By Gary Salmon Warm fires and cozy living rooms complete with a decorated Christmas tree are a part of many of our December lives. We look for just the right tree, not too dense to prevent ornament hanging, but just […]
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After the leaves have fallen
By Gary Salmon Several years ago, Michael Wojtech’s book, “BARK: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast,” came out, which helped in this difficult identification process. Bark is not as consistent as leaves are and changes as the tree […]
Fall views, fresh eyes, new perspective
By Gary Salmon When you are 75 and have seen fall from the same house in the heart of foliage country for 50 years, it can become a little jaded. “Seen it all before” was unfortunately my mantra and same […]
Time is everything in forest restoration
By Gary Salmon The mortality figures are astonishing among the three tree species nearly eliminated from our eastern and Midwestern landscape by either chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica), Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma novo-ulmi), and now emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis). Four […]
The colors of summer: Yellow, white and green
By Gary Salmon June has taken us from the early yellow-green foliage of spring to the more mature dark green canopies that will grace the 6.5 million acres of Vermont’s forest for the remainder of the summer. The goal, of […]
View with a room
By Gary Salmon This has been a cold spring without many consecutive days of similar weather so the first half of March was spent looking at the world around us from the windows surrounding us. The invitation to actually get […]
New life into an old program
By Gary Salmon People have always been interested in “big trees.” That is, those that catch our eye and inspire majesty and curiosity in us. The redwoods of California have been the “must see” trees since our country was settled […]
Good bag and a clear night
By Gary Salmon You know that there is a big difference between waiting for spring and embracing winter. One involves a warm fire, a good book/Netflix, hot chocolate, and windows to the world both inside and out — a certain […]
Looking at the forest from all angles
By Gary Salmon When in a forest, our eyes focus usually on two features: the trees in the vertical scale and to a lesser extent those on the horizontal scale. But some trees fit neither of these and can really […]
Where art thee going?
By Gary Salmon It has been a year since the passage of the new tree warden law and a year to try to interpret which changes are important and which are not. On Nov. 4, the Vermont Urban & Community […]