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Circle No. I4 on Service coupon est chapter of a forest owners; maple producers; or Christmas treegrowers association and then go to meetings to meet other peo- fures ple already in the business. That will at least help you learn what Richard E. Garrett, President 11261 Apulia Road POOR SAP FLOW questions to ask and will bring Lafayette. NY 13084 (315/696-8725) In late March NH maple pro- you endless opportunities to learn Norman E. Richards, 1st Vice President ducers were hoping mild temper- about management services.) 156 W estmi nster Ave. atures following moderate over- Syracuse, NY 13210 (315/472-3696) night freezes would finally get the QUEBEC FORESTS J. Morgan Heussler, 2nd Vice President sap flow going in earnest. Pro- The Quebec minister respon- 900 Porterville Road East Aurora, NY 14052 (716/652-4856) ducers in the Connecticut River sible for forests, Mr. Albert Cote, Valley finished off about 20% of a has introduced a bill designed to Robert M. Sand, Secretary Cotton Hanlon, Inc. normal crop with color holding protect the province's woodland Cayuta, NY 14824 (607/594-3321) light in some locations and drop- reserves, of which about 90% are ping to medium in others. With owned by the Government. Tom Wolfe, Treasurer Box 57, Warners Lake Road the season advancing and expec- Wood quotas would be re- East Berne, NY 12059 tations mounting of a short crop, placed by 25-year forest supply Howard O. Ward, Assistant Treasurer prices were reported to be firm- and management contracts. 240 Owego Street ing. Barrel syrup was then steady Companies would be allowed to Candor, NY 13743 at $22 ...Retail gallons were $30 harvest in proportion to the Donald Colton, Director minimum and ranged to $40. forest's capacity and timber com- 5595 Trinity Avenue -NH Dept. of Agriculture panies would be responsible for Lowville, NY 13367 plating, And yes, cut your stumps reforestation, The new bill also low and parallel with the ground Thomas A. Conklin, Director LOVES IDS DEERE 2040 calls for a 50% increase in timber 10 Artillery Lane surface. I read Wes Suhr's good re- cutting fees. Baldwinsville, NY 13027 And what do I use? My wood- sponse to the small skidder ques- Quebec woodlands cover an Richard J. Fox, Director lot is on a hilly site. Two of my tion, and should like to contrib- area equivalent to France and RD 3, Dresserville Road skid trails have a 20% slope. I love ute from my own experiments Great Britain combined, They Moravia, NY 13118 my rig which can do what I want and research on the use of farm produce 50 million cubic yards of Robert A. Hellman, Director safely and comfortably: a John tractors as woodlot skidders. timber each year, while private P.O.Box 231, Brockport, NY 14420 Deere 2040 (40 hp diesel), While pto horsepower is im- forests there produce about 13 Allen F. Horn, Director equipped as suggested above and portant for the winch, weight and million. 3978 Pompey Center Road with a Farmi JL 330 winch. No Manlius, NY 13104 traction are essential to skidder -Quebec Government House chains, Recently I skidded out a movement. Get a compact, heavy NY City R. Dean Frost, Director 23" DBH, 16' long ash butt log, RD I, Box 80 tractor with four-wheel drive. one end off the ground, up a 13% Whitney Point, NY 13862 Use the largest combination of slope. Bigger equipment will do GAS LEASES William H. Lynch, Jr., Director tires recommended by the manu- more; smaller, less. You can do We are in the process of draw- 100 Whitestone Drive facturer. Put tubes in all tires and Syracuse. NY 13215 good skidding safely with a cus- ing up a contract on our hunting have them all fitted with calcium tomized farm tractor. grounds in PA. How can we ob- Stuart McCarty, Chairman solution. Try your rig without Long Range Planning -Peter Levatich tain the 29 point addendum for a chains first. 4300 East Avenue Brooktondale, NY gas lease mentioned in the Janu- Rochester, NY 14618 You need front weight to lift ary/February Forest Owner? logs in the back. Determine the -Martin Hamsted Harold Petrie, Director maximum front weighting for WHERE TO BEGIN? RD I, Box 117, Parish, NY 13131 Hawthorne, NJ your model (and tires) and con- Our family has some wooded Earl Pfamer, Director struct an equivalent weight of acreage with a variety of trees (Editor's note: Try calling Robert Allen Road, Chaffee, NY 14030 steel and reinforced concrete growing on it, especially black Heppner at 716/326-4701.) Alec C. Proskine, Director shaped as a bumper between the walnut. None of these trees has 9370 Congress Road Trumansburg, NY 14886 front wheels. This will also serve ever been farmed, but I would to bend saplings forward as you like to start. Where does one be- Robert O. Richter, Director RD 3, Box 254A approach them protecting your gin? Should we contact a man- Greene,NY 13778 steering components, agement service? Are there any

Evelyn Stock, Director Seatbelts and rollbars are im- pamphlets or books you might Ike Dixon Road, Camillus, NY 13031 portant. Mount all wheels lateral- suggest? Everyone has to start Lloyd C. Strombeck, Director ly out as far as they will go. Sur- somewhere! 57 Main Street, Owego, NY 13827 vey the underneath of the tractor, -Kevin Woodruff

Wesley E. Suhr, Director Some makes, as John Deere, Wolcott, NY Ranger School, Wanakena, NY 13695 have most controls internalized, others have wires, tubes, levers, (Editor's note: This letter is typi- John Thorington, Director Rt. 2, Skyhigh Road, Tully, NY 13159 filters, etc., hanging out. Slash calof dozens we receivefrom curi- will pry these off unless you pro- ousforest owners, We suggest as Sanford Vreeland, Director 1707 Rush-Henrietta Townline Road tect them with closely fitted steel afirst step that you join the near- Rush. NY 14543 Ruth J. Thoden, Executive Secretary P.O. Box 123 Boonville, NY 13309 (315/942-4593)

May/June 1987 3 added features usually only found in me- chanical winches. It is clutch-operated so the cable free-wheels out fast and easily. The clutch enables smooth and gradual engagement. The operator can, in fact, choose any pull from zero to 6,600 pounds. The winch can be remotely con- trolled and has a drum brake which works also if hydraulic pressure is lost. The winch can be bolted to any machine WOODLOT with hydraulic outlets. Circle number 53 on the Reader Service Coupon.

KIOTI: NEW TRACTOR BRAND The Kioti LB 2204, imported from trees since trees are a woody species Korea, is a 22 hp diesel tractor with a which will be killed. number of design features intended to in- Spike is also available as a wettable crease operating efficiency, improve op- powder. Circle number 51 on the Reader erator comfort, and simplify mainte- Service Coupon. nance. In mid-1987 Kioti will add a 17 hp model to the line-up. The Kioti features front-wheel assist G&S WOOD FIRED and a fuel-efficient, water cooled 3-cy- FURNACE linder, 4-cycle low-vibration diesel en- The G&S Model KC36 hot air fur- gine. It comes with both front and rear nace, a new compact system rated at pto, 3-point, category-I hitch, and wet 800,000 Btu/hour output, is now avail- disk brakes. Under the top-opening hood, able from the G&S Mill Inc. of North- all service points are easy to reach. Op- borough, Massachusetts, a leading manu- tional equipment includes a power steer- facturer of high efficiency, industrial ing kit, front-end loader, and turf tires. wood energy systems. The Model KC36 A division of L.B. Industries of Boise, furnace can be used in woodworking Idaho, Kioti, an American-owned firm, SPIKE HERBICIDE shops, garages, greenhouse facilities, and has been working with representatives of Now you can eliminate brush and other small buildings. Korea's largest producer of agricultural weeds and even multiflora rose that The furnace is sold with firebox, heat equipment for the past three years in this choke fence rows and ditch banks by us- exchanger, fans, motors, temperature joint effort to develop internationally ing Spike 20P, a new herbicide from monitor, thermostat, 10' stack, and competitive products. Circle number 54 Elanco Products Company. Loaded in a clean-out tools. The system can be hand on the Reader Response Card. five-pound self-dispensing container, fired with wood fuel from 0 to 55% mois- Spike 20P is delivered in a measured ture content, or automatically fed with quarter-ounce dose of pellets, enough to wood chips, sawdust, or shavings through kill brush and keep it out of a 22-square- the use of a G&S Automatic Stoker Sys- foot area for three years or longer. tem. Circle number 55 on the Reader Spike pellets are dropped at the base of Service Coupon. the target brush plants, where they move into the soil to kill the plants and to pre- . vent further weed growth. Powerful as Spike is on brush, these pellets work on tiny spots which do not destroy the grass needed to prevent erosion and provide wildlife cover. Spike is not a restricted use pesticide. Livestock can continue to graze in areas NORMET FRONT WINCH where Spike is used according to label di- A new front-mounted forestry winch rections. It is not harmful to people when is now available from Northeast Imple- used as directed and will not corrode me- ment Corp.The Normet EV 300 winch is tal structures. unique because it can pull from any di- Multiflora rose is controlled very effec- rection.This is made possible by a fair tively by Spike, along with briars and lead pulley which permits endless swivel- other woody and herbaceous plants. This ling. This hydraulic winch has several product should not be used near desirable

