The New York Forest Owner - Volume 31 Number 5

THE NEW YORK

FOREST OWNERVOL. 31,NO. 5

OFFICERS & DIRECTORS

Don WallDer , PresidentRD#I,Box203CUtica, NY 13502;(315)733-7391

Wes Subr,!st Vice PresidentRR#I,Box59BOswegatchie,NY 13670; (315) 848-2136

Robert M. Sand. Recording Secretary300ChurchStreetOdessa,NY 14869-9703;(607) 594-2130

Clara Minerd. Treasurer1123CoidSprings RoadLiverpool,NY 13088; (315)451-3712

John C. Marchant, Executive Director45 Cambridge CourtFairport, NY 14450; (716)377-7906

Deborah Gill, AdmlnlstrativeSecretaryP.O.Box 180Fairport,NY 14450;(716)377-6060

1994Norman Rlchards,Syracuse; (315) 472-3696Robert M. Sand.Odessa; (607) 594-2130Charles Mowatt,Savona; (607)583-7006,Kathleen Farnum,Roxbury;

1995Elizabeth Densmore,Machias; (716) 942-6600Richard J. Fox, Moravia; (315) 497-1078John W. Krebs,Honeoye Falls; (716) 624-1793Tom Ellison.Manlius: (315)682·9376 ,

1!»96Albert Brown.Stow; (716)763-9067Verner Hudson,Elbridge; (315)689-3314Peter Levatlch,Brooktondale; (607) 539-7049Don W8&ner,Utica; (315)733-7391

AFF1UA TE REPRESENTATIVESCharles Sprague, THRIFf; (315) 788-S920Dinnle Sloman, Catskill Forest Assoc.; (914) 586-30S4

CHAPTERREP~ENTATTVESMark & Joann Kurtis, Allegheny Foohllls; (71')945-6012Wendell Hatneld. Cayuga; (31S) 497-1398Dennis Colliton, Capital District; (SI8) 89S-2706Bill Minerd, Central New York; (31S) 4S1-37URobert S. Davis, Lower Hudson; (914) 831-3109Wes Suhr, Northern Adirondack; (315) 848-2136Tom Casey, Niagara Frontier; (716) 322-7398Erwin Fullerton, SE Adirondack; (SI8) 747-7230Larry Lepak, Southern Tier; (607) 656-8504Don Schaufler, Tioga, (607) 589-609SEileen Van Wle, Western Finger Lakes; (716) 436-S374

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Table of ContentsPresident's Message ...............•...................................................................................3The American Chestnut - Part 1.........................•, 4A Sprinkling of Public Opinion, Wes Suhr _.__.__.__ __.._ __ 6Forest Resources of Central New York, Norman Richards __. _._8Chapters/Affiliates ....................................................................................................•10Fall Webworm - A Late Bloomer, Douglas C. Allen _.. .__ 12Boundary Law - Part 1, David J. Colligan _ 13NYFOA's Board of Directors ,.....................................................................•14Coltsfoot: A Soft Soothing Step, Dr. Jane Sorensen Lord .. _ _ 18

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGEI'm writing this President's message

while on vacation at my camp on PisecoLake located in the Adirondack's. Did Isay vacation, I mean just a more beautifullocation to continue work activities. Find-ing time to sit down and write this messagehas been difficult, the work never seems toend. On this vacation, the task of finishinga newly constructed dock that I designedand built is high on the list of my priorities,followed very closely by the installation ofa new furnace and TV antenna.

Fortunately, the start of a thunderstorma little while ago gave me the break Ineeded from doing outside work to sitdown and write. As I sit at the kitchen tablein front of a window overlooking the rainfalling on the water and watching the wildducks feeding at the shoreline, I againrealize how wonderful is nature. In myopinion, we don't always take the timenecessary in our busy lives, I know I don't,to sit back and appreciate the beauty andwonder of the world around us._I'm sorry ifl have given you the impres-

sion that my vacation is all work and noplay. As you can see from the insert photo,one of the favorite pastimes my wife and Ienjoy is feeding the wild ducks (believe itor not, they grab me for about 50 pounds ofcracked com a week).

Tomorrow I plan to visit my woodlot tooversee the Timber Stand Improvementproject currently underway on the 45-acrecommercially thinned portion of mywoodlot described in my last message. Thecurren tTSI work in progress is being fundedin part by SIP #3 (Stewardship IncentiveProgram). In addition, five wildlife snagtrees per acre are being created under SIP#8. If you are not already taking advantageof these Federal cost sharing dollars toimprove your woodlot, I strongly encour-age you and other forest owners to do so. Ifyou are interested in seeing my Adirondackwoodlot (an example ofa previously high-graded, unmanaged forest), TIIRIFT hasscheduled a woods walk for October 2,1993, at 10:15 am. It is located in Hamil-ton County in the Town of Hoffmeister, onState Route 8. For specific directions, callme at (315) 733-7391.

The big event this Fall, is NYFOA'sAnnual Fall Meeting scheduled for Sep-tember 25 and 26 at the SUNY-ESF'sHeiberg Forest. The Central New York

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President Don Wagner and Ducks.Photo by Betty Wagner from the new dock.

Chapter has done a lot of work planningand arranging for an interesting and educa-tional meeting. For the first time since Ibecame a member of NYFOA, the FallMeeting is being planned for Saturday andSunday morning instead of the traditionalFriday evening, Saturday schedule. Thenew schedule is being tried in an attempt toencourage more of our members to attend.Quite frankly, I feel attendance at thesevery interesting, educational and socialmeetings is much less than it should orcould be. Less than one hundred membersusually attend the Annual Spring and FallMeetings. This is approximately 6% of

NYFOA's membership. An awful lot ofwork goes into the planning and organiz-ing of these meetings for such a low atten-dance. Please plan on attending the FallMeeting. I know you won't be sorry. Youwill meet many old friends and make manynew ones. Many of the nicest people I haveever known are members of NYFOA andusually attend the Spring and Fall Meet--ings. I hope to meet many members at this .year's Fall Meeting that I haven't had theopportunity to meet before and to spendtime chatting with you. Iwill see you at theHeiberg Forest on September 25 and 26.

Special Membership DriveThe next issue of the NY FOREST OWNER (Nov/Dec 1993,Vol. 31,No.6) willbe mailed to approximately 4000 addresses. This mailing will include complimen-tary copies to 2200 forest owners who are listed as Certified Tree Farms and whoare not currently members of the New York Forest Owners Association.

The cost of this memberhsip drive will be shared by funds provided to NYFOAthrough a Stewardship Grant and funds solicited from New York's forest industriesby the NYS Tree Farm Committee, Frank Rose, Chairman.

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airplane in July when they bloom. As youcan imagine, it is a very difficult project tolocate the trees on the ground once they arespotted. After the trees are located, theyare visited the last week of September tocollect nuts. They are properly stored over

winter to germinate for planting.The NYS Chapter American

Chestnut Foundation Districts arethe same as the NYS DEC Re-gions and each district has itsown program in order to keep thetrees' gene pool as local as pos-sible so when the blight free treeis produced, we will have resis-tant local trees with which topollinate them; thus, producingtrees to reforest the State fromour plantations. Seven of the ninedistricts are filled and only LongIsland and New York City lackDirectors. If you know of anyonein these areas who might be in-terested please have them con-tact us at the address below.

The American chestnut is abiological powerhouse. A veryvaluable fast growing hardwoodthat feeds the birds and animals,makes long lasting fence posts,telephone poles, shingles, and

rail road ties. It was the major hardwood inthe eastern United States prior to its deci-mation. It deserves to be saved.

An education program is being plannedto spread the word of the program to raisetrees, to all of the schools across New YorkState. This will raise the awareness of thepeople and hopefully get them involved.We are a hard hitting dedicated group ofvolunteers who are determined to makeour program work. If you have an interestin assisting us, please contact the NewYork State Chapter American ChestnutFoundation, c/o Buffalo Museum of Sci-ence, 1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo,NY 14211-1293, telephone 716-896-5200,a reply is assured.

