Published monthly by the Society of American For-esters (SAF), The Forestry Source (ISSN 1084-5496) provides SAF members and other natural resource professionals with news regarding developments within the forestry profession as well as the activities and policies of SAF. The opinions expressed in articles, commentaries, and letters do not necessarily reflect the policies or views of SAF. Publisher: Terry Baker, terryb@safnet.org Editor: Steve Wilent, (503) 622-3033, wilents@safnet.org Associate Editor: Andrea Watts, wattsa@safnet.org Editorial Offices and Advertising Sales 10100 Laureate Way, Bethesda, MD 20814 Tel (301) 897-8720 • www.safnet.org Correspondence: Address all editorial correspon-dence to the Editor at the above address. Advertising inquiries should be directed to John R. Barnwell at (301) 897-8720, ext. 300. Subscription rates: $61 for individuals in the US and Canada $116 in other countries); $116 for institutions in the US ($173 in other countries). 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Postmaster: Send address changes to The Forestry Source , 10100 Laureate Way, Bethesda, MD 20814, Attn.: E. Cooke Periodicals postage paid at Bethesda, Maryland, and at additional mailing offices. Printed in the USA. © 2020, Society of American Foresters. ISSN 1084-5496. Figure 1. The new digital edition of The Forestry Source on a Windows 10 desktop computer. Clicking or tapping on a headline opens an article in a separate window, where the text size may be changed to make reading easier. NOTEBOOK n From Page 1 also serves as a vehicle for news about the Society, such as division and chapter ac-complishments, member news, and elec-tions: See page 1 an interview with Tamara Cushing, who took office as SAF president on January 1, and page 3 for the results of the 2019 election. Along the way, we’ve added new col-umns designed to offer additional value to readers, such as Forest Products Market-place and Field Tech, which debuted in the January 2009 edition (the title, “GPS Accuracy: Your Mileage May Vary”—an is-sue that has been revisited several times in the column and likely will be again). Beginning in 2015, Andrea Watts took the associate editor post and began contributing feature articles and columns. She brought welcome new perspectives and ideas for expanding the scope of the Source ’s coverage, such as in the Future of SAF and Chapter Resources columns. An-drea is the main editor for a new section that begins this month, featuring lessons learned by SAF members throughout their careers. See “Mary Beth Adams: Lessons Learned from a Career in Research,” on page 15. What’s in store for this newspaper? An exciting new chapter for the Source begins this month: SAF has launched a digital ver-sion to complement the traditional paper copies mailed to members each month (which is what I call the “forest product” edition). Several years’ worth of the Source were available in a digital, online format until mid-2018; we ended that service be-cause of the high cost and lack of flexibility. Our new digital service provider, BlueToad Inc., offers a flexible and easy-to-use platform accessible on any device. Now you can read the Source on your desktop computer, smartphone, or tablet. As shown in Figure 1, Source content ap-pears in the same format as the hard-copy version, called the “page view,” or you can click/tap on a headline to open an article in a separate “article view” window, where you can increase or decrease the text size to suit your needs. When in page view, click or tap anywhere on the screen (ex-cept a headline) to open or close toolbars at the top and bottom of the screen. In the upper toolbar, click on the Menu icon in Figure 2. The “contents view” is an alternative to the “page view” shown in Figure 1. This image was captured on an iPad Mini. Clicking on the speaker icon in the upper right corner of each tile enables audio narration of the article. the upper left corner for a range of op-tions, such as switching from page view to the contents view format shown in Figure 2. In the lower bar, click on the magnify-ing glass to search that edition or all dig-ital editions as of January 2020. Click or tap on the Share icon to send a link to the article or page to Facebook, Twitter, Linke-dIn, or Pinterest. I tested this by sending a “check this out” e-mail message to myself and viewed it on my Android cell phone. With this handy feature, you can easily share Source articles and your comments on them with colleagues. The digital Source works equally well regardless of operating system or device. We published the December 2019 edition how to make the Source better: Construc-tive criticism is welcome. If you have any trouble with the digital edition, please let me know. Contact me at wilents@safnet .org. In the digital version of any edition, go to the masthead on page 2 and click or tap on my e-mail address to send a message. I look forward to hearing from you. