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Understory Notes Desk

Desk

Wednesday · the autumn edition freezes in 12 days. Three chapters sit in review and three corrections are still unissued.

Chapters
102 published
In review
3
Unverified observations
3
Corrections outstanding
3oldest 21 days

Needs a decision

Demo data
Safe Entry has been on hold for 21 days

The permission section does not cover tenanted farmland, and the chapter cannot clear review until it does. Everything downstream of it — the practice part — is blocked behind this one decision.

Open chapters
A safety-adjacent correction is 11 days unissued

Fungi After Rain prints a fruiting window of Sep–Oct. The verified range is Aug–Nov. Readers using the narrow window will look in the wrong months, and the chapter is already published.

Open corrections
Three observations are unverified before the freeze

Two are single-observer records from Colm Byrne with no photograph attached. A record with one observer and no image does not meet the guide's own evidence bar, so it cannot be cited in a chapter.

Open observations
Water Margins and Night Sounds are still under 1,200 words

Both were opened today. They are thin rather than late, but neither will survive a field check at this length.

Recent activity

  • Fly agaric ring logged
  • Fungi After Rain moved to review
  • Tracks correction issued
  • Seasonal Return sent for field check
  • Pine marten scat declined

Edition

Edition
Autumn 2026
Copy freeze
5 Oct 2026
Field checks
2 of 10 chapters outstanding
Reviewers
6 contributors, 1 external
Errata policy
Issue within 14 days of verification

Chapters

The guide's contents and where each chapter sits in the editorial pass. Press / to jump to the filter.

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10 of 10 chapters
Chapters, sortable and filterable. Demo data only.
Part Lead Stage
Light, gaps, and layers
Orientation Ines Calloway 3,140 2 Sep 2026 Published
Naming a tree in winter
Orientation Marguerite Okon 2,780 19 Aug 2026 Published
What grows under the shade
Orientation Marguerite Okon 4,020 21 Sep 2026 In review
Fruiting bodies and their season
Seasons Torsten Vaile 3,660 22 Sep 2026 In review
Prints, gaits, and stride
Signs Dev Rasmussen 2,410 18 Sep 2026 Field check
Visiting the same wood four times
Seasons Torsten Vaile 3,290 20 Sep 2026 Field check
What to carry, what to record
Practice Alma Petrescu 1,640 17 Sep 2026 In review
Access, permission, and turning back
Practice Ines Calloway 2,050 14 Sep 2026 On hold
Streams, flushes, and wet hollows
Habitats Marguerite Okon 1,180 Today Draft
Listening after the light goes
Habitats Dev Rasmussen 880 Today Draft

Observations

Field records submitted against a chapter. Nothing may be cited in the guide until it is verified.

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9 of 9 observations
Observations, sortable and filterable. Demo data only.
Chapter Recorder State
Eleven caps, no photograph
Fungi After Rain Colm Byrne Today 1 Unverified
Mink not ruled out
Water Margins Colm Byrne 22 Sep 2026 1 Query
Audio attached, 40 min past sunset
Night Sounds Dev Rasmussen 22 Sep 2026 2 Unverified
Location withheld from print
Ground Flora Colm Byrne 21 Sep 2026 1 Unverified
Photographed, two observers
Fungi After Rain Torsten Vaile 20 Sep 2026 2 Verified
Repeat visit confirmed
Tracks in Soft Ground Dev Rasmussen 19 Sep 2026 3 Verified
Height implausible for roe
Tracks in Soft Ground Colm Byrne 16 Sep 2026 1 Query
Outside the known range
Tracks in Soft Ground Colm Byrne 8 Sep 2026 1 Declined
Spring record, held for reprint
Ground Flora Marguerite Okon 12 Apr 2026 4 Verified

Glossary

The guide's controlled vocabulary. A term is only usable in a chapter once it has a settled definition.

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A catalogue without a price. The shared admin pattern expects this slot to hold a priceable catalogue with a rate or unit cost column. A glossary is a catalogue of meanings, not of goods — it has no price, so no price column is shown. Inventing one would be the only dishonest thing on this screen.

10 of 10 terms
Glossary terms, sortable and filterable. Demo data only.
Part Definition
Woodland cut on a rotation
Orientation 4 2 Mar 2026 Settled
A dead tree still upright
Orientation 3 2 Mar 2026 Settled
Species list varies by region
Orientation 2 30 Jul 2026 In review
Otter droppings
Signs 2 14 May 2026 Settled
Even height where deer reach
Signs 2 14 May 2026 Settled
Cone reduced to a ragged core
Signs 1 18 Sep 2026 Draft
A cut track through woodland
Habitats 3 2 Mar 2026 Settled
Ground fed by seeping water
Habitats 1 Today Draft
Tree blown over with its root plate
Habitats 2 8 Jun 2026 Settled
Access granted, not a right of way
Practice 1 14 Sep 2026 In review

Corrections

The errata ledger. A correction is raised, verified, then issued — and ages visibly until it is.

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This guide does not take money. The shared admin pattern puts a settled-transaction ledger here — invoices, payments, an amount outstanding. A field guide has no customer and no transaction, so there is nothing truthful to put in those columns. What it does have is the same shape for a different stake: a claim is either corrected in print or it is not, and the days it stays wrong are the cost. That ledger is shown instead. No prices, totals, or payment states appear anywhere in this admin.

Outstanding
3oldest 21 days
Past the 14-day window
1
Issued this edition
2
Withdrawn
1
8 of 8 corrections
Corrections, sortable and filterable. Demo data only.
Chapter Severity State
ERR-2026-014
Safe Entry 2 Sep 2026 21 Safety Outstanding
ERR-2026-017
Fungi After Rain 12 Sep 2026 11 Safety Outstanding
ERR-2026-021
Seasonal Return 19 Sep 2026 4 Factual Outstanding
ERR-2026-019
Ground Flora 15 Sep 2026 8 Regional Verified
ERR-2026-020
Tracks in Soft Ground 17 Sep 2026 6 Factual Verified
ERR-2026-011
Bark and Branch 26 Aug 2026 0 Credit Issued
ERR-2026-008
Reading the Canopy 11 Aug 2026 0 Factual Issued
ERR-2026-016
Water Margins 10 Sep 2026 0 None Withdrawn

Contributors

Six people write, check, and illustrate this guide. The roster is this small on purpose.

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6 of 6 contributors
Contributors, sortable and filterable. Demo data only.
Subject Role
Editor
Orientation, practice 2 3 Editorial
Botany lead
Botany 3 2 Editorial
Mycology
Fungi 2 2 Specialist
Tracks and signs
Mammals 2 1 Specialist
Illustration
Plates, diagrams 1 1 Illustration
Field checker
Field records 0 5 External

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Not field guidance. Every chapter, observation, term, and correction here is invented for layout purposes. None of it is ecological, foraging, or safety advice. A real guide needs sourcing, qualified review, change history, hazard language, a stated geographic scope, and a tested correction path before it is published.

Guide

Guide name

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Understory Notes
Edition

The edition a chapter is published into when it clears review.

Autumn 2026
Copy freeze

After this date no chapter text changes; corrections go to the errata sheet instead.

5 Oct 2026
Geographic scope

The region the guide claims to cover. Records outside it are declined.

Lowland broadleaf woodland

Editorial policy

Evidence bar

What an observation needs before a chapter may cite it.

Two observers or one photograph
Field check

Chapters describing signs or habitats are checked on the ground before publishing.

Required for Signs and Habitats
Correction window

How long a verified correction may stay unissued before it is escalated.

14 days
Sensitive locations

Protected-species records are held without a grid reference in print.

Withheld by default

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