A Year in the Wonderland of Trees

Twelve months in the woods — why leaves turn, how squirrels bank their acorns, what the winds plant and the April rains conjure — nature writing for young wood scouts, one month at a time.

The Wood Scouts and the Wood-Lot: January

3 pages in this part of Wonderland of Trees.

The Wood Scouts and the Wood-Lot: January

January is the month in which business men are accustomed to take inventory; that is to say, to make a list of the goods they have in…

The Wood Scouts and the Wood-Lot: January: Wood-Lot

If you want to be a farmer boy and happen to have been born one--in which case you're in luck--or were born a farmer boy and think you'd…

The Wood Scouts and the Wood-Lot: January: Maple

An 80-acre farm in Michigan had on it a 10-acre wood-lot, containing about 48,000 board-feet (A "board-foot" is the contents of a board one…

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