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Editor’s note: SAF member John Strick-ler sent this note to Lauren Pile, who wrote the Future of SAF essay in the November edition, “The Connection between Hardwood Forests and the Dream Job.” The article fea-tures a photograph of Pile standing next to a sign marking the boundary of the Cane Ridge hunting area on the Mark Twain National Forest. An edited version of the note appears here with Strickler’s and Pile’s permission. Hi Lauren, Congratulations on your interesting article in The Forestry Source . Although you and I represent opposite ends of the career cycle, we have some common interests. I am an 83-year-old forester who graduated from the Missouri University School of Forestry in 1957. I am an SAF Fellow in my 63rd year as an SAF member. My first job on graduation was with the US Forest Service on the Coconino National Forest at the Happy Jack Ranger District, more than 45 miles southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. My job was marking virgin ponderosa pine timber for sale to Southwest Lumber Co., which had a contract with the Forest Service. At the time, this was the largest sale the Forest Service had experienced. After nine months in Arizona, I spent six months in the US Army Reserve at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. I then became the assistant district ranger on the Poplar Bluff Rang-er District in Missouri, which at that time was part of the Shawnee National Forest, headquartered over in Illinois. One of my responsibilities was to begin work on the Cane Ridge Wildlife Area by building ponds and food plots all along Cane Ridge Road. It was about that time that the first wild turkeys were introduced on the dis-The Forestry Source Society of American Foresters The mission of the Society of American Foresters is to advance the science, education, technology, and practice of forestry; to enhance the competency of its members; to establish standards of professional excellence; and to use the knowledge, skills, and conservation ethic of the profession to ensure the continued health and use of forest ecosystems and the present and future availability of forest resources to benefit society. President: Tamara L. Cushing Tamara.Cushing@oregonstate.edu Vice-President: Henry Kodama, CF kodama@homesc.com Immediate Past President: David S. Lewis, CF, ACF dlewis@southernforestry.net Chief Executive Officer: Terry Baker, terryb@safnet.org Board of Directors (District) : Thomas M. Hanson, CF (1); Mark Buckbee (2); Nicholas Dennis (3); Beverly Yelczyn (4); Tara Bal, CF (5); Mariann Garrison-John-ston, CF (6); David P. Gwaze (7); Anne Jewell, CF (8); Tim Phelps (9); Richard (Dick) W. Brinker; (10); William “Buddy” Stalnaker, CF (11). Non-voting members of the Board of Directors : Britta-ny Church, Chair, Student Executive Committee; Craig MacLean, Chair, Forest Policy Committee; Ryan Arm-brust, Chair, House of Society Delegates; Nan Pond, Chair, Forest Science and Technology Board. National Office Department Directors : Morgan Fincham, Director, Publications; Steven E. Glover, Director, Mem-bership; Naomi Marcus, Director, Professional Devel-opment; Lori Rasor, Director, Awards and State Society Liaison; Carol Redelsheimer, CF, Director, Science and Education; Danielle Watson, Director, Policy, Commu-nications, and External Relations. The digital Source works equally well re-gardless of operating system or device. on the BlueToad platform to test its fea-tures before announcing the availability of the digital version this month. I accessed it with my Windows 10 desktop comput-er (Figure 1) and an iPad Mini (Figure 2), and in each case, the view changed to fit the size of the screen. One cool feature of the digital edition is audio narration. In article or contents view, click on the speaker icon to have the article read to you (see Figure 2). This is great for anyone who dislikes reading on a screen or has difficulty doing so. Note that website and e-mail address-es in articles and ads are live—click or tap to visit them. Speaking of advertising, in future editions, you may see ads that appear only in the digital version of the Source . (Thinking of advertising? Contact SAF publications director Morgan Fin-cham, at morgan@safnet.org.) To open the digital version of this edi-tion, go to the Source page on e-forester .org, the SAF website, or use this shortcut: tinyurl.com/wsyubzu. You’ll need to sign in using your SAF username and pass-word; the Source is available only to SAF members and subscribers. 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