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HOWARD WARD Time passed. Generations passed. Ward's grandparents came to live in the house. Ward came to live there; he lives there today. "As a boy, I milked 11 cows in that barn," he says, pointing to a neat ONE gray structure, now his garage."I can re- member that." He also remembers his grandfather buying 150 acres of hardwood forest on a 'S hill outside the village in 1920. "I don't actually remember him buying it," says Ward. "I remember the last load of timber they took off." That last truckload, a mix of red oak, sugar maple, and white ash, left the Ward family forest in 1924, when Ward was six years old. Since then, three genera- tions have managed the woodlot and by Rick Marsi kept it producing. Ward bought the land from his father in 1954 and began plant- has quieted many a noisy NYFOA ing Scotch pines for Christmas trees. He's meeting. never stopped planting, although these A daughter had one of her offspring days the tree farm's hillsides are studded baptized on a hillside that overlooks the predominantly with white spruce and woodlot's one-acre pond.Ward's sons Douglas fir. join their father each Thanksgiving for In 1957 Ward supervised his first ma- deer hunting on the land, sleeping in a jor timber harvest, which paid back the sparse cabin at the pond's edge, returning cost of the land. Several years later, there home to the village for turkey dinner. were Christmas trees to cut and replace- Children and grandchildren spend week- ment evergreens to plant. Those original long vacations on the windy hilltop, not evergreens have been replaced two or wishing they were anywhere else. three times by now. "These days we'll go "It's dawned on all of us over the to plant a seedling and find two stumps right next to it," says Ward. That cycle of "The bottom line is you. planting, cutting, and planting again al- lows Ward to sell 700 Christmas trees a You have to know how year. to manage your own In 1970, when the Japanese discov- woodland." ered bowling and learned that the sugar maple makes fine alley wood, Ward had ORMER NYFOA president years," Ward says. "We don't have to another timber sale. He had another Howard Ward tells a revealing go away on vacation. We've got all we small sale in 1980. He may have another story of the ISO-acre woodlot want right here." five years from now. Fhe maintains near his Tioga When Ward was offered "a lot" of Every year the tree farmer thins 10 County village and how perceptions of it money for his woodland parcel several acres of his woodlot, culling unlikely have changed with time. When his child- years ago, the kids who moaned about timber trees, selling them for firewood. ren were school age, Ward remembers, being dragged there as youngsters raised "There's a good market for firewood he would take them from their home in the roof. "They wouldn't hear of selling," these days," he says. "It used to be I the village, drive them to his wooded hill- he says."Funny how things change." would just cut that stuff and let it lie." top four miles away and ask them to help So the father kept his land and made All the while, as trees are being cut on with Christmas trees. There were always the children partners. The job of manag- the woodlot, new ones are growing to re- Christmas trees on the Ward place, ing a woodlot for timber,Christmas trees, place them. Thinning allows remaining hundreds of them that needed shaping in and recreation is an official family under- timber stock to grow faster and straighter. summer and cutting come yuletide. taking these days. That suits Howard Numerous old trees are left to house Inexplicably, the Ward children did Ward just fine. squirrels and feed woodpeckers. Hard- not take to shaping and cutting. "They "It's always been in the family," he wood seedlings are encouraged on the grumbled is about all they did," their fa- says. "Now, perhaps, it always will be." forest floor. ther recalls. It was 1868 when Ward's great grand- If you manage a woodlot properly, Those children are pushing middle age mother set up housekeeping on Owego Ward says, it will perpetuate itself. "De- these days, with kids of their own. "The Street in the village. There was a barn out vise a plan and stick to it," are his words woodlot is special to them now," says back with cows. There was acreage on to wise forest owners. Ward has spread Ward, 68, whose piercing thumb whistle the fertile floodplain that spread flat and this message for decades;

6 Forest Owner As director of the New York State all too infrequent. hear a train whistle down in Flemingville Christmas Tree Growers Association for "You've got to be in it for the enjoy- or the siren from Candor, but that's about six years in the early- to mid-'70s, during ment, for people, for the woods them- it for human sounds." his presidency of NYFOA in 1980-81 selves-not just money," says Ward. There's more, says Ward. There's the and throughout his tenure as manager of "There's all sorts of wildlife on the enjoyment that comes from sharing his his own certified tree farm, Ward has place," he says. "We have squirrels and woodlot and the bounty it provides. steadfastly recommended that forest own- hawks, foxes, and deer. In the winter "You should have seen the tree we cut off ers consult with private and state fore- there is skiing and snowmobiling. The this place for the church one year," he sters in devising a forest management pastor from church comes up to do that says. "It was a Douglas fir, 30 feet tall. plan. quite a bit. And there's swimming, of Before we took it into town, we cut eight "A lot of today's forest owners are in- course, in the pond. Last summer we got feet off the bottom. When it got to the experienced, new to the game," he says. all the grandchildren out on the dock for church, they had to take five more feet off "Well, if you don't know anything, isn't it a picture. to get it through the door. smart to get hold of someone who does?" "It's just a great place to get away, to "That tree looked beautiful inside," For decades Ward has used foresters hear nothing but the birds, frogs, and the says Ward. to mark the 1O-acre stands he thins on his wind. If the wind is just right, you can It came from the family forest. farm each year. By removing cull and weed trees, these selective cuttings im- prove stand rate growth of the more de- sirable timber specimens that remain. Although, he invites guidance from forest professionals, Ward prides himself on keeping abreast of modern forest management techniques and equipment. "Once you start relying totally on fore- sters or the loggers who come to cut on YOUrland, that's when you're in trouble," he says. "The bottom line is you. You have to know how to manage your own woodland." Learning by doing has always been Ward's way. Over the past 15 years, he's hosted three "Woods Walks," arboreal open houses, if you will, in which forestry experts have guided other landowners through the Ward farm, explaining man- agement techniques and strategies that have made it successful. Explore multiple use possibilities for your forest, both timber-related and re- creational; get professional help in plan- HE lady had seen a copy of ning for selective thinning; employ log- Forest Owner magazine and in ging practices that work for wildlife and there, the fact that I designed soil conservation, not against it-these T ponds. She called me and ex- I GOT kinds of strategies have made his farm plained that she had three ponds that work, Ward says. needed work. Could I help? And one more thing, he adds. "Don't She wrote me a letter and in a phone buy 100 acres of woodland expecting to conversation we agreed to meet at her get rich. Woodlot management as a pure- farm on April 11. I would make the PAID, ly financial investment? Forget it," Ward three-hour drive to the Hudson Valley says. "If all you want is to make money, and she would fly from Washington, DC, you'd be better off with market certifi- to Albany and drive down from there. cates or an IRA. Everything went as planned and we ar- "Wood sales pay my school taxes, rived at her house within 15 minutes of TOO! that's about it," he says. each other. those taxes-which were $24 a year After sandwiches she purchased at a through two of the dams because the when Ward bought his woodlot in 1954- local country deli, we started our walk overflow pipes (usually called trickle are $424 a year now. Annual revenues around her ponds. There are three, all tubes) had become plugged and the from firewood and Christmas trees may built by her father in the 1950s and early ponds were about to overflow. appease the tax collector, but they create 60s. Since her father's death 20 years ago, A large swampy area had cut through little profit, Ward says. Hardwood tim- there had been little maintenance. About the middle of her father's large farm and ber sales from the land are profitable but four years ago her brother cut ditches (Continued on page 8)