Please Don't Forget theAmerican ChestnutBy Herbert F. Darling, Jr.

For more than 90 years the Americanchestnut has been putting forth a valianteffort to survive. The chestnut blight wasone of the worst botanical disasters tostrike in United States history.A lethal fungus was introducedfrom Asia in New York City atthe turn of the 20th Century.Immediately it began to deci-mate our native Americanchestnut trees rapidly spread-ing all across their nationalrange.

In 1934 efforts to save thetree were in full force and by1950 it was realized that allefforts were fruitless and theprogram was abandoned.

The blight could live onother host trees without harm-ing them and spread to anynearby American chestnutwith ease. Even the areas ofMichigan and Wisconsin,known as clean areas, havenow received the fatal disease.There are no safe areas.

It wasn't until 1983 thattheAmerican Chestnut Founda-tion was formed to make another effort tosave the species. The only reason the treestill exists today is its ability to sprout fromthe roots where the fungi cannot existunderground. Were it not for this ability,the species would be almost extinct bynow. The Foundation supports a back-crossing program (hybridization) to breedresistance from the Chinese chestnut intothe American chestnut. It is thought that in20 years, plus or minus, a resistible tree

could be bred.In 1989 the New York State Chapter

was incorporated, the first state chapter inthe U.S. Its program is to use biotechnol-ogy (genetic engineering) to produce ablight free timber type American chestnut

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tree with which to reforest our woodlands.It is felt that eight to ten years is a reason-able goal to accomplish this.

While we are waiting for our resistanttree, we are searching for any live largesurvivors to pollinate for nut production.The American chestnut requires a secondtree to pollinate. This makes the task verydifficult, as finding flowering trees closeenough together for good pollination (300'- 500') is rare. The trees are located by

MORE THAN A MEMORYIN THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE NY FOREST OWNER:TIlE AMERICAN CHESTNUT - PART II; ANDHYPOVIRULENCE, HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC EN-GINEERING, AND THE ROLE OF 1HE AMERICANCHESTNUT FOUNDATION

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GRAPHIC: by June Barzilauskaus fromBulletin 777; Dec. 1978; SandraAnagnostakis; The Connecticut Agricul-tural Experiment Station.

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The Rest of the American Chestnut Story in NY·By Ehzabeth Densmore and a man who burns with the intensity of _When you read about the loss of the his passion fo~ ~is tree. Herb and StanleyAmerican Chestnut through blight and New and Arlene Wirsig founded the N. Y. C~ap-York's hopes of producing a blight resis- ter of the Amencan .Chestnut Foundation,tant tree you are only reading half of the and he has. tapped into the Buffalo 1;1u-story. Herbert Darling, Jr.'s fight to save seum of SCIence as h~dq~er~, meetingthe tree is a lesson in extraordinary stew- ~lace and source of Identification exper-ardship. use,

Since the easiest way to locate the treesis to fly over in July when the bloomingtrees stand out dramatically from otherfoliage, Herb has organized voluntary, pri-vately funded flyovers. He seeks permis-sion to gather nuts from trees located dur-ing flyovers ....no one has ever refused himwhen he explains his mission. He started,and helps maintain, five nurseries in vari-ous parts of the state where dedicatedvolunteers raise seedlings.

Herb does numerous speaking engage-ments each year to spread the word, raisefunds and educate. To listen to him speakabout the American Chestnut is to be in-fected with his enthusiasm to join in the -battle to save the tree. He projects hisexcitement and optimism and makes allthat he has done sound like just the sort ofeveryday thing anyone coulddo certainly! Don't we all do 80 squaremile flyovers all the time? And build monu-mental scaffolds in the middle of a forest?He makes it seem like you kQlllil.

We can all learn from the dedication ofthis NYFOA-Niagara Frontier Chaptermember. Here is a busy man who puts histime, resources and efforts into his unshak-able belief that the Chestnut can be saved.He spends hundreds of hours each year

Herbert F. Darling. Jr .• President/Founder NYS Chapter of the AmericanChestnut Foundation.

Herb remember's his father's storiesabout the great trees that once were part ofthe family acreage, but thought they weregone forever. In 1988 a friend, hunting(with permission) on Herb's property ,found a chestnut 20" dbh and about 85 feettall. He informed Herb of this discoveryand when Herb looked at the awesome,ailing giant he was hooked. Since the treewas already a victim he began to researchways to perhaps contain the blight.

He contacted Dr. Philip Rutter, Presi-dent and Co-Founder of the AmericanChestnut Foundation. Dr. Rutter advisedHerb to try mud-packing the diseased por-tion of the tree. Mudpacking a seriouslyinfected giant of 85 feet would be aninsurmountable problem to most of us;Herb Darling just hauled enough metalscaffolding into the forest to build a re-markable means of access to the tree.While the treatment failed (the tree diedthis year) what ~ accomplished has im-plications that may well be what saves thisspecies.

That single chestnut triggered what mustbe almost an obsession, because Herb in-tends to find the solution. The tree couldnot have found a better champion. Herb isPresident of Herbert F. Darling, Inc. Engi-neering Contractors, Member of the Boardof Directors of the Buffalo Museum ofScience, family man, builder, organizer

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One of the scaffolds employed by HerbDarling in his effort to save the AmericanChestnut.

trying to keep the gene pool alive till thatday when a blight resistant tree will exist.If people and trees are partners in time, theChestnut has found a perfect partner inHerb Darling.

Betty Densmore is a NYFOA Director.member of the Allegheny Foothills Chap-ter and Chairperson of the Editorial Com-mittee.

THE BLIGHTThe American Chestnut tree (Castanea dentata) was a prominent species of its range, 'the East~m Forest, until the blight. The Genus, Castanea is comprised of 13 Species,world-WIde, and all, for the most part, capable of hybridization.'

"The Fungus, Cryphonectria (formerly Endothia) parasitica, enters wounds, grows inand under the bark, and eventually kills the cambium all the way around the twig, branch,or trunk. Everything distal to this "canker" then dies, sprouts are formed, and the processstarts all over again.'?

Evidence suggests the source of the virulent fungus strain to be by imported JapaneseCh~stnut r= iCastanea cre~ata) as transplants, grafts, and/or seeds, and as early as 1876.~I~ species, crenata, ISgenetically protected from the disease and was widely distributed.Chinese chestnut trees (Castanea mollissima) were imported later,"Both Asiatic species are genetically protected and cross-pollination with the American

Chestnut has provided blight-resistant hybrids.

"'Connecticut Hybrid Chestnuts and Their Culture"; R.A. Jaynes &A. H. Graves; Bulletin657; April 1963; The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.2"Chestnuts and The Introduction of Chestnut Blight"; Sandra L. Anagnostakis, NorthernNut Growers. 1993; The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.


They maximize the harvest without dam-aging the forest." (Honest, folks, 1 neversaid a word!)

A Sprinkling of Public OpinionByWes Suhr

For the New York Society of AmericanForester's (NYSAF) winter meeting in Feb-ruary, Gary Goff (Extension Associate &MFO/COVERTS Program Director,Cornell University) asked if 1 would dis-cuss the public's perception of forestry forten minutes. 1 said o.k. and decided tosample the public directly. So the nightbefore this meeting, 1 phoned five peopleand asked for their input.

These people knew me, but 1 neverdiscussed forestry with them. Recognizethey were contacted "out of the blue" toanswer three questions with the require-ment that they be frank, truly reportingtheir bias, and that 1would offer no opin-ion to influence them.

The three questions were:1) What do foresters do?2) Who employs/pays foresters?3) What can foresters do to improveforests/forestry?

The five people contacted were:1) A housewife, who is also a schoolboard member (northernAdirondacks)

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2) An electrician (northern tier ofcounties)3) A NY State Police Trooper, whois also an avid hunter (northern tierof counties)4) A young lawyer, who is also aforest owner (Buffalo area)5) A professional environmentalist(northern Adirondacks).

IThey truly reported their bias ITHE HOUSEWIFEWhat do foresters do?

