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A Look at the Season’s Main Events
Virginia Barlow
First Week of Septemeber
Monarch butterflies begin their long southward migration.
If tobacco hornworms are visiting your tomato plants, you may also find pupae of the parasitoid braconid wasps attached to the shriveled hornworms. They look a bit like small, white grains of rice.
Ruffed grouse broods begin to break up. Juveniles may move far away.
Luna moth larvae drop from their feeding trees and search for a suitable place to spin a cocoon in which the pupa will hibernate. Second Week of September
When nights are cold, bumblebees will be found sleeping in flowers the next morning.
Mating season for moose begins and may continue to the first week in October.
The rusty red look of black locust leaves is probably the result of feeding by locust leaf miner larvae earlier in the summer. By now, the adult beetles have entered the litter for the winter.
Coopers hawks are heading south, picking off mourning doves and smaller birds on the way.
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Elise Tillinghast
Cadreact Logging, located in Haverhill, New Hampshire, typically employs a five to six person crew. In 2015, they moved about 5,100 tons of firewood, 6,800 tons of sawlogs, 8,500 tons of pulpwood, and a whopping 13,600 tons of wood chips…
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Northern Woodlands
One of the challenges of wildlife photography is how to depict animals that are active in low light conditions. A good camera offers a number of ways to compensate for darkness, while also raising tricky questions…
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Northern Woodlands Readers
Deer appeared in many of your August photos. In South Trescott, Maine, Nate Rosebrooks documented one month’s antler growth in the same young buck he photographed in July. In New York, at the former Seneca Army Depot, Patricia Liddle discovered a leucistic doe and two normal colored fawns. Your images also revealed mushroom season in full fungal swing, two shelterwood cuts, and a morose lily pad.
We’re now looking for September 2018 photos that relate to northeastern forests. These could be images of people, plants, wildlife, weather, forest management, wood processing, educational activities, recreation, art, landscapes, or events. To submit your photos, please use the form at the bottom of this page. Thank you!
Submission deadline for next gallery: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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Barbara Mackay
The church service was about to begin when some breathless kids pulled me out of my seat to “come see this awesome, pretty, pink-and-yellow, fuzzy baby moth!” on the Sunday school door. It was a rosy maple moth…
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Laurie D. Morrissey
I usually hear the kingfisher before I see it. If I’m reading by the lake, its harsh, rattling call gets my attention. I look up to see the flashy blue-and-white bird fly to a new perch or hover over the water scanning for small fish and crayfish…
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What do these three trees have in common? And can you name each: left, center, right?
Every other week we run a photo of something unusual found in the woods. Guess what it is and you’ll be eligible to win one of our Season’s Main Events Day Calendars. A prize winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries. The correct answer, and the winner’s name, will appear in our next e-newsletter.
This week’s contest deadline is 8:00 AM, Wednesday, September 12, 2018.
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Congratulations to our winner Janny Sterrett! Janny receives one of our Season’s Main Events day calendars.
These ferns were observed recently growing on/near calcareous rock. Do you know what species of fern this is?
NW Answer: Those are Bulblet ferns ( Cystopteris bulbifera). Learn more here.
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Our cup runneth over. Actually, our inbox spilleth over. Either way, we have a lot of interesting news stories that cross our desks. Here were some of our favorites:
NATURE
Dry weather is drawing hungry bears to campsites in the Adirondacks. A new Forest Explorer website feature in New Hampshire, and a look at the “mushrooming internet of trees” in the state. A New Hampshire man is charged with illegally dumping trash in a Maine forest. On a related note, an effort to clean up forests as a way to thank private landowners for allowing public access. A forest made for healing in Maine. A new study on deer winter habitatconservation. Is an invasive plant – and changes in forest ownership – helping ticks to thrive in the Northeast? Why it’s been a banner year for roadkill in our region. Something we could all use a lesson on this year: how forests cope with summer heat. A growing problem: Illegal marijuana farms in national forests. When it comes to carbon storage, biodiversity can help, or hurt. Culture clash: a drone spots an Amazon tribe never before seen by outsiders. How to plant a trillion trees. UPS note explains why a package could not be delivered: “bear in driveway.”
INDUSTRY
Why supporting wood energy means supporting New Hampshire forests, as the biomass bill battle rages on in the state. Making the case for local wood in Vermont. And for the possibility of forest owners selling carbon offsets; betting on these carbon offsets in Maine. The Maine Mass Timber Conference will be held in October. Recalling a massive 1995 blowdown in northern New York, where a wood pellet manufacturer is currently expanding. Young women find their place in Canada’s forest industry. Smoke from California’s wildfires has reached 3,000 miles away to New York. An update on fire safety in cross-laminated timber buildings. A Canadian competition to develop a bio jet fuel. A new study finds that going paperless isn’t necessarily green.
STORIES YOU’VE SHARED
The New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA) 50th Conference will be this September 20-23 at the Greenkill Outdoor Education Center and Retreat in Huguenot, New York. Environmental and outdoor educators will gain valuable professional development through participating in workshops, field trips, networking, exhibits, and demonstrations. It’s also an excellent opportunity to meet your profession’s colleagues face-to-face and learn what is new and exciting in the field. To find out more and to register, visit the NYSOEA Conference Web Page.
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October 12-14, 2018
The Hulbert Outdoor Center, Fairlee, Vermont
Enjoy a fun, informal weekend with the Northern Woodlands crew at Hulbert Outdoor Center on Lake Morey while engaging with writers, scientists, artists, and educators. Natural history presentations, writing workshops, woods walks, and more.
(Use customer code EarlyBird at checkout. Special offer ends August 31.)
Lodge overnight in rustic cabins, attend as a commuter, or come Saturday only. Delicious, family-style meals included. Teacher professional development hours will be awarded.
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 Northern Woodlands Gift Card
Not sure if your friend already has a subscription, whether your pal would prefer a book, tool, or our seasonal calendar? Let them decide. We will mail them gift cards in $25. increments, which they can mail back to us with their selection. $25
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