two a year and feel more confident than when referring to guide books alone.

Be interesting to know the impact on many aquatic mammals   Muskrat, Beaver, Otter, ect. on a flood of that violence.  Living on the Penobscot River and dealing with flooding every spring and often fall, they seem to hang on. Some beaver colonies are still in locations I have seen them for yrs.  the hardest impact seems to be a winter flood that cleans the feed beds and traps them under the rising ice filling all the air as the water rises .

I’m glad for this article, because I was wondering EXACTLY the same things!

You there, Mike? Should we contact next of kin?

The bee, the wonderful being builders of honey, seems to have been the first animal “domesticated” by man. Art in handling to use their products, care for their illnesses raise them to fight, knowledge of beekeeping and the union of us involved in it, is the main reason for my job.

The Manomet Center is a disgrace to science.  Suggesting that Biomass is as bad as coal or worse is patently stupid and completely unjustifiable.  What people fail to understand is harvest occur every day and hundreds of thousands if not millions of tons of wood waste is left to simply rot on the ground.  That wood will release its carbon.  Because of idiots like those at Manomet, selling ideology instead of science, we have no market for that waste wood.  We should be paying loggers to collect it and deliver it to Biomass Plants for fuel.  This would support the forest industry and allow it to thrive and provide quality jobs to bright young professionals who can ensure that the forests are properly managed and harvested sustainably. Manomet has only harmed the forest industry and in so doing has put forests in jeopardy, not saved them.

I have these birch polypores I found at the lake from birch trees and I’ve heard that they can be medicinal. I want to use them as a daily tonic but I’m not sure (of these old ones I found) can be of use for anything. I’d be interested if you have additional information on these.
I was initially looking for chaga mushrooms, but found these instead.
Thanks

I hung one up today; it doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.  The tree was leaning in an opposite way I intended for it to fall and landed against another tree in the wrong direction.  Headed back tomorrow up Griffin Creek with a come-along to encourage it to fall without killing me.  If it was a buckskin larch it would be an anticipated trip rather than an obligation.  However, since it is a lesser tree, it’s an obligation to just get it down.  If it doesn’t kick out and kill me, I’ll be in touch.

I found one this morning it was blueish white and about 3 inches long, is this the same species that you found?