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Random Thoughts While Waiting for the Sap to Run
Sugarmakers are all wondering what this extraordinary winter will mean to this year’s maple syrup production. In central New Hampshire, I have historically tapped the trees for my modest hobby operation by President’s Day weekend in February, often enjoying a good run that week. This year, other than a few meager drips echoing on the bottom of my old-school buckets, there hadn’t been a real good run by March 24. Contrast that to a few years ago when spring came so fast that I was all done by March 18.
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- Working Forests
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NHBR--Men at Work: The Rumney Sawmill
February 24, 2015- Tags:
- Working Forests
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Forestry Research: Whole-tree Harvesting
The Open Journal of Forestry published an article last week that examines some of the effects that whole-tree harvesting has on northern hardwood forests.
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- Timber Harvesting,
- Working Forests