"A forester is in charge of trees in thecountry; knows what kind(s) are growingand which ones to mark to grow themproperly. The forester fights fires, surveysland ". and reduces tree diseases. A for-ester cuts trees, but does much more ". hasa lot to do."Who employs/pays foresters?

"Mostly the government employs for-esters, the State, and businesses a littlebit."What can foresters do to improveforests?

"Foresters are doing about what theyshould be doing. But tell the 'govern-ment' more about the best way to man-age woodlands and to make more money.Lumber is too expensive - get pricesdown by convincing 'government' thatmore should be cut. Like weeding -it's good for the forest. Tell the 'gov-ernment' to get their nose out of thewoods until they get more input fromknowledgeable people in forestry (for-esters). Educate the 'government' -make them understand that if done prop-erly, cutting is good for the woods!"

(I just had to ask the question, "Who'sthe 'government'?" "TheAPA [AdirondackPark Agency]," was her reply.)

II Educate the 'government' IIShe also went on to say, "Don't cut the

precious commodities -like the sequoias.But you can cut carefully, and have theowls (spotted) too."

THE ELECTRICIANWhat do foresters do?"Foresters manage forests; that is, theymanage the harvest, the trees, and practiceconservation to make paper and lumber.

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They maximize the harvestwithout damaging the forest

Who employs/pays foresters?"Foresters work for government agen-

cies. Lumber and paper companies arerequired by the government to employforesters to regulate their activities."What can foresters do to improveforests?"I think foresters are doing a good job ...cutting helps deer and hunters."

THE NY STATE TROOPERWhat do foresters do?

"Forestry is a technical thing, usingtechnical jargon and ideas. One of theirgreatest tools is knowing the different trees/plants and what their potential is. Theymonitor the forest to know what's goingon; for example, that reforestation is oc-curring and erosion is not, and they takesteps to reduce the injurious insects. Theforester is not the guy with the chainsaw.He's the one who protects the forest fromimprudent logging ". marks what shouldbe cut, leaving the best."

II IIkeep abreast

Who employs/pays foresters?"The State of New York and the countiesemploy foresters. 1 know they educatestudents. They manage State forests. 1knew a forester who worked for an electricand gas company."What canforesters do to improve forests?

"The main thing a forester should do iskeep up with advances made in forestry-keep educating themselves, continue withstudies, keep abreast-just like we have toin law enforcement."

THE YOUNG LAWYERWhat do foresters do?

"Foresters work with landowners tomanage trees by using special skills. Theaverage lay person does not have the time/education to acquire these skills. The for-ester is unique in that he/she possesses avariety of skills, a vertical integration ofskills. They may be frustrated surveyors,


or may select a proper site for a building,or may describe how best to produce maplesyrup,or may improve the quality of woodsby taking the bad stuff out."Who employs/pays foresters?

"The forester works for the landowner,the contracting party. The forester has anobsession with trees ... can grow a goodforest while integrating the landowner'sobjectives."What canforesters do to improve forests?

"I have employed foresters on my ownland, a very positive experience for themost part, except for one consulting firmwhere the forester(s) marked the best forcutting, leaving the worst I also haveknown about foresters tallying volumesdishonestly, working for the benefit of thetimber buyer or logger. Good forestersmark honestly and still accomplish theobjectives of both the landowner and thebuyer. There should be a process wherenew landowners can more easily find agood forester ... it is difficult now.

"Another problem is 'starving forest-ers', especially young foresters, recentgraduates. They often cannot make a liv-ing in forestry, yet there is plenty of poten-tial work for them in the woods. Manylandowners will not put money 'up front'for assumed future benefits because theydon't understand the nature or amount ofthe benefit. There is a real need to educatethe public to the fact that they can makemore money with the forester and stillretain/improve their good forest. I am veryexcited about the promise of the MFO(Master Forest Owner) Program - what itcan do to educate private landowners."

excited about the promiseof the MFO Program

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(Frankly. this person took me by sur-prise. and through very insightful percep-tion. offered useful testimony and recom-mendations. Due to the nature of this re-sponse. it is not categorized by the usualthree questions.)

"Foresters, the SAF, worry more aboutpublic perception ... how the public feelsabout them ... than really doing anythingabout it. Apparently, the profession is notcomfortable with its image. They talk tothemselves more, rather than trying tocorrect the problem. Instead, they shouldbe stressing the good things about theprofession.

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"The perception of environmentalistsin NY State, and I work with many ofthem,is that the profession of forestry is in fairlygood standing. The forest managementregimes for NY forest resources looks goodenvironmentally. Professional foresters,even corporate foresters, are good stew-ards in NY State. Management ofAdirondack Parle wilderness has a compli-mentary relationship with corporate for-estry mainly, because these large proper-ties are being managed as 'open space'.Regional and national environmentalgroups (for example, the Sierra Club andthe Audubon Society) praise InternationalPaper for their gift of 25,000 acres alongthe Raquette River.

professional foresters aregood stewards

"One problem could become a greatdebate in the near future: diameter limitcutting seems to be the norm, rather thanthe exception, on both Non-industrial Pri-vate Forest (NIPF) and corporate forestland. Most professional foresters agreethat it often leads to high-grading. Is short-term economic gain more important thanthe long-term productivity of the forest?

"So, for the most part, the relationshipis good but there are still some great needsto improve the practice of forestry in NY.NY is far behind other states in licensingforesters. Auto mechanics are required tobe licensed, but not foresters.Most of thepublic's negative perception of forestry islinked to bad logging practices where theskills of a professional forester were notemployed. Generally, landowners are notencouraged to hire a forester. Licensingwould be a great benefit to the forester inNY State!

"Another area for improvement dealswith 480A procedures. Local governments(town and school boards) must wait yearsto be reimbursed with the 6% stumpagefee, when the woodland is finally logged.With this loss in tax revenue local govern-ment resists good forest management plan-ning (under 480A).

"There is some public misconceptionabout logging in NY because of some badexamples, seen in the news media from outWest, which 'color' their opinion aboutlogging. There are good examples of log-ging in NY, and there is a great need todemonstrate this forest stewardship to thepublic. There must be more promotion, agreater visibility, of good forestry prac-tice. Demonstrate the practice through ap-propriate and attractive signing when thegood work can be viewed along the travelzone. As an example, good forest practice(managed cutting) is necessary to maintainor enhance biodiversity-demonstrate it!

legislative support for _.NIPF practice.

"Another need is legislative support forforest policy decisions on ' NIPF land. TheEmpire State Forest Products Association(ESFP A) lobbies legislators for support ofgood forest practice on industrial forestlands, but there is no similar support forNIPF land. This is an essential need in the'environmental mix' because of the im-mense amount of NIPF acreage."

a great debate ....diameter limit cutting

Wes Suhr.former Director of the ForestTechnician Program at Wanakena. cur-rently represents the Northern AdirondackChapter and is NYFOA's First VicePresident.

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Forest Resources of Central New YorkBy Norman A. Richards

Biological DiversityCentral New York along with most of

the eastern US, has substantial regrownforest resources. Our local era of extensiveforest depletion was in the past, and wenow have more forest acreage and forestbiomass than at any time in the last 150years. In the interests of landscape diver-sity, I see no strong argument for signifi-cantly more forestland in New York, and Iwould not want the current trend of netincrease in average size and age of ourforest tree stocking to continue indefi-nitely. While I do see many opportunitiesfor qualitative improvements in managingour forest resources, these are mostly mat-ters of socio-economic benefit more thanbiological imperative.

Compared with most "old-world" re-gions, our era of forest depletion was briefand incomplete enough to leave a substan-tial and dispersed plant pool to foster re-growth. Our precultural flora was not ex-tremely rich after only about 10,000 yearsof post-glacial immigration and evolution,and significant climate swings within thatperiod probably slowed directional devel-opment. Although species have been eradi-cated from many specific sites, I do notbelieve we have lost large numbers ofplant species from New York directly dueto human settlement. We can identify somelosses from indirect effects; for example,the nearly complete depletion of Ameri-can chestnut from an introduced disease[see page 4, this issue], and the currentdepletion of hemlock and some other woodyspecies due to our decision to maintainhigh populations of white-tail deer.

