Here's a collection of fascinating and informative wood facts and lore, excerpted from "Splendid Splinters," a monthly newsletter published by an old pal, David Mather of Lyme, NH, who has spent over 30 years as a forester and purveyor of New England timber, specializing in white pine, butternut and burls. Sit back by the fire, grab a hot buttered cider, and enjoy these informative tales of the Northeastern forest!

Gum Spots in Black Cherry Boxelder Bugs Red Alder Charles Forster and Toothpicks Lake Logging IPS Engraver Beetles Wood Flour The Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Ambrosia Maple American Sycamore The Fall Webworm Powderpost Beetles Cucumber Magnolia The Maple Trumpet Skeletonizer Palm Trees Englemann Spruce Hemlock American Holly Northern Hardwoods, Part 1 Royal Paulownia Persimmon Northern Hardwoods, Part 2 The Tung Tree Red Mulberry Fall Foliage The Maple Leaf Cutter Road Salt The Red Cedars American Chestnut, Part 1 American Chestnut, Part 2 Pecky Cypress Pine Reaction Wood Bug Track White Birch Bark The Twig Pruner Red Mulberry Revisited Scent and Wood Identification Live Oak J.R.R. Tolkien and Trees The Cascara Tree California Buckeye Cork Oak The Twig Girdler