My new book is at the printers

SU professor authors new book, ‘Among the Ancients’ The Daily Times delmarvanow.com

The link above is from today's Daily Times - it's the first publicity for book #2 which is at the printers now!

Liz and Dan at Ruka Press are doing a great job.

Which book cover do you like for "Among the Ancients"?

My press is deciding on a book cover right now! To see the choices and voice your opinion click this link: http://www.rukapress.com/vote-on-cover-ancients/#more-74

Very exciting! Thanks Ruka.

Getting to Old Growth - my second book -just signed

The good news of the week is that my second book, "Getting to Old Growth," has just been signed for publication with Ruka Press. More details about the book and the press are available from this link:

http://www.rukapress.com/maloof-signs/

Measuring the Beauty of Forests

My research on measuring the beauty of forests was just published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies. The link below leads to the full article, but the short story is that mature forests are more beautiful than young forests. (I think we already knew that, but here is the data to prove it.)

http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~jemaloof/manuscripts/Measuring%20the%20BeautyofForests.pdf

New tricks

I am now SCUBA certified! The life forms in our oceans are amazingly beautiful. (And yes, if you look very closely that IS a shark in the background.)

Happy Earth Day

The Chesapeake Forest manager hugs a white oak tree in the Corbin Canyon area of the Pocomoke State Forest.

After a group of foresters, auditors, botanists and advisory committee members (that's me) visited the forest last week, it was decided that the forest will not be logged. I am celebrating!

The comment period for Pocomoke State Forest logging plans has been extended until March 1st because of the snowy weather. If you are a Maryland resident please consider sending your comments to sbennett@dnr.state.md.us