Probably several native woodland herbswith fragile niches have been lost locally,and it may take a long time if ever torecover their former ranges. On the otherhand, over the last millennium and espe-cially the last few hundred years, we havegained a great number of now-naturalizedplant species from other parts of this con-tinent as well as from elsewhere in theworld. Many are thriving because of newniches created in new habitats that nowsupport cosmopolitan mixes of native, natu-ralized and hybrid species. It is likely thatcentral New York now has greater totalplant diversity than in the preculturalland-

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scape, and perhaps even in recent geologictime. Whether this is good or not is a humanvalue judgement; but we cannot really "re-store" a previous biotic state if we wantedto.

Net faunal diversity may not have fairedas well in New York over recent centuries.It appears easier to eradicate animals di-rectly through cultural activity; probablyless simple to create new animal niches;and recent chemical impacts have beenmore directly devastating to animals thanto higher plants. Undoubtedly, landscapemicroorganisms have been profoundly im-pacted by cultural activities, but I won'tguess where the losses, gains, and changesstand in balance.

Economics & Social ValuesTurning to economics, I have more

strongly mixed concerns. I am fairly com-fortable with current public ownership offorests in New York. I see no strong argu-ments for significantly more or less publicforest here or elsewhere in the US. I seecontroversy over the management of publicforest lands as a healthy continuing processthat can restrain lopsided bureaucratic di-rections that would be more likely to occurif there were less diverse public opinions.

It is the future social status of our privateforest resources, about 90% of our forest,that concerns me most. Historically, forestshave been relatively extensive-use re-sources, providing several values - wood,water, wildlife, vistas, forest experience -that are poorly competitive in space-pre-cious landscapes. It is a mixed blessing thatour society now places higher total valueson private forestland than ever before, be-cause it is the "highest and best uses" of the

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Fragmentation vs ParcelizationIn contrast to some other parts of the

US and the world where forest fragmenta-tion is a significant continuing process,our regrown forests are now being im-pacted more by parcelization than by frag-mentation. The major difference betweenthese two processes is that fragmentationis a largely biophysical process of break-ing forests into dispersed blocks sepa-rated by non-forest, or in some areas,dispersed blocks of mature forest sepa-rated by young forest. Ownership parcelsmay be large or small under forest fragmen-tation. Parcelization is the subdivision ofland into smaller ownership blocks. Thisintrudes new features and activities intothe forest and changes its character, butdoes not necessarily fragment it in bio-physical terms. Our history shows thatforest fragmentation is substantially re-versible by natural processes over time.Parcelization appears less reversible ex-cept through major socio-economicchanges so it should proceed cautiously.

A critical question is what is gainedand what is lost when regrown forests areparceled into wooded building lots? Thecorollary question is "how small can aforest be?" The answers are not simple.To me, a forest is an "extensive" area notsimply in terms of space-but also in socio-economic terms; it is an area in whichnatural processes generally outweigh cul-tural activities. To the extent we mustdefine size, I think the 50-acre mini-mum set in New York's timber-biasedForest Tax Law is too large, while thelO-acre minimum set by some other states

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may be large enough only if connected toother forestland.

Historically, foresters have dealt mostlywith forest properties composed of severalstands differing in management practices.It is also conceivable for a forest to becomposed of several properties differingin objectives and management. However,in small parcels, residential or recreationalforests are more likely to be viewed asstatic features rather than as dynamic natu-ral processes; partly because we use varia-tion over space to help us picture changeover time.

Forest OwnershipThere is a complex social trade-off be-

tween more people directly experiencingforest values through subdivided owner-ships, and the reduction of extensive forestvalues. In terms of community economics,ten 5-acre houselots in the woods are likelyto generate more economic activitycommunity income and costs - than 50acres of undeveloped woods. But howwould they compare with ten villagehouselots clustered on 5 tree-covered acres,leaving 45 acres of undeveloped woods?

It is easy to say that private forestsshould emphasize the privilege, re-sponsibilities and rewards of forest owner-ship in broader social terms than emphasison financial costs and benefi ts. While thereare individuals demonstrating this admira-bly in practice, our society has not beenvery successful in fostering this attitude ata significant scale. The half million NewYork private forest ownerships, large tosmall, are splintered in their managementattitudes. Environmental groups that in-clude many people not owning forestlandtend to be more united in concern for howothers manage forests. So, most voicedattitudes are strongly polarized, withmore energy going to power-plays thanto seeking pluralistic solutions.

The hopeful sign, or perhaps only vi-sion, I look for, is that enough forest own-ers develop a broader sense of forest stew-ardship to form a more coherent middlevoice between the narrow, simplistic viewsof forest only as a real estate commodityversus only as preserve. This could beaided by specific steps to improve statelegislative attitudes toward our privateforest resources. Legislative initiativeswould include a thorough revamping ofour Forest Tax Law, both to broaden rec-ognition of forest values and to help townsfoster their forest resources; and also by

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Open space and early forest succession in urbanizing rural areas have different valuesto different people. Economically. and ecologically the values are important in the short-term and long-term. Someone changed this real estate advertising sign from "will divide"to "will destroy". Photo by Dave Taber. Extension Associate. Cornell University.

other real estate and taxation changes toreduce parcelization pressures on privateforest lands. This involves our accepting,as a society, costs for the social benefits ofmaintaining the extensive-use values ofour forest resources.

land resources in New York come from hiswork both as a teacher/researcher in ap-plied forest ecology at SUNY-ESF and asa private forest owner for 38 years.

This article originally appeared in theApril/May 1993 issue of Central NewYork Environment Vol. 18. No.2.Norm Richards' views on forest and wild-

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SummerhasbeenexcitingaroundCFA.We have had a SIP meeting/woodswalk atHenry Kernan's forest in South Worcesterand a pruning workshop in Halcottsville.Both events were a success, and if anyonewho could not make them, wishes to re-cei ve a copy of the handouts, give us a call.We will provide more landowner educa-tion programs in the future, after employ-ment of a fulltime education director. Byconcentrating all of CFA's educationalefforts in one comprehensive program wewill be able to provide the Catskills with awide range of natural resource educationalopportunities.

Our next big event will be the CFAAnnual Meeting on September 11. Wehave reserved the Pine Lake Environmen-tal Education Center of Hartwick College.It is located in Davenport, New York, justeast of Oneonta. As with past annual meet-ings, we will provide seminars andwoodswalks in addition to the businessportion of the meeting. Pine Lake is espe-cially well suited for this format since ithas nature trails and acres of woodlands, aswell as a comfortable building for meet-ings and seminars. Lunch will be catered.We hope that all interested forest owners,whether a CFA member or not, will par-ticipate in this year's meeting. Call us ifyou have any questions.

CFA plays several vital roles in theregion, including acting as a referralagency. Presently we work with the listscompiled by the New York Department ofEnvironmental Conservation, but we addour own experience to the process. Frommeetings with foresters and loggers wecan give more accurate direction to land-owners and connect them with forestersand loggers who can provide the mostappropriate and timely service. If you area landowner in the Catskill region CFAmay be able to suggest a few names ofprofessionals. Likewise, if you are a for-ester or a logger and want to work inOtsego, Schoharie, Delaware, Greene,Sullivan or Ulster Counties, please con-tact us so that we may learn of your inter-ests and specialties.

CHAPTER/ AFFILIATESWESTERN FINGER LAKESJuly 14th NYFOA and Tree Farm mem-

bers were treated to an evening woodswalkin Wayne County on Mr. and Mrs. FredWright's property. The Wrights began themanagement of their land in 1966 with thehelp of DEC Forester, Bob Windsor. Atimber sale was completed in 1971 andwith continuous thinning for TSI, they arenow preparing for another commercialsale. There was a large group of people inattendance which delighted the mosquitopopulation. Our thanks to the Wright Fam-ily for their hospitality and DEC Forester,Mark Keister for all of his preparation andhelp.