May/June 1987 7 I GOT PAID, TOO! ... water can flow without rupturing the LANDOWNERS dam. (Continued from page 7) Timberland Forestry 6. Edges of the pond and along the up- Consultants offer the he decided to make it productive by stream side of the dam probably can be building a pond and raising bait fish. The following services: mowed after our work next year, and first pond was immediately behind the two or three times every year to keep house and barn and was a little larger • Woodland appraisals down the growth of reeds and brush. than a half acre. The second, built a few How about growing trees on the dam? • Timber marking and sales years later, was immediately below the No-the roots might extend all the way first and is approximately three-quarters through the dam and form a pathway for • Timber management plans of an acre. the water through the dam. That would The third pond, just below the second, be disastrous to the dam. • 480-A Tax Law planning is a little bigger than two acres and has a What about the fish? They'll end up in very long, semi-circular dam. Water lev- the third pond. I don't believe it will be • Timber stand improvement els of the ponds step down from one to necessary to drain that one. However, we the next in approximately eight feet steps. marking and cutting must make sure the trickle tube works. Water from the first flows into the sec- Fill in the overflow ditch and construct ond from the second to the third, and • Timber inventory an emergency spillway apart from the from the third to a small stream flowing dam. Perhaps the banks of the pond Write or Call: down through the woods toward the could be steepened with a long-reach Robert Synowiez Hudson River. backhoe without having to drain the Professional Forestry Consultants Her father had been farsighted enough pond. to install drain pipes with valves at the If we could drain the third pond, I bottom of the dam of each of the first two would lower the water level enough to ponds. (I didn't find that for the third but work on the pond edges but keep enough I expect it's there.) She said he'd drain the water to keep the fish. first two ponds every two or three years, It was a beautiful, sunshiny day. The figuring it helped them. lady had a merry, bubbly laugh, and I Box 498, W. Beecher Hill Rd. The problem with the ponds? There had a grand time. =Howard Ward. Owego, NY 13827 was heavy growth of reeds around all the 607/687 ·0460 shore lines, and brush and trees on the downstream side of each dam and even NYFOAAWARD some on the upstream side. There is a TOWARD heavy growth of "seaweed" and this is Howard O. Ward of Candor, NY, has 1987 PROFESSIONAL what often blocks the overflow pipes. been awarded the NYFOA Outstanding Some of the big, old trees have had large Service Award for 1987. As a loyal vol- SUPPLY CATALOG branches break off and fall into the first unteer with sincere convictions about his pond. association, Howard has given many Professional What should she do? years of committed service to NYFOA. 1. Find the operating wheels for the The son of a church organist and for- Supplies gate valves in the drain pipes. estry graduate-turned-cattle-dealer, 2. Drain the ponds, upper one first and \5\ Howard is a mechanical engineer special- When? August, when it is driest (This izing in heating, refrigeration, and air assumes that the gate valves will work conditioning. In 1953 he struck up a ~ and will close again when we're ready to forest-owning partnership with 1982 ~"" cl81 refill the ponds.) award winner Lloyd Strombeck and be- --. 3. Clear the dams of brush and trees. gan planting trees. He hasn't quit yet. c" • Loggers 4. Clear the edges of the ponds of the " • Foresters TSI Company Howard is a long-time director and ~ reeds. The reeds won't grow back if we :s. •Contractors 1322 North Avenue past president of NYFO A, a past director ~ can make a sharp cut-off of the edges so • Nurseries Bridgeport, CT 06604 of the NY Christmas Tree Growers As- 8 the water is at least two feet deep at the {; • Environmentalists Phone: (203) 366-1966 sociation, a former county legislator, Ex- ~ (800) 631-9690 edge of the pond. Leaving the ponds dry • Property Owners tension Service and Soil and Water Con- for a month or more may kill the sea- • Tree Farmers servation District officer, and an active weed, and that will certainly chase away • and Others member of the American Society of the muskrats. ------Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Condi- 5. Fill in the ditches cut four years ago, Name _ tioning Engineers. but form an emergency spillway, or over- Previous winners of the award are: flow, off the end of the dam in undis- Company _ Emiel Palmer, Ken Eberley, Helen Var- turbed earth. This should be like a swale, Type of Business _ ian, J. Lewis DuMond, Lloyd Strom- 8 to 10 feet wide, with the bottom at least beck, Evelyn Stock, Dorothy Wert- Address _ one foot below the lowest point of the top heimer, David Hanaburgh, and A.W. of the dam. In a heavy cloudburst, or if City _ Roberts. • the overflow pipe becomes plugged, the State Zip _ NYO 5687 Forest Owner s CHOICE SEEDLINGS [ AWARDS WRITE FOR PRICE LIST .~ "5"- Eccles Nurseries "c the College of Forestry and daughter RIMERSBURG. PA 16248.814/473-6265 00 WILLIAMS WINS FORESTER 370, Ithaca, NY 14851. Allow of Albany. His son, Mark, is a student at Call 315/848-2566. four weeks for delivery.

May/June 1987 9 • ••••Q/r)C,•{II)"••• '11 'WV(J('l\4 •••• CAPTURING YOUR WOODLOT ON "Oh boy! If only I had a camera with me!" The chance woodland en- counter that prompts you to say that could have pro- duced a cover photo for a famous national magazine, The real expense for photography or at least a shot to fill a equipment is in the lens. The prized photo album. While standard lens sold with any very expensive camera equipment may camera is a 50-55 mil- be needed to produce the quality de- limeter (mm). Since you manded by the magazine, moderately- can purchase just a cam- priced gear may be quite adequate for the era body, do so and select album. a more versatile lens, such Name brand manufacturers such as as a zoom lens. A zoom lens Basic equipment for multi- Nikon, Canon, and Olympus, offer excel- has variable magnification. One in the purpose nature photography: lent quality camera. For $150 to $200 range of 70mm to 200mm is close Nikon model FM2 with a 200 you can purchase one of their camera enough to the 55mm to do that job, and millimeter macro f/4 lens. bodies. I recommend that any model you yet give you the opportunity to do some nation cannot guarantee a sharply fo- purchase have both automatic and man- telephoto work. The best for the money, cused photo. Vibration of the equipment ual capability. Today's beginning photo- photographically speaking, is the most af- is the usual cause of fuzzy or blurred graphers seem to be wrapped up in want- fordable lens lending the best sharpness shots. That vibration is caused by the ne- ing total automation of the equipment. in the final photo. glect of tripod use. Although tripods are At first, it may seem nice to need no The best quality lens for your camera not commonly available through your thought in picture taking, but this idea is is one produced by that same camera camera manufacturer, many companies short lived with the realization of its lim- manufacturer. If the zoom lens you're make excellent tripods: Bogen, Silk, and itations. The fact is that out of the mil- shopping for is available with a macro Gitzo. A tripod should always be used if lions of photographs taken, 90% are done function, buy it. A "macro lens" can be possible, in combination with a shutter with automatic camera. But the remain- focused much closer to your subject, and release cable. The shutter release cable al- ing 10% include the great shots that ap- give you a larger subject in the viewfinder lows you to fire a camera without touch- pear in magazines, and these are taken on the film. This lens can still be used as a ing it. This eliminates a vibration source. with manual settings. normal lens for more distant shots. Professionals use these two tools consis- Large telephoto lenses can be expen- tently to produce quality photos. sive and will most certainly be heavier Hand-held photography can be best than most people like. Results you get accomplished with the aid of an elec- with a lens like this can be astonishing tronic flash. The actual duration of a flash though, and worth carrying all that extra is short enough to freeze most motion weight. caused by hand holding. This is particu- After you have acquired cameras and larly true if you choose a flash with mul- the next item should be a tripod. tiple power ratio settings. By dialing Even a high quality camera/lens combi- down the power ratio, you shorten the

