Lead Article
Marking Timber
We are easy to spot. Look for boots spattered with blue paint.
Blue paint dots our wool hats in the winter and speckles our hair and baseball caps in the summer. In the fall, because the accumulation of paint turns our once brightly colored orange vests into a strange camouflage, some of us tie orange marking tape to our clothes to alert the hunters.
We are foresters. Within the profession we are known as “dirt foresters,” and a great deal of our time in the woods is spent selecting …
Feature Articles
Rust in Peace
“There’s a place called Faraway Meadow
We never shall mow in again,
Or such is the talk at the farmhouse:
The meadow is finished with men.”
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The Root of the Problem
As far as trees are concerned, root damage is the root of all evil. Well, most of it, anyway. No matter what symptoms are visible – early fall color (a sign of stress), sudden death of branches, twig …
The Outside Story
Their Goal: Saving the Butternut Tree
August 27, 2008
Butternut country is so distinctive that Parker Nichols knows he has arrived even before he sees the first butternut tree. As the proprietor of Vermont WildWoods, a flooring and millwork company in Marshfield that specializes in salvaging diseased butternut trees, he’s seen much of Vermont’s …
Editor's Blog
Shrine to Conservation
by Stephen Long
August 21, 2008
Renting the Splitter
by Chuck Wooster
August 14, 2008
Notes from the New Guy
by Dave Mance III
July 18, 2008
From the Archive
Wolves as Neighbors: A Lesson from Transylvania
While Romania is clearly not a part of the territory we normally cover, we believe that the writer’s observations in this article are relevant to the ongoing debate about the role that large …