WFL will host a woodswalk Septem-ber 18th at Dick and Diane Dennison'sproperty. DEC Forester Billy Morris andDick will provide the narrative to accom-pany the tour through pines and hard-woods which are in stages of timberstandimprovement and wildlife habitat promo-tion. If the September weather is coolenough, we will view a scheduled deliveryof Rainbow Trout for the property's pond.The tour starts at lOAM at 6112 CanadiceHill Road in the Honeoye/Canadice area.Feel free to bring a lunch and relax afterthe woodswalk, for information call DaleSchaefer evenings at (716)367-2849.

ALLEGHENY FOOTHILLSOur annual picnic, held this year at AI

Brown's lakeside home in Stow onChautauqua Lake, was a resounding suc-cess with 40+ attendees. It was precededby a woodswalk in the Brown-Gennarinoaward winning forest.

The 1993 APC Outstanding ServiceAward went to Betty Densmore.

Upcoming Events:Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. (Thursday) we will

have a Marsh Reconstruction Tour onMark & Joanne Kurtis' property on WestBranch road in the Town of Rushford. Arepresentative from the U.S. Fish & Wild-life Service will explain the purpose andvalue of marsh reconstruction and give anoverview of this program and its imple-mentation on this property.

Oct. 16 an all day excursion to theLumbermen's Museum in Galeton, Pa..We are chartering a bus for this event andit is being held jointly with the NFC. Costof trip including admission to the museumis $25.00. For more information contactTom Casey at 716-322-7398.

NICE NEWS'Ire NEW YORK STATE FOREST PRACTICE BOARD honored two

NYFONCDC members recently. Willard and Myrna Ives of Haynersville, RensselaerCounty had a tree planted at the Schaghticoke Fair Grounds in recognition of theirservice to the Board and forestry in the state. The location was selected because theIves have been associated with the fair there for over forty years and have staffeda forestry booth for the Forest Practice Board for the past six years.

Some o~ their efforts ~eading to this recognition have included Willard's servingon the Region 4 Board SInce 1977, the State Board since 1982, and as Chair of theState Board two three-year terms starting in 1984. They became the New York andMid-Atlantic Outstanding Tree Farmers in 1984. Their 170 acre property has beenthe host site for legislative and other tours. And they have expanded upon their roleas ~aster Gardeners to help people with woodland and Christmas tree management.WIllard has been the sparkplug behind the Tree Farm/ Forest Practice Board annualArbor Day event of handing out seedlings to legislative members to encourage theirawareness of the values trees offer us., Congratulations Willard and Myrna. Many of us are pleased to have your help.

From the Capital District Chapter Newsletter.


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NORTHERN ADIRONDACKOn June 12, a small group ofNACer's

met at Frank and Lillian Bassett's home totour their pine plantation. Frank retiredfrom DEC a few years ago and is now aconsulting forester in the westernAdirondack country. After learning thehistory of the property, from pioneer farm-ing to the present, members walked thepine-littered, cushiony trails while Frankexplained planting and managing mostlyred and white pine on his sandy soils. Healso outlined the change in species of songbirds due to converting gray birch/shrubcover to the conifers.

Don Brown, Senior Forester with DEC,added a special touch by identifying vari-ous flowers and other ground plants alongthe trails.

SOUTHERN TIERIn late July each chapter member re-

ceived a survey form developed to gatherinput on future chapter programs. Thesurvey results will be summarized andreported at the meeting scheduled for thefirst full week of October,

A picnic/chicken barbeque was heldAugust 14th to celebrate RichardMolyneaux's selection as the number twotree farmer in the northeastern region ofthe US for 1993. Chapter members, to-gether with the Broome County ChristmasTree Growers, members of Dick's churchand family members, all honored Dick. Alengthy woodswalk was needed by all towalk off some of the calories consumed.

John Sherwood wins door prizeat March meeting.

Photo by Larry Lepak.

SOUTHEASTERN ADmONDACKOn a sunny Saturday, July 17, some 28

people enjoyed a tour of Bill Badgley'sTree Farm in Greenwich. This was ar-ranged by Ron Cadieux from DEC Region5 and 1993 winner of Outstanding TreeFarm Inspector for the Northeast Region.During introductions, Mike Greason, As-sociate Forester from the Central Officepresented John Hasting, Sr. Forester fromDEC Region 5, with a Gold Hat for win-ning the NY State Outstanding Tree FarmInspector Award.

The tour provided an excellent exampleof diversified management planning; theroads which remained after the sawlog andfirewood harvest, will allow access forfuture management and recreation. Weobserved the thinning and pruning of a RedPine plantation for future pole sales. Thewildlife management practice showed-astream corridor with apple trees, a pond,and bird houses. Bill demonstrated the useof tractor, winch, and tools to move logs tothe roads. Also we viewed a recently startedXmas Tree Plantation.

After lunch the group went to BarbaraHood's place in Argyle where we dis-cussed the design and building of a newpond and various landscaping options. Weexamined fields planted with Larch andXmas trees and reviewed the challenges ofgrowing seedlings. The tour ended withdelicious refreshments served by Barbaraand her sister and a look at an 170+ year-old restored barn.

Since mid-June, there has been Chapterparticipation in three Fairs, a fourth isscheduled in Washington County.

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THRIFTAfter lunch at the Bassett's, Wes Suhrled the group to his northern hardwoodproperty where they saw results of thin-ning and logging. Future projects underthe SIP (Stewardship Incentive Program)plan were discussed, from establishingscenic timber and recreation trails to im-

On July 17, ten THRIFT members weregiven a tour of the wood chip operation ofthe Lyonsdale Cogeneration Plant atLyonsdale, by Forester Ken Williams.

The wood chip operation feeds a 19KW power plant, which produces steamand electric power. The net electric outputgenerated is purchased by Niagara MohawkPower Corp. at $.06 per KW under a 30-year power purchase agreement; the steamis sold to Burrows Paper Corp. under a 50-year sales contract.

This operation uses between 600 and700 tons of wood chips per day or nearly250,000 tons per year. Most of the woodfuel is supplied by local mills and wholetree chip operators in the forest productindustries.

Approximately 23 to 27 tons of woodash is produced each day. It is stored in alarge steel building and is available tolocal farms and forest land owners, withfree delivery up to 10 miles.

A mobile chipper, with an 800 HP CATengine, costing $385,000., working 12hours a day, six days a week, is the back-bone of the operation which employs 21workers. A huge hydraulic hoist tilts an180,000 pound truck to unload its load in12 to 15 minutes. This operation usesworkers and machinery to its ultimatecapacity.

For THRIFT's schedule of comingevents see page 20, WOODLOT CALEN-DAR.

provement cutting, releasing black cher-ries and spraying fern. At each stop, ob-served changes in song bird populations,after altering the cover, were summarized.

The weather was beautiful and manydifferent subjects were covered with thefive-hour tour. In a "wrap-up" session, allseemed to agree that future woods walksshould couple forestry with other outdoorinterests, as this one did with song birds.

An important organizational meeting isplanned for early September. NAC Staffand key members will meet in Jay, NY todiscuss the future direction ofNAC. Maintopics will include: building an effectiveChapter, inter-relating with other conser-vation/forestry organizations, increasingmembership, selecting staff and chair, andplanning a fall woods walk. ANY mem-bers having ideas for improving NAC,especially building a strong membership,please write or call (collect) Wes Suhr:RRI Box 59 B, Oswegatchie, NY 13670.(315) 848-2136.

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high humidity. Larvae develop faster andsuffer less mortality when the ambientrelative humidity is near 100 percent. Lar-vae complete feeding in October, drop tothe ground and overwinter in the soil be-neath the host. There is one generationeach year in the northeastern United Statesand eastern Canada.

Fall Webwornl - a late bloomerBy Douglas Allen

This native defoliator is one of our mostconspicuous forest and shade tree pests, inpart because of the large silk nest con-structed by each colony, and partly be-cause the damage appears late in the grow-ing season after most leaf feeders havedisappeared. A widespread insect, it feedson more than 200 different plants in theUnited States, including 88 species ofbroadleaved trees. Favored foods vary withgeographic location. In New York, blackcheny is the most frequently attacked host,but tents may occur commonly on alder,apple, beech, birch and oak.

