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Paul Hetzler leading winter tree ID workshop
Paul Hetzler Essay Series
Paul Hetzler was the Horticulture & Natural Resources Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County for over a decade, until moving to Canada in 2019. His passion and curiosity for the wide world of flora and fauna ring clearn in his essays, archived below.
- Alternative Gardens
- Another Take on Color
- Arbor Day 2014
- Asian Lady Beetle
- Basswood
- Chocolate
- Christmas Tree 2014
- Coltsfoot
- Cold-Weather Corn
- Core Issues
- Cradle Will Rock
- Deer Flies
- Dog-Strangling Vines
- EAB Invasive Species Week
- Early Fall Color
- Elders
- Elms
- Fall Transplanting 2014
- Feral Pigs
- Firewood Bugs Me
- Freeze-Pops 2015
- Frost
- Getting the LED Out
- Getting to the Root of the Problem
- Goldenrod
- Got Grubs
- Great Pumpkins
- Groundhog
- Gum Trees
- Hawthorn
- Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
- Hikers, Hunters, Stinky Socks and Raisins
- How Many BTUs in Your Yule Log
- How Well is Your Water
- I Brake for Dinosaurs
- Juneberries
- Katydid
- Low Bid Blight
- Maple Sap
- Marshmallow Tree
- Masked Hunters
- Medicinal Plants
- Monster Mosquitoes
- Need for Nature
- Problems with Names
- Preventing Construction Damage to Trees
- Preventing Salt Injury to Trees and Shrubs
- Red-Wing Blackbirds
- Preventing Storm Damage
- Respect your Elders
- Seed Catalogs 2015
- Seedy Story
- Shade Trees
- Smear Campaign
- Smell of the Wild
- Snow Farming
- Snow Fleas
- Stress Causes Helicopters
- Sumac
- Tent Caterpillars
- Test Your Tree IQ
- Thanksgiving.doc
- The Fall Color Conspiracy
- Thundersnow
- Ticks
- Timber Theft
- Tree Immune Systems
- Tree Topping
- Triage for Icy Trees
- Ugly Tree Disease
- Vengeful Veggies
- What Goes Down Comes Up
- What's in a Name
- White Pine
- Willow Farming
- Window Fern and Frost Flowers
- Winter Birds
- Winterberry
- Winter Buds
Last updated April 18, 2025