10 Forest Owner flash duration. Some models available Author Dick Allyn at play in his camou- can be set at 1/50,000 of a second. With ••• ••<'t "<-, 'J('~ 11' 'Io4vn(') '104 • • • flaged pop-up tent. that speed, your shakes or even your • •••• heartbeat will never affect the photo. In fact, you will be able to stop the wings of a hummingbird. Some excellent flashes are available through your same camera manufacturer. Other companies like Sunpak, Vivitar, and Metz also produce good units. After filling your new camera bag with all this basic equipment, you could easily fill another bag with just a portion of the accessories available to enhance your photography. "Enhance your photogra- phy ... " Be cautious of that advertise- ment. Many of those items are not needed. Film Learn about your basic equipment us- ing slow speed film. Film is rated by its ASA (American Standards Association) number with 25 ASA being a slow speed film and 400 ASA being a fast film. A speed of 100 ASA or slower will produce a pleasing 8xl 0 enlargement. High speed film presents a problem with what is called "increased grain." A "grainy" shot will look fuzzy. Although many people prefer color film, black and white film offers a very inexpensive way to start and polish your technique. Give thought to using slide film. Slides are easier to store, can be enlarged easily to excellent quality prints, and are avail- able in low ASA types. By enlarging only the shots you like, you will greatly reduce your film cost compared to using regular print film. Most films can be found in drug stores and camera stores, with the cheapest film coming from mail order houses. Photo- graphy magazines are filled with mail order establishments just waiting for you some of the finest wildlife shots and early morning or late afternoon light to phone them with VISA card in hand. general out of doors shots are taken in the when most people have free time. Sun- Without a doubt, they will list a price that light has a special pleasant quality to it at any local photo store would find hard to these two times of day. match. What you must remember is that Regardless of the time of day that you dealing over the phone can invite prob- are able to allot towards nature photo- lems. If you walk back into a local cam- graphy, there is always one more major era store with a problem, it may take 30 problem to overcome: finding a nature seconds to find a helpful employee and subject to photograph. In many cases, start to resolve the problem. Try that over wildflowers in your woodlot are not the phone with a mail order house! The along that favorite walking trail. Since camera store will also be a hands-on op- wildlife usually tries to avoid man, you portunity to see what you're buying. will need special procedures to place Weigh this question carefully before de- them in your camera range. Also needed ciding to buy. will be the knowledge to wisely use any Once proper equipment is obtained, photographic equipment ... and all of finding time to use it is a problem we that will be in the next issue of Forest must all face in this busy world. Luckily, Owner. •

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DELAWARE AMERICAN SERVICES INC. WYOPIII'4G Bramley Associates Knight Agency Daniels Agency Taylor Agency Gladstone Agency AGRICULTURIST Marvin & Sholes YAlES Wilson Agency Van Dyke Agency MY WOODLOT INVESTMENT "T har ain't no gold in them thar contemplating alternative investments. hills," my artist father said to by Michael Greason That is an individual decision. our Yankee farmer neighbor. When and ifI buy a really large forest, "Maybe ya ain't dug deep enough more of my cash flow than Merrill Lynch I intend to pass it on to my heirs, not cash yet," was the reply. does. My forestland investment barely it in. It won't grow houses during my ten- That boyhood conversation comes to qualifies as a certified Tree Farm. ure. Its potential for development will mind often lately. My forester associates I sincerely believe forest management not enter my decision. I may well commit have been arguing over forestry econom- pays. That is my bias. I know that due to the land to the forest tax law to save on ics. Their discussion revolves around al- the long-term nature of forestry, some in- taxes and perhaps encourage my heirs to ternative investment opportunities, in- vestments will be reaped by a future continue my management regime. I may ternal rates of return, and the like. I am owner. Today's forestowner must decide not be able to tell them what to do, but I no economist. I never listened to E.F. whether initial land investment costs and can arrange it so that it will cost them to Hutton. My woodworking shop sees property taxes enter the equation when deviate from my sense of good steward- ship. For income tax purposes, I run my woodlot as a business by tracking costs WHERE IN THE SAM HILL IS carefully. Yet, like most forest owners, my prime purpose of ownership is not maximizing investment returns. On my TUG HILL? small tree farm, which is part of my home If you don't have to ask this question, it's probably because you site, I have planted trees I will never live on "The Hill" (for you /latlanders, that's the undeveloped, wild harvest. If I ever have to sell my home, I North Country radiating out from Lowville, New York.) know the house, barns, and pond will de- If you don't have to ask this question, and you do receive I'oresi termine the value of the property, not my Owner, you may wish to consider joining T.H.R.I.I".T., Tug Hill Re- young walnuts. So as an investment, sources Investment For Tomorrow. those trees offer me little or no return, but THRIfT emphasizes good land tive land management techniques I enjoy watching them grow. management practices. It pre- from logging to log markets, and Most forest owners are like me. They sents educational events for maple sugaring to beekeeping. don't buy forestland the way they invest members and non-members, and Most of aILyou'll have the satisfac- in stock. They buy land (or inherit it) for it provides a forum for discussing tion of belonging to a citizen recreation or other personal values. Most the pros and cons of controversial group working for a healthy future. issues affecting Tug Hill farms Whether you are a landowner, enter forest management by chance. and forests. It also generates val- or simply care about the future of Some find forest management provides uable information for its mem- Tug Hill lands, THRIfT is for you. tag-along benefits such as improved wild- bership and the public. life habitat or recreational access, which As a member of THRIfT, you will ~f"flf,f'tS:J r/:~8 ff:» ~r are of great personal value. be an affiliate member ofthe New 8~~~~~[( 0 Multiple benefits of managed forests York Forest Owners Association, set forestry apart from other investments. and receive Forest Owner six ~ 2J.l~~~ It is hard to cross-country ski through a times a year. You'll also receive It's easy to join TI1RIFT. Star[ mutual fund, and a savings account THRIfT's informative newsletter. e,yoying a year of membership doesn't yield.autumn colors. You'll be invited to each THRIfT benefits right away. Complete meeting. and you will receive first- the information below and mail Forest investors make unpredictable hand information about new crea- your check for $10.00 to: decisions. I have a relative who pur- chased several thousand acres of wood------land over 20 years ago. He and his co- THRIFT c/o Ruth Eberley, investors were astute businessmen who 9 Edgewood Drive, Whitesboro, NY13492·1903 owned thriving companies. You would Please take an extra moment to let us know about your interests. think having a professional forester in the I am interested in: 0 flowers,herbs, medicines 0 other livestock family (me) might lead them at least to o forest management 0 beekeeping 0 maple sugaring seek some advice. But no, they swapped o logging techniques 0 sheep farming 0 local history cutting rights for a mere sketch map of o growing berries 0 cattle ranching 0 other _ their tract. The mapmaker has been cut- Name _ ting ever since. No controls. No stump- age payment. Now these partners want a Address _ return on their investment. They want to City State Zip, _ sell their cut-over land and make a profit, L ~ what little there is left. I know of other Tel (home) Tel (work) _ similar situations, so when foresters talk