DescriptionThe webbing (Fig. 1) frequently is mis-

taken for nests of eastern tent caterpillar.However, the appearance and habits ofthese two species are quite different. Fallwebworm nests appear in late summer andearly fall, they encompass extensive foli-ated portions of a branch, and the caterpil-lars rarely leave the nest. Eastern tentcaterpillars, on the other hand, initiatefeeding early in the growing season duringor shortly after budbreak, the webbingoccurs in branch crotches devoid of foliage(see article in the Sept./Oct, 1992 issue ofForest Owner), and larvae regularly leavethe nest to feed.

Fig. 1. Fall web worm nest (black arrew.Webworm caterpillars vary from yel-

lowish brown to dark grey and possessseveral tufts of long whitish hairs arisingfrom orange-yellow to black wart-like tu-bercles. When fully grown, the larva is1.5-2.0 inches long (Fig. 2).NY FOREST OWNER

Land Use AndOccurrence of Outbreaks

Fall webworm, known by the scientificname Hyphantria cunea (Hi-fan-triacoonia), is a sun-loving species. Popula-tion density is highest in cleared landswhere vegetation patterns provide bothvertical and lateral exposure of colonies tosunlight. Further evidence indicating thatthe species thrives in openings is the factthat webs are most likely to occur onroadside trees, and they are rare in theinterior of forest stands.

BiologyThe female moth deposits eggs in a

mass on the underside of a leaf during Juneand July, usually near the tip of an exposedbranch. The egg mass is covered withwhite scales from the body of the moth.Young larvae feed only on the upper sur-face of leaves (called "window feeding"because after the insects have fed a brown-ish, thin, translucent layer of leaf tissueremains), but with age larvae may become"whole leaf feeders" (i.e., all parts of theleaf blade are eaten). As the caterpillarsfeed, the webbing is continually enlargedto encompass new foliage. During heavyinfestations an entire tree may be en-shrouded by the webbing activities of sev-eral colonies. Even when populations aresparse, however, the insect is noticeablebecause just one to a few large webs pertree catch the eye. Each web involves amajor portion of the infested branch andmay attain a length of 4 to 6 feet. The mainpurpose of the web, which acts as a green-house, is to provide an environment of

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DamageRarely does the webworm kill trees.

Even when populations are high, outbreaksusually do not last more than-two or threeyears. Also, defoliation occurs late in thegrowing season, after the host has storedadequate food reserves. The principle im-pact in New York is unsightly damage toexposed cherry, such as along highways,edges of fields or on shade trees.

Population ManagementOnly infrequently are control measures

necessary in New York. In areas whereblack cheny is of prime interest and chronicpopulations of webworm exist, a woodlotowner may wish to restrict cheny to theinterior of stands and eliminate roadside orotherwise exposed individuals. Remem-ber, however, that fall webworm is veryunlikely to cause significant defoliation inour region. Also, late summer feeding by afew colonies will have minimal impact ona tree's health. The occurrence of manylarge nests along roadsides or forest edgesusually is not indicative of population abun-dance within an adjacent stand.This article is the tenth in the series ofcontributions by Doug Allen. Professor ofForest Entomology at SUNY. College ofEnvironmental Science and Forestry.


BOUNDARYLAW-PARTIBy David J. Colligan

We as forest owners are often con-fronted with a basic inquiry: where exactlyis my boundary? Usuall y the reason for theinquiry is the occurrence or possible oc-currence of some event which will changethe status quo, such as a sale of the prop-erty, timber harvest, installation of a pondor erection of a building at or near theproperty line. Unfortunately for many ofus, the expense of a survey provided by theseller as in urban property purchases was a"deal killer" which we were willing toforego if it meant paying for it ourselves.Now, long after the transaction closed, aboundary must be located. Where does onebegin?

The first step is to decide what level ofreliability is needed. Often we want toassure ourselves that we are being goodneighbors prior to planning a project. Anopen discussion with the neighbor in ques-tion will often turn up a survey, under-standable deed description, unknownmonument or some other indication ofwhere the line is. It is not always the bestpolicy to give your neighbors the opportu-nity to opine on their view of where the lineis as it will create an immediate conflict if

you don't agree. They may claim thatsome of your best timber that you so care-fully nurtured all these decades is on theirside of the line. When in doubt, consult aprofessional.

Which professional you consult willdepend upon your need. Most forestershave been trained in boundary locationtechniques and can be consulted prior tostarting woodswork such as TSI or a tim-ber harvest. A survey as such can only beprepared by a licensed professional engi-neer or a licensed land surveyor accordingto New York law. Surveys of large acre-ages are costly and time consuming. How-ever, there is no substitute for a survey ifyou are planning a permanent improve-

. ment such as a building or a pond. Also, asingle line sometimes can be staked be-tween two properties on a shared cost basisif an agreeable surveyor can be found. Askyour lawyer for a recommendation of agood, reasonable (time and price) sur-veyor in your area.

This is the first part of a multi-partseries on the boundary laws in New York.Dave is NYFOA's legislative liaison and aBuffalo attorney at law.

Honor RollTwenty-nine new members were recruited by the following:Tom Ellison Dick FoxPeter Marchese Polly FullertonBob Davis John HastingsRed Gramlich Wes SuhrMark Keister CFA - 12Mary McCarty The Woodland Steward 4Marge Devine

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N.Y.F.O.A.Past PresidentAllen F. Horn Has Retired

AI Horn, a Professor at SUNY -CESFwith dual degrees in both Forestry andLaw, has left the Syracuse area early lastmoth. He and his wife Lois have moved toBeaufort, South Carolina. AI has been awilling contributor of both time and exper-tise to benefit NYFOA, serving on manypanels and programs sponsored by thisassociation. A willing volunteer, AI chairedseveral important committees, includingEditorial, Annual Meeting Planning, By-laws, and aiding local arrangements fre-quently.

As President, NYFOA added new di-mensions under his leadership. Member-ship especially increased with a new founddetermination. We wish AI and Lois manyyears of good health and happiness inretirement. One memory will follow them-- 37 winters in Syracuse. Dr. Horn ownedin partnership with Bob Sand, the formerEmiel Palmer Tree Farm in the Town ofPompey, Onondaga County.

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Board ofDirectors Meeting#191 of October

24,1992

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Room 214, MarshallHall State University

of New YorkEnvironmental Scienceand Forestry, Syracuse



The Photographer Charlie Mowatt dur-ing Leadership Workshop of 1992. ArnotForest. Cornell University.

Photo by Bill Minerd

#191, ATTENDING: David Colligan, Mary McCarty, Don Wagner, Norm Richards, Betty Densmore, Dick Fox, Alan Knight, StuMcCarty, Charles Sprague, Kathleen Farnum, Tom Ellison, Peter Childs, Tom Casey, Pat McGlew, John Krebs, Sandy Vreeland, VemHudson, Charlie & Marion Mowatt, Bill Minerd, Debbie Gill, John Marchant and Bob Sand.

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Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting #194 of June 26, 1993 (DRAFT)#194, ATTENDING: Don Wagner, WesSuhr (NAC), Clara Minerd, JohnMarchant, Debbie Gill, Al Brown, PeterLevatich,Nonn Richards, Charlie Mowatt,Betty Densmore, Dick Fox, John Krebs,Tom Ellison, Charles Sprague (THRIFT),Mark & JoAnn Kurtis (AFC), DennisColliton(CDC),BillMinerd(CNY),ErwinFullerton (SAC), Peter Marchese, andR.M. Sand.

OPENING: President Don Wagnercalled the meeting to order at 10 a.m. Heexpressed his appreciation to those inattendance and announced that PatMcGlew, Eileen VanWie, KathleenFarnum, Larry Lepak, and Tom Caseycould not attend.

ITEM I A motion made by Ellison,seconded by Mowatt, approving the Min-utes of the Meeting of January 16, 1993 asdistributed, passed. A second motion madeby Marchant, seconded by Levatich, toapprove as distributed the Minutes ofMeeting of April 24, 1993, passed.

