ForewordFriday: Seeing the Forest and the Trees Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On August 15th, 2014
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Calculating How Fast Trees and Forests Grow
By Joe Landsberg / On August 11th, 2014
That might sound like a rather dry, technological subject, but it is, obviously, quite important in relation to wood production from forests.
The Great Bark Beetle Experiment
By Richard Waring / On August 5th, 2014
Wood Ducks on a Wild River
By Eric Dinerstein / On April 30th, 2014
Originally published by Village News, a publication of the community of Cabin John, MD.
Wild, undammed rivers make dangerous neighbors.
Wolves in a Tangled Bank
By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
Rants from the Hill: Towering Cell Phone Trees
By Michael Branch / On November 12th, 2013
Rants from the Hill is cross-posted from High Country News
For a couple of years back in the 1970s, when I was a little kid, my family had an artificial Christmas tree that I thought was incredibly cool. It was fun to put together, with a central “trunk” that resembled an oversized broomstick, full of downward-angled holes into which the “branches” were fitted.
Superstorm Facilitates New Forest Growth
By Admin / On February 6th, 2013
Travis Beck, author of the new book Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, recently wrote about one of Hurricane Sandy's more positive effects. Here's an excerpt:
Superstorm Sandy reminds us, however, that humans are not the only ones to fell trees. Her strong winds uprooted or snapped the trunks of over one hundred trees in the Forest. Where these trees fell, gaps now exist in the canopy, creating opportunities for the next generation of trees to grow.
A Call to Save Old Trees
By Admin / On December 10th, 2012
David Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin, authors of several Island Press titles, have just collaborated on an important new study.
Ghost Trees
By Cristina Eisenberg / On July 10th, 2012
The standing dead trees were everywhere, their boles weathered silver where the bark had peeled. The carcasses of their fallen comrades littered the understory, with few aspen sprouting from the deadfall. The occasional mangled saplings we observed provided graphic evidence of heavy elk browsing.
Recently, I explored this stand of ghost trees on Colorado’s High Lonesome Ranch (HLR), accompanied by some of the finest aspen ecologists in North America.
Aldo Leopold and the Mark of the Wolf's Tooth
By Cristina Eisenberg / On August 4th, 2011
In the early 1900s, while cruising timber as a young forester, American conservationist Aldo Leopold, founder of the science of wildlife biology, encountered a female wolf with her pups. The common wisdom of that era was that the only good predator was a dead one, so he and his crew opened fire. But as he stood there watching the “fierce green light” fade in the wolf mother’s eyes, he felt a sharp, surprising pang of remorse. It would take him decades to parse out his feelings about her death.
In 1935, Leopold bought an abandoned farm in southwestern Wisconsin as a hunting reserve.