14 Forest Owner work in spite of the fact that I don't antic- ipate hanging around another 80 years. If it becomes necessary to sell the property, I'll try to find a buyer who values my management investments. Otherwise my woodlot activities will have contributed to the estate. With these basic philosophies, I can charge signifi- cant costs to estate planning and enjoy- ment of recreational, aesthetic, and wild- life benefits that I will derive. In my system any yield that pays management costs is profitable forestry. I don't see how I can lose. One kid left in college. Sell some art or build some furniture, and then it's off to mine "the gold in them thar hills."• Author Greason with his home-rigged John Deere firewood hauler. to me about people owning land as se- rious forest investments, I am bemused. -s- Catskill Forest owners, like other people, re- spond to crisis. Europeans manage forests intensely because they no longer grow wood as fast as they harvest it. The threat Forest of forest decline scares them. Their forests are less diverse than ours and are more 11111111111111 Association vulnerable to problems. The fact that we are growing wood more than twice as fast as we harvest it discourages intensive Annual Meeting June 27 management. And yet our yields today are affected by the activities of people a You are invited to the annual 1985. Also participating will be meeting of the Catskill Forest As- John Herrington, regional direc- century ago. sociation on Saturday, June 27, in tor of the American Forest Coun- When State land was reforested in the Franklin, New York. The meeting cil, Paul Steinfeld, certified '30s, no one would have anticipated will focus on the Tree Farm Pro- tree farmer and past president of yields of over $1,000 per acre at age 50. gram, and will include avisit to the the New York Forest Owners As- Land could then be purchased for less tree farm of Lewis and Mary Du- sociation, and Mike Gersten,chair- than $10 per acre and reforestation costs Mond, the 1986 New York State man of the New York Tree Farm were low. Tree planting was primarily a Tree Farmers of the Year. Committee. make-work function. Crop production This will be an exciting op- Planned for afternoon is the was a secondary benefit. Those lands def- portunity to see first hand the re- tour of the DuMond Tree Farm. initely have proven forestry profitable. sults of exemplary forest manage- The first plantings were complet- ment, and to learn how you can Granted, those responsible did not re- ed in 19l4, and since that time, become a certified tree farmer. the DuMonds have carefully man- ceive the financial rewards, but they must The morning program features aged an impressive variety of soft- have gained great pride as they saw idle the annual meeting. and a dis- wood plantations. Species include land blossoming into stands of trees. cussion titled "The Tree Farm red pine, white pine, scotch pine, I derive that sort of pleasure on my Program: Its Benefits for the For- European larch, Norway spruce, small tree farm and I look forward to the est Owner and Forest Industry." and white cedar. There are also day I buy a larger tract. My view of the Principal speaker Francis (Mike) natural hardwood stands, and larger tract will be the same as of my Demeree was National Outstand- plantations of mixed northern present holding. My goal will be to grow ing Tree Farmer of the Year for hardwoods and red oak. large, high quality sawlogs and veneer. I will not be concerned with defining eco- I ------~For registration, please complete Catskill Forest Association I nomic maturity, but rather will base my I and return the coupon along with Annual Meeting I cutting on biological features. I won't ac- I your check. Saturday, June 27,1987 I count for my initial land purchase costs I Number in party x $lO.OO = MasonicHall, Franklin, New¥ork I because I will consider them a gift to my I I Name _ children. I I I anticipate harvesting firewood and I Addr~s _ I other intermediate products. If there are I I sites on the property that need site prepa- I City State ip I ration and reforestation, I plan to do that L~~!i.!!!~r!~!!s.!!~=.t!?!_~=!!.~~~..v.!!~!~~~J May/June 1987 15 REGIONAL REPORTS

SOUTHERN trimmed and notched for an 8xlO log logs into landscape ties and chewed the shelter that was raffled later in the day. waste slabs into chips. In normal opera- TIER CHAPTER The bandmill can turn out 1,400-1,600 tion, the mill produces some 15,000 Agnes Trick is program director for board feet of lumber in a day with two board feet of ties daily. the Southern Tier Chapter of the New operators. Roberson moves the mill The 600 red pine logs that make up the York Forest Owners Association. Her around the Moravia area to farms and mill's eight-hour diet are drawn largely program for the March meeting was a woodlots, producing lumber cut to order. from the State's pine plantations within a good one, focusing on the maple syrup More logs fed Charlie Tallman's 50 mile distance from the mill. Red pine business. DEC forester Jerry Ketchmor Moelven wood cleaver. Tallman, operat- is one of the few Northern woods that provided instruction on the identification ing from Throop, New York, can pile up take pressure treatment preservatives of maple and similar trees. Lawrence as much as 60 face cords of firewood a well, making it a natural for the now Copeland, a beef farmer at Kirkwood, day with his machine, which cuts and popular ties that terrace yards and gar- NY, told of his experiences as a small (58 splits logs in one operation. A cord of dens and form the steps and walk borders tap) producer, and Phil Comings of Co v- wood was another raffle prize. for homes, parks, and office landscaping. entryville told of his 5,000 tap operation. Hopkins Lumber Mill of Sempronius Cote's Linck machine, controlled by A representative of the H.W. Cook sup- exhibited one-way pallets and other mill one operator with the help of a computer ply company described the supplies and products, and logging contractors A.A. and electric eyes, routes the logs through equipment available and Mr. John Peppe and Bill Millier of Moravia dem- the saws and back for another run to pro- Adams of Smada Farms described his onstrated mechanized logging equipment duce a steady stream of squared cants. maple marketing through Victory Mar- -with the hard-working horses in the Chips stream through the blower to a kets. He is also a major equipment dealer background. chip pile; chips are sold for boiler fuel, and wholesale syrup buyer. Jim Peek of the Department of Envi- dairy cow bedding and garden mulch. The January meeting highlighted pho- ronmental Conservation gave a "short The Cote mill is also equipped with a tography in the forest, a program pre- course" log scaling and grading demon- big bandsaw and resawing equipment. sented by Mr. Frank Benenati. Ms. Chris stration and tagged a few sample logs Cote himself has a reputation as a band- Brothers, director of the Fred Waterman with his grade estimates. Comments from saw wizard, and given the mill's versatil- Conservation Education Center in Apa- the crowd looking over his results proved ity and Cote's ingenuity it can be expect- lachin, NY, presented a talk on how to the best of graders can't please both buy- ed to run on long after the available red attract more wildlife to your property. ers and sellers. pine for ties gives out in 15 years or so. Handout materials would still be avail- A mile from the Lamco site Pierre End product manufacturers were rep- able from the Center. Cote opened his Cote Hardwood Prod- resented at the show by host Lamco and -Robert 0. Richter ucts, Inc. sawmill to awe visitors as his by Lake Como Woodworking Shop. Greene, NY Linck Chipping Canter buzzed red pine Lamco makes many of the clear finish trailers and truck bodies seen in central At the Cayuga Woodsman's Day, timbers CAYUGA were bandmill squared and shaved for as- New York, as well as hay racks, garden WOODSMAN'S DAY sembly into a log shelter. The shelter was carts, and picnic tables. The Lake Como ratlled off. More than 400 attended the company produces custom cabinets, un- Blue skies, near-zero mercury, and field day. finished furniture and cabinet work for mid-winter snow cover cheered the throng of more than 400 visitors and 50 participants at the annual Cayuga Woodsman's Demonstration Day on the grounds of Lamco Manufacturing and Distributing Company in Locke, New York, on February 14. Horses and mules hauled logs from piles in the Lamco lot to Tim Roberson's portable bandsaw mill. The big draft animals, guided by Tom Hewitt of Mora- via, Dierk Terlouw and Bill Tutton of Lansing, and Sara Brown of Homer, were the crowd-pleasers. When they weren't hauling timber, a team hitched to a sleigh toured the woods nearby with loads of children. Roberson's bandmill squared timbers and passed them along to a crew which

