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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FORE Last week I was cutting some trees down for a member near the house when I almost walked over this little guy recently “dropped” from his mother. Didn’t see the mother nearby, but I’m guessing she’s downwind of me and using her amazing senseContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FORE Last week, I got a chance to burn again at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Burning occurs there to maintain pyrogenic habitat conducive for preserving the Karner blue butterfly. About 30 people were there to burn about 30 acres. Maybe someday, we’ll burn someContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? This hemlock refuses to die. I was out treating some hemlocks for hemlock woolly adelgid and found this cool stump, healing over. This obviously dead hemlock had been cut down a few years back. I assume its roots are grafted to neighboring hemlocks stillContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? One of my favorite flowers is that of flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Some have been devastated from dogwood anthracnose, a disease that has wreaked havoc on this small-statured tree. Many can still be seen lining forest edges in the lower elevations of the Catskills.Continue Reading