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What in the Woods is That?

Chipstery

These wood chip piles were observed near each other on a walk in the woods early last winter. Each pile was found at the base of a tree. What made each chip pile?

Twin Teaser

Here’s a tip: Found earlier this summer in Vermont.

Inscrutable Fuzziness

Jan Van Meter recently spotted “two of these white balls with pink nodes” attached to the twigs of a white oak in southern New York.

Rusty Riddle

It’s metal, it’s rusty, and it’s hollow. This is a section of a longer piece found in the woods in southern Vermont. What is it?

Memorial Day Mystery

Red petals decorate the forest floor in Windham County, Vermont, on Memorial Day weekend. What are they?

Nuts-n-Stone

Beech nuts, gravel, emergent vegetation. Where was this strange amalgamation found?

De-Double-Licious

Ellen Snyder stumbled across this in New Hampshire and thought we might appreciate it. We ate it up.

What’s Not For Breakfast

It’s not a waffle, but there is a connection.

An Acronym All Its Own

This week’s WITWIT is more of a WTHHH (What the heck happened here?).

A Handful

Sent along by Mark Heitzman, who found them on his property in Barre, Vermont.

A Cone Lineup

A reader in southern Vermont submitted this collection of seven different cones (not all were found in the forest). Can you ID them all from left to right?

What Happened Here?

Bob Chandler came across this scene on a logging job in Maine.

Speckled Snow

We won’t make you guess how many there are, but we want to know what they are and why they all landed on the ground at the same time in late December? (Penny Harris took this shot in…

Mystery on the Trail

Another strange mark in the snow, which Dicken Crane came across while walking a skid trail.

Signature in Snow

We stumbled upon these strange markings in a thin cover of snow. What created them?

Who Ate What?

Russ Cohen, rivers advocate with the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, took this photo in September in southern Vermont. It seems appropriately colorful and festive for this time of…

Mystifying Maple

What’s so special about this maple log?

Techie Teaser

This picture was taken by board member Richard Carbonetti. Yup, it was taken in the woods. What is it?

An Unidentified Agglomeration

Reader Penny Harris took this picture in her woods in Cambridge, Vermont. What's the black growth?

Dendro at 50

Forestry students might call this "Dendrology at 50 mph." Name the tree species, from left.