16 Forest Owner prefabricated home manufacturers and held prices high, ranging from $30 to $40 stands not recently harvested. The poor will soon have a line of oak outdoor fur- a gallon in Minnesota. According to site was at a higher elevation, had colder niture. Both companies are major con- Vogt, prices will remain high for the fore- average temperatures, wetter soil, less sumers of New York hardwoods. seeable future, and it could take two or black cherry, and lower total stocking. Inside Lamco's big shop exhibitors in- three years before supply catches up to All these variables were fed into the cluded the Boy Scouts, the Moravia Bow- demand for syrup in Minnesota. computer to discover and compare the hunters Club, Civilian Conservation While not as large as producers in ecological and economic consequences Corp Alumni, the Cayuga County Envi- some states, Minnesota's maple syrup of various combinations of management ronmental Management Council, the collectors are just as enthusiastic about alternatives. Using 18 possible scenarios, Department of Environmental Conser- their sugar bush. Those who don't own they came up with five overall results: vation, the Ruffed Grouse Society, the can rent from private landowners, the 1. Management plan chosen deter- Cayuga County Soil and Water Conser- Minnesota Department of Natural Re- mines the timing of income received. The vation District, the Owasco Valley Audu- sources, or the U.S. Forest Service. immediate return plan yielding income bon Society, Don's Gun and Archery, The University of Minnesota annually now, with more income down the road and taxidermist Joe Egri (with a mount- holds short courses for maple syrup pro- on other plans. ed albino deer). ducers. In addition, this year's meeting of 2. No management plan studied de- The day-long program was organized the North American Maple Syrup Coun- pletes the forest floor nitrogen. and staffed by woods professionals from cil will be held in Duluth, Minnesota, 3. The poor site responded to less in- the eastern Finger Lakes area. While next October. tensive plans. many are members of the NYFOA -David Halsey 4. There were some species conversion Cayuga Chapter, the Chapter was not the Minnesota correspondent on the good site. In other words, the 30- sole organizer, but joined with the Mora- year harvest showed an inventory of less via-Locke Chamber of Commerce and desirable species. the Moravia Sesquicentennial Commit- THSMM EXPLAINED 5. "Intensive utilization substitutes for tee as a sponsor. Loggers, sawmillers, TO T.H.R.I.F. T. intensive harvesting." To paraphrase, firewood producers, other woods-based you can make as much money cutting businesses, and recreation groups who Tug Hill, New York, forest owners re- fewer trees if you make better use of the participated saw the event as an oppor- cently found out what THSMM is and trees you do cut. tunity to reach both suppliers (woodlot can do. THSMM stands for Tug Hill The affect of chipping on lime levels owners) and customers. And everybody Stand Management Model, a computer was questioned by THRIFT'S president, had a good time! program developed at Yale University. Don Colton. "If the soil is too acid, the - Tim Williams The preliminary computer model for nitrogen will be locked up and not avail- Moravia, NY Tug Hill forests highlights two typical able for growth," he observed. "Does the Tug Hill sites and examines the affects of computer show what happens to soil different management regimes on the fu- nutrients other than nitrogen?" MINN. MAPLE PRICES ture productivity of those sites. Binkley said no. What a difference a year can make. Clark Binkley and Bruce Larson from Moving to another aspect of manage- The 1986 maple syrup season in Minne- Yale's School of Forestry and Environ- ment, THRIFT member Ken Eberly sota was labeled the worst ever by the mental Studies were on hand at a recent asked, "What if I have an eighteen-inch state's approximately 2,000 commercial THRIFT meeting to explain their re- tree-should I take it or leave it?" and hobby producers. The 1987 season, search findings. THRIFT (Tug Hill Re- "That is a site-specific decision," an- on the other hand, got off to an early start, sources, Investment for Tomorrow) is a swered Binkley. "You must ask how and was still going strong in most of the natural-resource oriented rural develop- soon you expect to harvest again, how state by early April. ment association. healthy is the tree, and will it still be there The key to this year's successful maple The objectives of the Yale research the next time you harvest? Or will wind syrup season was the mild winter weath- team were: to develop alternative man- or disease get it before you do? What er, says Carl Vogt, extension specialist of agement regimes (immediate return, dis- species is the tree? How good is your forest resources at the University of aster limit, and selection harvesting) on market for that species right now? How Minnesota. alternative Tug Hill sites (one rated good, thick is the stand? Will the remaining Daytime temperatures that reached in- one poor), using alternative harvesting trees benefit by that one being taken? Or to the 50s had some trees' sap flowing as techniques (felling with chainsaws, and will that tree become more valuable ifleft early as January, said Vogt. The season yarding with rubber-tired skidders) and and those around it thinned out? How got off to a quick start, but, added Vogt, alternative utilization options (whole tree badly do you need the money now?" the on-again, off-again winter weather chipping, conventional logging, and Yale forestry specialist Larson com- also meant a lot of starts and stops for merchandising-bucking two sawlogs mented that 90-95% of total soil com- producers during February and March. from each stem and chipping non-sawlog paction caused by skidders occurs by the By April 1, the season was over south material). fourth pass of the skidder ," the point be- of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but still in The sites chosen were composites of ing that less total compaction takes place full swing north of the Twin Cities. All in Tug Hill plot inventories done by the on one skid trail used many times rather all, the maple syrup season will be close Forest Service. The good site and poor than many skid trails used a few times. to average for Minnesota, said Vogt. site were comparable in distance from -Bonnie Colton As in the Northeast, short supply has mill, accessibility, etc. Both were mature Lowville NY

May/June 1987 17 TREE farmers, please note: The gov- t .I. ernment is tightening up on the use {';Ir. »>: IT IS NOT of pesticides in forest lands. Next year you may find you cannot ENOUGH use certain pesticides you've been using; That's when the federal Endangered Spe- TO OWN cies Act goes into full effect, affecting Christmas tree growers, in particular. Under that law, if your land is in the A FOREST habitat of any officially listed endangered wildlife-plant or animal-then you can no longer apply a pesticide that harms that wildlife. Before applying any spray with these officially listed ingredients, you are legally bound to call the De- partment of the Interior Fish & Wildlife Service for prior approval: 2,4-D; Ace- phate; Aminocarb; Amitrol; Ammoni- um Sulfamate; Atrazine; Azinphos- The challenge is to nurture it, to ful- Methyl; .Cacodylic Acid; Carbaryl; fill a destiny of beauty, productivity, Dalapon; Dazomet; Dichlobenil; Di- and family pride . .. while turning flubenzuron; Diphenamid; EPIC; Fen- enough dollars over to hang on to it. itrothion; Fosamine Ammonium; Gly- But how? phosate; Hexazinone; Methyl Para- There are no easy answers, only thion; Paraquat; Picloram; Simazine; ideas to ponder by the woodstove. and Trichlorfon. That's what NYFOA is all about: Producers should read labels carefully ideas, family pride in forest manage- for these ingredients to find out where by Jay Richter ment, and sharing of dreams. their use is restricted. Here is a sample Through regular issues of Forest label to be required by the Environ- Owner magazine, frequent seminars mental Protection Agency on pesticides and woodswalks in one another's used in forests: ENDANGERED woodlots, and extended tours to ex- "The use of any pesticide in a manner tend the fellowship and learning in that may kill or otherwise harm an en- foreign lands, members of the New dangered or threatened species or ad- York Forest Owners Association are versely modify their habitat is a violation growing as surely as the trees in their of federal laws. The use of this product is woodlots. controlled to prevent death or harm to SPECIES endangered or threatened species that ·, occur in the following counties or else- ENDANGERED J010. ------where in their range. "Before using this pesticide in the fol- Check your preferred membership option: lowing counties you must first contact the endangered species specialist in the o Regular - $10 0 Family - $15 appropriate regional/field office of the o Contributing - $16-$99 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services (FWS) in- o Supporting - over $100 dicated below. SPRAYS Send checks payable to: "Specific information describing the New York Forest Owners Association locations of areas to be treated must be answer callers' questions on the phone. P.O. Box 123 provided to the FWS. Use of this prod- "We wanted to be able to answer a guy Boonville, NY 13309 uct in the range of endangered species with a small woodlot immediately," he Yes, I'd like to join the New York as described by FWS is prohibited. said. Forest Owners Association and get "Contact FWS field offices at the fol- FWS people will be required to log more out of my woodlands. lowing numbers ... " phone calls inquiring about legal use of In a Washington meeting with top pesticides. If you want a written re- sponse, you'll have to wait a few weeks. Name EPA officials and producer groups, Forest Owner learned that U.S. forests Suggestions or complaints should be Address are home to 53 endangered species. Yet, directed to: Wendy Butler, Office of Pes- ticide Programs, TS 766-C, U.S. & Envi- City forests and rangeland together account for less than 5% of all pesticide use. ronmental Protection Agency, 401 M State/Zip According to EPA's Mike Slimak, the Street SW, Washington DC 20460. Call Fish & Wildlife Service is supposed to her at 703/557-7102. County Phone 5/87

