America’s Most Iconic Bear Finds a Home in Maine. By Hope Light Local families gathered at an unusual meeting space on a cloudy morning last week in a heartwarming display of community spirit. They came together to celebrate America’s most iconic bear’s 80th birthday and to welcome a 6-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture of Smokey Bear to…
2023 Downeast region tour participants visit Baskahegan Company lands and visit a harvest conducted by A&A Brochu. Met with Enthusiasm and Support from Maine Businesses and Educators. By Hope Light Returning for its 27th year, Maine businesses and educators have enthusiastically received Maine TREE’s Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours. Since 1997, Maine TREE’s Forests of…
Maine TREE and the Brewer School Department Announce the Return of their Innovative Forestry Immersion Program By Hope Light In 2023, Maine TREE and the Brewer School Department collaborated to introduce a Forestry Immersion Program. This program allowed students to spend six weeks in the forest while earning high school credits. We’re thrilled to announce…
2023 Conventional Logger of the Year, Gene Daigle, has been a Certified Logging Professional since 1995. Although Gene admits he didn’t fully appreciate the learning opportunity when he took his first CLP training, looking back, he recognizes how significant the program is, saying, “When I first took this program, we learned about different ways of…
Kacey Weber, PCSWCD Education Coordinator, enjoys the sun from the front porch of her cabin during a 2023 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tour. By: Kacey Weber, PCSWCD Education Coordinator I have been with the PCSWCD for 10 years, making me no stranger to the forest industry and forest ecology. When the opportunity to attend the…
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of the first-ever Holt Research Forest Fellow.
Maine Timber Research & Environmental Education Foundation (Maine TREE) is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Austin H. Wilkins Forest Stewardship Award and the newly established Sherry Huber Forest Champion Award. These awards honor individuals, landowners, and organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the sustainable management of Maine’s forest resources….
Mike Parisio, Amanda Mahaffey, Tom Newell, and Tyler Everett discuss brown ash and identifying signs of emerald ash borer. Written by Gavi Mallory At the beginning of March, Maine TREE Foundation co-hosted a field tour at Carleton Pond forest, a Greater Augusta Utility District Tree Farm. The program was part of Maine’s Forest Climate Change…
By Joe Rankin, Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Editors Note: This story was originally published in 2018. In 2021, researchers from the University of New Hampshire identified southern pine beetle for the first time in Maine. Sometimes the name of an organism carries weighty meaning. For instance, that of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis….
Photo courtesy of North Maine WoodsThere is the north Maine woods: the vast expanse of trees and mountains and ponds that makes up a significant portion of the Pine Tree State. Then there is North Maine Woods, the organization that manages recreation on 3.5 million acres of the state owned by a variety of landowners,…
