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This brings back memories. I started flying with Northern Wings shortly after I moved to Vermont in 2001. I met Bob Keller a couple times through that organization. I dropped out when Northern Wings merged with LightHawk. However, I still fly for various environmental causes. I used to do a lot of donor familiarization flights for Vermont Land Trust, and also flew their team around on a lot of easement monitoring flights, but that seems to have tapered off a lot in recent years (the advent of better and more up-to-date, publicly available aerial imagery has cut into my flights a good bit.

Bob Keller, if you see this, Hello, and I’m glad to see you are still involved.

I so look forward to visiting your museum - hopefully by next summer that will be possible.

I have visited this wonderful museum on several occasions from the mid 1950s through the 1980s.  I conducted a summer enrichment course through the ‘80s for the SUNY Plattsburgh Upward Bound program on Adirondack/Champlain Valley history and culture.  The Six Nations Museum was a must visit for my students.  Both Ray and John would give wonderful presentations, and capture the students’ interests.  May the museum exist for generations to come.

Grateful to learn more of your people.

Luckily, our backyard woodchuck likes the grasses, greens, and clover more than our vegetables.

I’ve observed only Voles in our unfenced vegetable garden.

Any ideas on how to keep Voles out of raised beds?

Dear Michael,

I am plagued by tunneling pest in my vegetable garden. I assume the Voles are eating my plants. I thought hardware cloth under my raised beds would work, but it didn’t. Any idea how high Voles can jump? Thanks for this article. Len

Such an interesting article Tiffany..this past summer we had a water hole with cattails and green frogs up on our land ...and so many dragonflies all colors shapes and sizes ..so much fun grandchildren had watching them dart around ...thank you for the enlightenment on them I shall share this !

I live in the country with a large wooded area 15ft from my garden. We have a lot of voles, moles, rabbits,raccoons, groundhogs, deer and turkey. I want to keep in particular the voles and rabbits out of my newly made garden.I have read to dig a hole two inches down from the soil level and put 3 ft of 1/2 inch hardware cloth bent 2 inches perpendicular at the bottom, and this would keep the voles and rabbits out. do you think this would work? My bed is 16ft square.

Article was very interesting and informative for me.  Thank you! For number of years I’ve wondered why the Blue Jays don’t show up here until the fall but in such large numbers. I have about 20 of them in front of my house in the fall and winter eating the acorns from our oak tree. They are aggressive but I think they are a pretty bird as well. It’s nice to have this awareness.

Professor Haskell,
Recent observations of the architecture,variable annual growth on branches and leaders and number of branches per whorl on Balsam Fir regeneration led me to the conclusion that there had to be some communication between parts of the seedlings, to maintain the optimum allocation of resources in variable light conditions. Your well written research findings made my day.

Sincerely, Jim Saunders, Professional Forester

Since I read Norwegian Wood, I’m hooked.  Wood stove install is 8-12 weeks away, but I’ve hand-split 2-3 cords in the back yards ranging from 18 months to 18 hours of seasoning.  The anticipation is excruciating.  Good read.

The fact that we (nonnative) Europeans have neglected to teach our children the true nature of the atrocities we have visited upon the indigenous people of North America, among others, is truly among America’s greatest lies. Right up there with Slavery!

There is a truth that our children need to know.

Alaska has many wild turkeys, people hunt them each year. I’ve never seen one myself, but my dad and my grandpa went hunting for them. They did come back with one turkey! It was an amazing experience to watch and it tasted delicious.

What a kind note. Thank you, Douglas.

Water is most dense at 39F so when the surface hits that temperature in late fall, it sinks and displaces the water below it.

Great explanation. I was just wondering about why this happens as I was standing on the dock.

Fascinating and informative - as always.
Thank you and I hope that you’ll continue this wonderful blog.

Thank you for this article. My grandson came inside with these and the image search on google said they were hickory nuts. He said NO, they are not from trees. Once he showed me where he found them and I did some more searches, I found your article. We love science!

Thanks Betsy!

Lucy, I have been reading…

Someone pointed out on FB that there’s an unrelated nematode worm that infests grasshoppers.  It seems that without dissecting, they are hard to tell from horsehair worms.

Now I’m doubly curious to nab a few grasshoppers.

Declan

I served on the Maine Woodland Owners board with Patty for years and came to respect her quiet wisdom. She’s the real deal and we are lucky to have her as State Forester. And she still takes shifts at the Farmington Fire Department.