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TOXIC FOG? system, working in various parts of the Toxic fog a heavy threat to forests? country. In 1982, he was named asso- Some agricultural researchers think this ciate chief. Robertson is the 12th person may be the case, but most forestry people to head the Forest Service since it was here doubt it. Dwight Glotfelty of US- established in 1905. DA's vast research complex at Beltsville, A graduate in forestry from the Univer- May 16:American Maple Festival, Croghan, NY. Call Fred Schneider at 315/346-1107 Maryland, sees "a very great potential" sity of Arkansas, he also has an advanced or 315/346-6900. for water-borne organic compounds to degree in public administration from American University in Washington. damage crops and forests. May 16: Bradford County, PA, Forestland Forest decline in parts of the eastern The Forest Service, observed Jim Owners Association woodlot tour: "Thinning U.S. and Western Europe is attributed by Webster, newsletter publisher and former for Objectives." Call Jane Bresee at 717/ some to acid rain. Numerous environ- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, "is the 358-3346. mental scientists, however, believe that only agency in USDA with a powerful acid rain alone doesn't account for all the enough constituency of its own that any May 20: Southern Tier Chapter, NYFOA, damage. Secretary of Agriculture would be hard- meeting, 7:30 p.m., at Farm and Home Cen- "It could be toxic organics," Glotfelty pressed to appoint a political chief." ter, Front St., Binghamton, NY. said. May 30: Wisconsin Maple Festival. Rey- BUDGET AXE Fog research by Glotfelty and James nolds Plant, Aniwa, WI. Seiber of the University of California at Forestry folks here remain optimistic Davis showed high concentration of her- that Congress will reject the Reagan ad- June 27: Annual meeting of Catskill Forest bicides, pesticides, and other chemicals, ministration's plea for a 40% cut in next Association. Focus on national Tree Farm the scientists reported. They say the fog, year's federal budget for state and private Program. Tour of Franklin, NY, forestlands made up of microscopic water droplets, forestry. "But we need to keep careful owned by Louis and Anne Dumond, NY may be among the causes of mysterious watch," warned Neil Sampson of the Tree Farmers of the Year. Call CF A at decline in our forests. American Forestry Association. "These 919/586-3054. The researchers were surprised by modest amounts in the big federal budget July 17-18: Vermont Maplerama, Addison their findings, they reported, which can be easily knocked out when you're County, VT. Call Larry Myott at 802/655- showed concentration of toxic com- not looking." • 4452. pounds much higher than anticipated. Some forests are highly stressed, at high altitudes for example, Larry Wise- man of the American Forest Council told NOKKA Forest Owner. Toxic fog is not viewed, however, as a widespread problem by All Season Farm Loaders foresters. Neither is acid rain, said Wiseman. from Logging ... to Ditching WINDBREAKS Paula Tarnapol, press person at the Society of American Foresters, tells us her organization has a new working group. It's concerned, she said, with windbreak technology, and the conserva- tion benefits of windbreaks. For details, address the Society at 3400 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.

NEW FOREST CHIEF F. Dale Robertson is the name. He's the new chief of the Forest Service, suc- ceeding R. Max Peterson. Robertson was called the "ideal individual" for the job by Agriculture Secretary Dick Lyng. Whether you're loading logs or hay bales or handling lime, gravel, fertil- Forestry people around town agree izer, digging trenches or moving dirt, NOKKA manufactures four differ- with that estimate. ent models of versatile, hardworking, all-season farm implements. All fit "Robertson is a product of the system on a 3-point hitch and require 35 PTO HP and up. and will keep it professional," said Neil U.S.SalesDistributor: Sampson, Executive Vice President of NOKKA Manufactured..bY:IIIIIt'II' the American Forestry Association. Hakmet ltd. "He's also alert to the need for change Nokka- KDneet PO Box 248 40950 Muurame. Finland and has the right goals." Dorion, Quebec The new chief came up through the Dealer inquiries invited 5141455·6101 J7V7J5

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VEN in what many sugarers considered a bad year, Peter Peter Purinton's Purinton of Huntington, Ver- E mont, made 3,200 gallons this spring. He had expected to make be- tween 3,400 and 3,600. Even at times when others are not get- ting any sap run and are not boiling, Purinton seems to have good luck. He TUBING says part of this is due to his location at the edge of the Champlain Valley, where the weather is milder than the surround- ing mountains and hills. But his good output is also due to the way he sugars and to the ideas he uses to TOOL cut time and expense. Perhaps the most impressive of his labor-saving ideas is an invention he came up with 10 years ago, when he was 20, which he calls a Tubing Assembly Tool. When Purinton started sugaring, he did it on a shares basis with Gene and Peter Purinton and his prototype tubing assembly tool. Nellie Jaques of Huntington. He'd do the outdoor work and split the syrup with the Jaques 50-50. At the time, the Jaques by Deborah Straw were using buckets, but Purinton sug- gested tubing to increase the number of larges the ends of the tubing so that inser- taps. And if they did that, Purinton knew tion of the fitting is easier. he had to make some changes to save Next, Purinton places the fitting man- time and labor. ually between the two jaws, pushes an That first year that Purinton helped operating handle on the right of the tool out on the Jaques' operation, there were until the fitting assembly is completed, 3,500 taps; all of the tubing was fitted and then releases the jaws. Assembly manually. His brother, Scott, and three takes about 20 seconds, once you get the The tool that makes tubing assembly a solo others helped him. They laid out the tub- hang of it, he says. performance. ingjust prior to sugaring and, when Peter Purinton thinks that without this tool Maple Sugar Makers Association, which had the time, he worked on his invention each assembly would probably take at has approximately 60 members. at night. least a minute and would involve three "At first, we rented it out for $5 a day "I needed a way of inserting the fitting people. plus a security deposit, but once it was in five-sixteenth inch tubing and a lot of "I keep the top belt tight and when I paid for, we just let people use it by pay- the time the tubing is kind of stiff," he get to a tree I lean into it," he says. ing the two dollars a year membership says. Although this assembly tool will work dues," says Mrs. Williams. What Purinton came up with is a 13 in either cold or warm weather, Purinton "The response has been good. Every- inch by 17 inch rectangular aluminum doesn't recommend doing the job when one really liked the way it has it's per- frame that holds steel mechanisms made the tubing gets cold. formed. You can take it out into the of odds and ends. He had the frame "You shouldn't use it below 10 de- woods and put the drop lines in so welded together at a local body shop. grees," he says. "I've found the best easily." The tool has two steel jaws that hold the temperatures to work with tubing are be- This past January and February Purin- tubing in place. One jaw is stationary, tween 20 and 35 degrees. I've always set ton set out 1,100 new taps. He says in two one is on a slide. mine up at that temperature. more years he will have reached his po- He lays a pair of pruning clippers and "In the summertime the tubing gets tential and run out of trees. Then he the tube fittings in a trough at the back of lax. Below 20 degrees, it's a little too cold won't need to use his invention anymore. the frame, leaving his hands free to work. to be doing it." But for many sugarers setting out new He inserts the tubing into the jaws and Ten years ago, the tool cost Purinton tubing, Peter Purinton's Tubing Assem- clamps them down, then he manually $120 to make. He sells it for $198. bly Tool will continue to save valuable cuts the tubing in two with his shears. A One sugarer who has been impressed time and money. reamer, operated with a lever in the front by Purinton's invention is Lucille Wil- To find out how to contact Mr. Purin- of the frame, is tapered on both ends and liams of Shoreham, Vermont. She is ton, circle number 30 on the Reader Ser- holds the two ends of tubing. This en- former president of the Addison County vice Coupon. •

