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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? This photo was taken years ago in the summer. It includes a doe and her 3 fawns or triplets. I don’t honestly remember the last time I saw a doe with triplets. Triplets become scarce in poor habitat or where a variety of youngContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? On my neighbor’s property is a tall smoothbark hickory tree that stands above the surrounding forest canopy. Climbing to its top offers a great view–east towards the Rondout Valley and Shawangunk Ridge and northwest towards the Catskills. I snapped a photo in late summer–probablyContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? I’ve been hunting once or twice since bow season began, but really just to get my head right & in the mood for killing something & taking it home. Yesterday was the first real hunt. One of those first cold, crisp October mornings whereContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? Dug up these old photos someone sent to me a while ago of Seager Sawmill at the head of Dry Brook in the Town of Hardenburgh, Ulster County from perhaps the early 1900s. I believe one photo shows the mill with Graham/Doubletop Mt. inContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? Fall foliage is underway. I have 2 red maples in my yard that are beginning to turn. I realize we had some bad drought this summer, but we could still be in good position for a nice fall foliage season. We’re looking for cool,Continue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? Sometimes pruning apple trees just isn’t enough, especially on young & vigorous trees. Branches that tend to grow straight up or at a 45-degree angle tend to be more “vegetative” instead of “fruitful.” In other words, branches that grow near horizontal from the trunk,Continue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? My four kids encountered a bear! Don’t worry, they fared well. Ryan Trapani Director of Forest Services Catskill Forest AssociationContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? Seems to be a lot of rust or leaf diseases going around this year. We’re also getting quite a bit of calls about the lack of fruit. For the most part, it seems that the lack of fruit is due to last year’s abundantContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? You’ve heard the saying before, “Nature abhors a vacuum.” In other words, something will always grow in, where something dies. The photo above is something I find all-too-often, especially on State Forest Preserve where huge swaths of hemlock stands are succumbing to hemlock woollyContinue Reading

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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? One thing that keeps me coming to the woods, is that you never know what you might find. The photo doesn’t really do it justice, but I love finding these “rocky rooms” often found in & around cliff faces while going up these mountains.Continue Reading