Letters From the Executive Director, Editors, and Art Director — page 3

Resource Management, Education, Projects, Publications, Membership — page 4

Log of the Fish Hawk, Island Institute Field Work — page 6

Seeing Woods for the Trees: Island Forestry – Philip W Conkling — page 11

The Places We Walk: Ecological Ambles on Maine Islands – George Putz — page 15

Roque: An Island in Time – David R. Getchell, Sr. — page 19

Sidebar: An Act in Time? — page 23

Fishing Beautiful Benefactors: Sardine Carriers of the Maine Coast – Mike Brown — page 25

Fire in the Fog: The Burning of Seal Island – Joe Upton — page 28

Bad Day at The Gut: Oxygen, Pogies, and the National Debt – Ed Myers — page 31

Kelp is on the Way: Sea Vegetables of the Surf Zone – Larch Hanson — page 35

Island Night Birds: Notes on Leach’s Storm-Petrels – Richard Harris Podolsky — page 38

Quiet Coves: Cruising among the Islands – Roger Duncan — page 41

Deer Isle Defenders – Clayton Gross — page 43

The Islanders and Matinicus – Philip Booth — page 46

The Legacy of Cyrus Rackliff – Amy Payson — page 50

Cyrus – Wilbert Snow — page 52

Three Lights Lived: Profile of Beulah Quinn – Alicia Rouverol — page 55

Ghostly Light: The Abandonment of Seguin Light – Jennifer Wilder Logan — page 58

Sidebar: Threatened Lights – Philip W Conkling — page 60

Radio Waves News from Offshore — page 61

Lobstering and the Maine Coast – The Great Lobster Chase-The Country of the Pointed Firs-

High Tide Trilogy- Ruth Moore Bibliography — page 67

Note of Thanks for Loyal Supporters — page 70