ITEM II John Marchant mailed to theBoard copies of his Executive Directorreport and reviewed it personally with theBoard at the meeting.

ITEM III A motion by Fox, secondedby Richards, approving the proposedN.Y.TREE FARM/E.S.F.P.A. alliancewith NYFOA was accepted unanimouslyby the Board.

A motion by Mowatt, seconded bySuhr, approving a $295.00 NYFOA data-base software purchase, carried unani-mously.

ITEM IV Al Brown reviewed the Wil-liam Burgett proposed gift of 437 acres ofland on the South Branch of CattaraugusCreek. Significant effort by the Allegh-eny Foothills Chapter's officers and keymembers involving networking with theNature Conservancy and the Western N.Y.Land Trust has taken place. Both com-ments and questions from the Board fol-lowed. A motion by Richards, secondedby Levatich, directed the continuation ofchapter discussion with Mr. Burgett andall organizations able to explore a timelyresolution of this unique proposal. Themotion passed 20 to 1. Pres. Wagnerthanked Al Brown for his involvement todate and requested that he continue hisefforts on the Burgett matter.

ITEM V Clara Minerd reviewed cop-ies of the Treasurer's report for the periodJanJ - June 25, 1993 with the Board.

ITEM VI Debbie Gill presented her

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Administrative Secretary's report to theBoard. Membership is 1,594. She expectsto drop 56 delinquent members on July 1.

ITEM VII Editor Wes Suhr reportedthat a Notice Requesting Readers WhoDesired Mailing Continuation of theWOODLAND STEWARD had only 360responses. [7000 mailed] He'll repeat thisagain twice. Mailings will continue unin-terrupted to all NYFOA and TREE FARMaddresses.

ITEM VIII Reports of the followingcommittees were presented:

EDITORIAL- Densmore: All is well.FOREST OWNER- Fox: All is O.K.CHAPTER RELATIONS & DEVELOP-MENT- Mowatt: Introduced PeterMarchese and announced that he is noworganizing a Steuben Chapter of NYFOA.

ITEM IX Bill Minerd and Tom Ellisonreported on the upcoming FALL MEET-ING slated for Sat/Sun, Sept.25-26,1993at the HEIBERG FOREST near TULL Y,NY. The Board approved this schedulingchange from traditional Fri/Sat dates.

ITEM X Bill Minerd distributed hisProgram Evaluation Summary made by 50attendee returns of the Annual NYFOAMeeting (4/24/93). It is a ready source ofmany positive comments and useful sug-gestions for future meetings.

ITEM XI The Board approved April30, 1994 for the 32nd Annual Meeting.

ITEM XII 1993-1994 NYFOA Com-mittee Assignments were reported to theBoard by Pres. Don Wagner. A list ofcurrent telephone numbers of CommitteeMembers is to be distributed as soon aspractical. [see page 16, this issue]

ITEM XIII The following Affiliatesand Chapters reported on activities:

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ITEM XIV OTHER BUSINESS:1. Mark Kurtis reported that MrJohn

Adler, a CHAIN SAW SAFETY expert isavailable to any Chapter or Affiliate will-ing to hire his services; and AFC is plan-ning a session if insurance allows.

2. The Board discussed a request by theNew York State Timber Producers Assoc.to exchange memberships and member-ship mailing lists. The Board disapprovedthis request; but indicated that any NYFOAmember was able to request a copy of theDirectory. Don Wagner would adviseNYSTPA.

3. A motion by Marchant, seconded bySand, authorizing a $200.00 loan to theNiagara Frontier Chapter as a down pay-ment needed by July 1, 1993 for a bus tourcontract, was approved unanimously.

There being no further business to bebrought before the board, a motion byEllison, seconded by Levatich to adjournwas duly passed at 12:23 p.m.

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Switzerland, the Black Forest, and Ba-varia, Sept. 19 thru Oct. 3. Meet fasci-nating people, walk their woodlots, tastetheir ways.

The tour includes visits to privatewoodlands, sawmills, ancient castles,Alpine mountaintops, country towns,and Munich at Oktoberfest.

Y our tour will be full y escorted by anexperienced woodlot-owner tour man-ager and a multi-lingual Swiss guide.Your package price includes airfare,modem tour bus, all admission fees, andmany meals (we've learned over theyears that people prefer not to be tieddown for every meal).

For a detailed brochure, send astamped, self-addressed business sizeenvelope to NYFOA Tours, 96 TargoshRoad, Candor, New York 13743.

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NYFOA - Committee Assignments - 1993/1994EXECUTIVED. Wagner, Chr.C. MinerdI.MarchantC. MowattR. SandW. Suhr

CHAPTER RELATIONS& DEVELOPMENT

C. Mowatt, Chr.R. SlomanT. Casey

MEMBERSHIP

W. Suhr, Chr.I. KrebsR. DavisR. Fox

BUDGET

C. Minerd, Chr.

NOMINATINGP. Levatich, Chr.R. SandE. FullertonE. Vah Wie

AUDIT

R. Sand, Chr.

AWARDS

R. Sand, Chr.V. HudsonN. Richards

EDITORIALB. Densmore, Chr.R. Fox, Ex OfficioA. KnightM. McCarty (716) 381-6373D. Taber (607) 255-2826A. BrownB. Minerd

BY·LAWSExecutive Committee

REGIONAL AFFILIATES

R. SlomanC. Sprague

LONG RANGE PLANNING

A. Brown, Chr.I. KrebsD. WagnerP. LevatichR. SandN. Richards

LEGISLATIVE

D. Colligan, Chr. (716) 832-3611B. MinerdV. Hudson

PUBLICITY/PUBLIC RELATIONS

T. Ellison, Chr.D. CollitonM. Kurtis

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1 • Reference Publications covering awide variety of topics

Examples: Growing Black WalnutAttracting WildlifeGrowing Christmas Trees

2· ServicesLists professional servicea- privateand state foresters by name and county

3 • Timber HarvestorsSorted by Name and work area

4· Prim usersSawmills, Buyers, Etc.Sorted by County

5 • Offices - State-wideDEC OfficesCooperative Extension Offices

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100 YEARS OF FORESTRY IN TRANSITIONThe recent retirement of three foresters

from New York State's Department ofEnvironmental Conservation, each withover 30 years public service on both publicand private lands is a "sign of the times"and a significant clear-cut in theDepartment's Division of Lands and For-ests.

The three foresters are especially promi-nent because of their leadership roles in theNew York Forest Owner's Association.

Robert Demeree, a past Director ofNYFOA and a frequent contributor-to TIffiFOREST OWNER (For Example: The End

of An Era, Nov/Dec 1992,6; Clear-Cut--Myths. Madness and Controversy, Jan!Feb 1991,3) retired an Associate Foresterwhile serving as the Assistant RegionalForester in the Cortland Office respon-sible for six counties of DEC Region 7.Bob intends to manage XMAS trees andwoodlands of his own, and offer servicesand experience as a Consulting Forester.

Richard Garrett, a. part of the"woodswork" in Oswego County for some20 years of his hitch, also leaves the stateservice to enter the private sector as a

Three Networking InitiativesFor the Northeast: the Notheastern Forest Alliance. NEFA, formed in 1986by the State Foresters of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York topromote the northeastern forest and related products. In order to provide aregional economic profile the Alliance has commissioned state summaryreports.

For Northern New York: the Northern Forest Lands Council was formed in1990 from a federal and4-state (ME, NH, VT &NY) initiative in response in1988 to the large scale sales of private forest land and the potential threat totraditional land use patterns. Based upon research of relevant data to definetraditional patterns and extensive public input (NYFOA former Directors,Harold Petrie and Ernst Spencer are members of NY's Citizen AdvisoryCommittee); the Council is charged with identifying causes of "forest landfragmentation and conversion, and recommending strategies to guide futurechanges" which will reinforce "the traditional patterns of land ownership anduses" (Interim Status Report, Feb 1993). A Public Forum of the NorthernForest Lands Council will be held Sept. 16 in Boonville.