May/June 1987 21 gadgets. I saw an ad recently for a com- a few hours, he let me put the worms on puter unit that attaches to your rod and his hook and take the fish off if he caught registers a strike. The computer tells you any .. how much the fish weighs, the proper Everyone had a brother back then. amount of drag, and how long the fish You never got to do anything until you fought before it was landed. had watched your brother for awhile. By My earliest experiences came after then it was usually dark. I had three older fishing had become an official sport, but brothers and became a very restless before you had to throw everything back. spectator. In those days ... before spinning reels My brothers got new rods and reels eliminated backlashes ... fishing was a when Iwas just big enough to foul things mixture of sport and work. up. Istill remember the day they bought I could have used one of those com- those fancy glass rods from the local puters the time I caught my brother hardware store. N ancient proverb says, "Give a Kenny's ear with my streamer fly. I The store owner took a hold of each A man a fish and you have fed him for guessed he weighed about 150 pounds, end of the rod and bent it over double to a day. Teach a man to fish, and you have dragged me 50 feet, and fought about 10 show how flexible it was. Then he waved fed him for a lifetime." minutes. I suppose a computer would it around like a bull fighter going in for This is obviously an old proverb, but I have been more accurate. the kill. If the store had been full of bulls suppose the concept is still correct. Kenny taught me how to fish the little they would have all been slaughtered. The sport has changed. Now we have farm ponds where I grew up. He taught We were impressed and bought two bass boats and fish-finders and all sorts of by example. After I watched him cast for rods and two "Green Hornet" bait-cast- ~______ing reels. Green Hornets were the top of

I FREE READER SERVICE COUPON the line at our hardware store. It was the I only kind they had, anyway. I PLEASE SEND ME MORE INFORMATION ON THESE PRODUCTS: Of course, all this fancy equipment I (Please circle your choices) was for my bigger brothers, but I was 101020304 05 06 07 08 0910 11 121314151617181920 watching. I could see myself casting from I 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 one side of the pond to the other and I yanking out those bass like they write I 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 about in the magazines ... the ones that I 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 look like milk cans on the bottom of the I 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 lake. I But you didn't just go out and start I fishing with those bait-casting reels. It II Name Iam a: took some practice in the backyard to age a. 0 Christmas tree grower learn how hard you needed to cast to I b. 0 Firewood producer clear the milkhouse roof and how much I Address C. 0 Firewood user spool tension would cut down the back- I d. 0 Maple syrup producer lashes. These reels had more bird's nests I City State Zip e. 0 Timber producer than an Audubon magazine. I f. 0 Country-home owner I became an expert on bird's nests. A : telephone occupation g. 0 Hunter or fisherman slight foul-up would produce a wad of h. 0 Nature enthusiast line looking like the dwelling of a small : acres in use mailing label number i. 0 Gardener wren. Casting to the far side of the pond would produce a structure suitable for a I OPTIONAL: Family income j. 0 Amateur photographer pair of young orioles. 0 less than $20,000 0 $20,000-$39,999 k 0 ATV/ bil I . snowmo 1 e user When a kid gets a backlash like this I 0 $40,000-$99,999 0 $100,000 or more Gross sales from forest activities $ 1. 0 X-country skier with his big brother's reel, he goes I through several predictable stages. First : Others to whom Forest Owner should be sent: there is panic while he tries to untangle it. Name Then, there is the urge to hide it. Last, he I denies it ever happened: "What reel? I Address City State Zip How would I know? The cat probably I_Mail to: Forest~wner ~~710~ e~ Clinton ~=-Ithaca, N~1485~ __ 5/8~ ~_g_o_t_in_to_it_." •...-J 22 Forest Owner WOODCU'I'S sion in 1979 cost $500. The price tag is fenced deer out of test plots and noticed likely more like $700 by now. an obvious improvement in red oak Ralph Sanders wasn't as pleased as regeneration. Henry Williams' game biologists, either. If the legal principle wrested from His car met a swerving truck loaded with royalty in the French Revolution and hot tar. The truck veered to avoid a deer jealously guarded since by American and dumped the scalding load on Ralph. sportsmen holds that deer belong to all Still, former Commissioner Williams the people equally, then all the people ... THE SOVEREIGN'S DEER crowed in his press release, "[The deer even the ones in Manhattan ... ought to Henry Williams won the prestigious herd's] conflicts with man's use of the pay for deer damage. Why should farm- Svend Heiberg Award recently. The land have been minimized." Minimized? ers and forest owners feed the sovereign's award is given by the New York Forest Researchers in Cornell University's deer so that he may hunt freely? Why Owners Association board of directors Department of Natural Resources sur- should motorists be killed and autos each year to a person who has made an veyed New York farmers in 1982 and es- wrecked so that the King and his men outstanding contribution to forestry or a timated that deer damaged $5.5 million might enjoy the chase? related field. The former Commissioner worth of their crops each year. About The cost to farm, forest, and fender of of the New York Department of Envi- half that damage was to com and one- the King's deer is just too high. ronmental Conversation (DEC) seems fifth was to fruit. A 1985 study commis- -Alan Knight, Editor like a nice fellow. I just don't happen to sioned by the NY State Department of agree with his press releases. Agriculture and Markets estimates that Woodcuts is a page of editorial and Press releases are guided missals, the average New York Christmas tree reader opinion. Short essays on topics of aimed typically not at truth but opinion- grower suffers $1,1 00 worth of deer interest toforestland owners may be sub- shaping. Like bureaucratic memos they damage every year. mitted to Forest Owner, 710 West Clin- are written to help the writer, not the Pennsyl vania forestry researchers ton Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. • reader. Any ambitious official is likely to generate them, or to see to it that his staff does, liberally loading them with the boss's name. DEC's Henry Williams was not unusual in that respect. iSUBSCRIBE1 Take the case of a DEC press release I NY, NJ, PA and New England : issued to announce the number of deer I 0 :5years $14 0 2years $11 0 1 year $6 I shot during New York's 1986 hunting I All other areas: 0 1 year $12 I season. The release said 178,713 were shot, the second highest ever, and it gives I 0 rtEW 0 RErtEWAL I Williams credit for saying so. I Frease allow six weeks for delivery. I "The goal of New York's deer popula- I I am a ••••.•••: OMIer 0 operator 0 employee 0 I tion management program is to maintain I JII9»r ••••.••• enterprise ------Size ---- deer numbers at acceptable levels and I provide the people of the state with an I 5/87 excellent return on this valuable re- Name source," says Williams in the press re- ~ol'the. ~ ~/~ lease. "Results of the 1986 season dem- Box. Street or RD. onstrate the effectiveness of New York's 8 •.... program and DEC wildlife biologists are aty State Zip -0 ~ , pleased with the outcome. .c ~ If "DEC wildlife biologists are happy," Since1842 the no. 1 ~ autobody shop owners must be euphoric. Far more than 8,600 deer were killed by motor vehicles in New York in 1986, ac- cording to official records. That number, AMERICAN 14% larger than a year earlier, represents only those deer the unlucky motorists I took home to eat after notifying the po- AGRICULTURIST -I lice. A national Highway Loss Data Insti- P.O.Box516 Ithaca..NY14851 I tute reported that the average deer colli- L ~

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