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In giving an oral account of the trip we took in Italy, the story has grown, shifted and changed. Differently listeners and different times invite different details from our memory, and thus it’s natural that our integration of the experience has continued deepening. Today I got the urge to put together this slide, because narrating…

Recently, I traveled with Chris Smyth to the Italian regions of Sicilia, Piemonte and Lazio. I published these on my private social media account, but have decided to publish the text of the journal on my blog. If you would like pictures of any of the items of these, I am happy to provide these…

There are three topics related to red maple in agroforestry systems that have come up in my consulting practice this year, which I think are useful to share about. One is the successful use of red maple poles for commercial production of shiitake mushrooms. A second topic is the use of red maple for commercial…

When I moved back to Ohio in late 2018, I was eager to continue my study of fire ecology, keep up my Rx fire chops, and continue my wildland fire sawyer taskbook as well. Thanks to Woodcock Nature Preserve and the loose network of landowners who have participated, I have been able to make progress…

It may sound crazy, but we did this first big planting in June 2020, with very small (2 ft) trees. People thought we were crazy, and some colleagues at a certain local conservation organization actually took bets out that our trees would fail. We had 3 die, and many of them outgrew the 5 ft…