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Beautifully written piece, Ned, full of the longing that is akin somehow to loyalty. The trees! Oh, the trees!

I found one, or I believe that is what it is in a river that looks like a hotdog in a bun, about 3” long overall.

Hello. I have a sort of silly question: do moose typically bother beavers, or vice versa? Moose, as stated in your article, eat tree vegetation and typically prefer wetlands, but do they, or any other non human animals, bother beaver dams?

Very, very interesting, now I have learned something very pertinent to the season today! I know how to tell them apart now! It will be fun to look for them - thank you so much!

Great article on Marcus Rosten and The Western New York Wildway. Glad to see Northern Woodlands covering western New York. Thanks for all your work Marcus!

The adult beetles also make a clicking/sqeaking sound when they are scared.

Wow!  What stunning photographs!  Many thanks to Northern Woodlands and Brent Haglund for this beautiful article.

Excellent article!!!!!

I recently came across this interview and found it delightfully interesting. I’ve been an avid hiker since the childhood and after hiatus early in marriage returned to it as my path forward. Both of my children have loved it, too, nd it continues with their children into a new generation. I always loved clambering rocks, but finally learned proper techniques out in the Rockies.

What I’m learning is that much of our lives run in parallel. Listing familiar names and places this article brings out is part of my lifeline. I’ve been through East Corinth, love Franconia Ridge, am an author, known struggles, and wondered about Guy and his decision which I understand now much more than before. Thank you for publishing this respectful dialogue.

Years ago I pulled down a used Phoebe nest and saved it in a large jar. Now I see that phobes reuse old nests, so I’m going to put it back for them to reuse, but there’s a new phoebe nest in the old location, full of babies, so I’ll find a good spot for it. I’ll let you know if somebody starts using it.

Nice article! It’s curious that it says the Blackburnian Warbler population is stable. Here in the Maritimes the population is in steep declines, down by about 70% since 1985. The primary cause is loss of habitat due to industrial forestry in the area.

Geology is the basis for why the trout fishing is generally better in VT than NH.  Nutrient-rich green mountain soils produce more fertile streams with more aquatic insect life which translates into a better environment for trout to grow bigger and more numerous more quickly. Geology, and by extension, water pH, also explains why walleyes thrive in some of VT’s waters but - even though NH Fish and Game has tried - walleyes can’t succeed in NH’s waters. Except the CT river, thanks to what Vermont soils are able to contribute to that river.

I’ve seen this three times in my short 80 years. Once as a child in central Wisconsin, in a state park near the shore of Lake Michigan; again, in Maine in the late ‘70’s, near a camp near Beddington Lake, and once again, at my hilltop woodlot camp on Chick Hill in Amherst, Maine sometime in the ‘80’s. On the third occasion, I marked the spot, and the next day looked to see what organism it was. I found a non-descript patch of rotting wood, but no discernible fungus/lichen or anything else. I haven’t seen it again since.

During the 52 years I worked as a forester in Pennsylvania I watched the official policy change from planting a wide range of exotic tree species to only plant species native to eastern North America. At the same time we were losing eastern hemlock over extensive areas along with the suite of species that were dependent on hemlock’s attributes. Officially, red spruce became the substitute for hemlock even though red spruce is confined to a small section of the state and climate change may well further restrict its ability to grow in the state. Norway spruce is the logical substitute since it’s not invasive while it grows well in our habitats. To ignore Norway spruce’s benefits just because it’s not native is to “write off” a host of species dependent on the habitat it can provide.

I grew up on a farm in Iowa. We had thistles. The best sure way to eliminate thistles is to pull them up by the roots before they seed or flower.  You can use leather gloves after you drag the stickers toward the top of the thistle. Sometime a pair of pliers can be used to grab the bottom of the stem next to the ground and pull the thistle out of the ground.  A shovel works to dig up the roots when the ground is not too compacted. Leaving them alone will spread thistles everywhere. Hope this helps.

Thanks for very interesting spider material. We have lots of spiders in strafford.

Some of my favorite childhood memories are moving box turtles away from the road to “save them”. Is there anything people can do to help mitigate their decline?

Great article.

My mom always told me my name was special coming from the Swedish side of my family and being the Swedish national flower. I’d never seen it until I was on a wildflower hike in Oregon and the whole forest floor was Linnea borealis! Not a little waif in that setting!

Hello All,  It’s great to see the results of all your hard work..  Congratulations!
Good luck with the deer…what a pest they are.
If you need more seeds we have quite a seed bank as our organization grows.  Let us know what you’re looking for and we might have it.
We’re working on a webpage but we do have a Facebook page if you’re curious about what we’re doing.
Have a good summer :-)
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Pollinator Pathways NH