And for New York: the Forest Resources Development Council was formedin late 1992and currently has 32members including John Marchant,NYFOA'sExecutive Director. The joint leadership of NYS Department of EconomicDevelopment and NYS DEC suggests a fruitful mix, and according to DaveTaber of Cornell University Cooperative Extension, has already provided 5recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature.

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Consulting Forester. Dick served NYFOAas a Director and was elected to the Officeof President, 1986-1988.

Charles Mowatt, an Associate For-ester, served as an Assistant Regional For-ester, first in Region 9, and then at the Bathoffice in Region 8. Friends assert Charliewill be "working for Marion", his wife andtending his woods. Charlie is currently aNYFOA Director, Class of 1994and Chair-man of the Chapter Relations and Devel-opment Committee.

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Coltsfoot: A Soft Soothing StepBy Dr. Jane Sorensen Lord>-

"You know about herbs, don't you?You're an herbalist?"

Tim Noga of the Cayuga County Fed-eration of Conservation Clubs spoke onthe hoof while exiting the County's Envi-ronmental Management Council Meeting.

I turned to face him, "I'm supposed toknow. I'm a naturopathic doctor. But thereare so many. And each book says differentthings. I try."

"Do you know about Coltsfoot?':"Yes, it's good for sore throats.""No, I mean for wound healing." He

looked at me earnestly. "we use it in piecesdirectly on open cuts to speed up healing.I'm Polish and I think it may be an oldPolish remedy, because I've always knownabout it.

"We tried an experiment sometime ago.A friend had abdominal surgery with a twofoot long surgical wound stapled up; it wasoozing in spots and he was having tochange the bandages all the time. I toldhim about Coltsfoot and he wanted to try it.

We drove around 'til we found a goodpatch, We went home; washed, dried, cutit in strips; laid it across half the scar andbandaged it. We only did half to see if itmade a difference. I saw him the next dayand he had covered the whole thing. Hesaid the Coltsfoot made such a differenceovernight that he didn't want or need totest anymore!" •

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is one ofthe weeds I introduced to my Tree Farm. Infact I collected it on Route 23 in theCatskills on the way to the 1992 AnnualSpring New York Forest Owners meeting!In early spring, from waste, clay soils uppops dime size yellow dandelion type flow-ers on white scaly stems, similar to IndianPipe. They grow in clusters connected byunderground creeping root stock. After a

. few weeks they puff up and blow away andthe leaves come out.

Leaves grow on individual reddishstalks, maybe 10-12" from the ground. Ingood conditions, the leaves grow saucer-size and look like a hoof print from aClydesdale rather than a colt. They aredark green on top and downy greenish-white on the bottom. They feel like fine,thin soft leather that you want to smootherover your cheek (and should).

The fresh flowers or the fresh leaves can

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be used for coughs and sore throat. Simmerone cup of torn crushed plant in two cupsof water. Reduce by half a cup, strain andyou should have one cup of extract. Add acup of sugar, you have cough syrup, twocups, you can make cough drops.

You can dry the leaves and make tea.Or, like Mullein, another preferred plantfor respiratory conditions, you can smokeit to clear up mucous.

Tim's use of Coltsfoot was new to meand short of self mutilation I was rearin' totry it.

After wearing a part polyester suit andblouse for three days ill Washington, DCheat and humidity, my armpits-had a nastyreaction in the form of a raised red, sting-ing rash (bi-Iateral axillary dermatitis).My chance was here! And I could evenexperiment!. I ran out, picked a large Coltsfoot leaf,washed it, patted it dry, then ran over its.center with a meat tenderizer (this piercedit but left the shape --just like an armshield!)-I put hydrocortisone ointment on the right,then put on an old tee shirt. I slid theColtsfoot leaf under my left arm with theunderside next to the skin.

Overnight the Coltsfoot-side improvedobservably more than the other. I repeatedthe same' procedure and by the secondnight the Coltsfoot-side cleared completely.The commercial healing ointment tookthree days!

Thanks Tim! Now I will make a healingoil soI can have Coltsfoot all year 'round.If any of you have unique family

herbal remedies, write to the editor andwe will let others know about these vol-

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unteer plants that lend a rich, diversecultural and historical note to our forestlands.

In addition to representing the Federationbefore the County EMC, Tim Noga repre-sents the Federation of Conservation Clubsof Cayuga County at the NYS Region 7Conservation League where he serves asthe Region's Secretary. The ConservationLeague and other regional groups sendrepresentative to the- NYS ConservationCouncil which advises theNYS DEC Com-missioner on matters of particular concernto sportsmen in New York and provides acadre of volunteers helpful to the missionof DEC' s management and regulation ofFish and Wildlife. The Cayuga Chapter ofNYFOAisa "member club" of the County'sFederation. .

Jane attended the County EMC meetingand a steering committee meeting of theCayuga Chapterfor the loealflavor therebyprovided.

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Global Marketing Gives Tree Farmers New OptionsBy Ron Cadieux

All Tree Farmers know that trees are arenewable resource, but few realize thattheir veneer and high grade sawlogs are adesirable worldwide commodity which isin great demand. Locally, we are blessedto have the particular forest types whichhave drawn global attention. Red oak,white oak, white ash and sugar maple arethe primary species that veneer buyers areconstantly seeking. The big surprise is thatsome veneer buyers will also buy red maple,basswood, and hickory. The economic in-crease in value to the seller is variable butusually ranges up to three to four times theaverage stumpage value of a given indi-vidual species.

So, how do forest owners sell to veneerbuyers? If the forest owner has the abilityto put the logs roadside and communicatewith professional businessmen, there is agood chance of a roadside sale. Roadside-is a term given to the sale of logs which are

close enough to the road to be loaded ontoa truck for hauling. Scaling and grading ofthe logs is usually done in the presence ofthe seller. Loading the logs onto tractortrailers is usually the responsibility of theseller.

What are the advantages of selling road-side? These are many in the long-terminvestment of owning a forest, with thefirst being economic gain. Demand forhigh grade sawlogs have driven up pricesdramatically which are not immediatelyreflected in stumpage prices. Secondly, aforest owner can sell as little as four to fivethousand board feet at a time. The qualityof the logs, not necessarily the volumeharvested, will determine the income re-ceived. Forest owners can schedule lightharvests and maximize their return in acontinued harvesting cycle. They also havethe opportunity to communicate with po-tential veneer buyers and arrange to selltheir logs at a certain time of year when

market prices are higher.In the spring of 1993, the Bureau of

Marketing and Utilization (NYS Dept. ofEnvironmental Conservation) compiled astatewide list of veneer buyers. Local for-est owners who can function as a generalcontractor and would like to utilize a newopportunity for selling their forest prod-ucts can obtain a statewide list of veneerbuyers by calling or writing their localNYS-DEC office,

Interviewing potential buyers and com-paring price and specification sheets willhelp educate sellers before making finaldecisions on selling their forest products.DEC foresters are available for advice onprocedures or scheduling sales.

From SE Adirondack Chapter Newsletter(Jul. 93). Ron Cadieux is aDEC Forester,Region 5. The NY FOREST OWNER in-vites comment or anecdotal experiencefrom the reader.

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I Mohawk's Test Wind Energy Facility;Copenhagen; (315)788-5920Sep 16:THRIFf; 7PM; Northern For-est Lands Council Public Forum;Boonville; (315) 788-5920Sep 18: WFL: lOAM; Woodswalk ofTSI & Pond Stockingt; Honeoye/Canadice Area; (716)367-2849 eve.Sep 18: CDC; 1PM; Pre-managementPlan Woodswalk; Slade Hill Rd.; Al-bany Co.: (518)895-2706.Sep 23: APC; lOAM; Marsh Recon-struction. Tour; M&J Kurtis' property;

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IThia lake on your own property. sidea could become a reality if theright conditions prevail. From ourexperience itnormallyrequiresfavorable watershed conditions,good site conditions, owner-commitment to stewardship forenhancement offorest land values,appropriate engineering planningand design, and good constructionpractices.

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