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Maine Wood Manufacturers are still an Important Part of the Economy
They produce gun stocks, flooring, cedar shingles, log homes, wooden playsets. They make cigar tips, wooden pack baskets, doors and...
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Hope Light
Jan 23, 20184 min read
Invasive Plants in Maine
There are a lot of threats to Maine forests — fragmentation, poor forestry practices, development, imported and native pests and diseases...
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Hope Light
Dec 14, 20177 min read
Forest Fires in Maine: History and Outlook
This was the year the West burned. The numbers are mind-boggling: By the end of November alone more than 56,000 wildfires had burned 9.1...
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Hope Light
Nov 20, 20176 min read
Maine Heritage Timber: Retrieving Old Growth Wood from a Lake
Tom Shafer’s business is mining trees. It’s not really harvesting; maybe re-harvesting. “Recovering a forgotten forest” is his company...
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Hope Light
Oct 27, 20175 min read
The Forest Understory: Diverse. Dynamic. Difficult
Wild sarsaparilla is not a flashy forest dweller. It doesn’t soar overhead, or have showy blossoms. Or produce copious amounts of fruit...
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Hope Light
Sep 25, 20177 min read
Alan Hutchinson: A Legacy of Forest Landscape
Alan Hutchinson was always thinking. Thinking about ways to approach things differently, to bring people together, to untangle...
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Hope Light
Aug 24, 20175 min read
SFI Project Volunteers Build Two Playhouses for 2017 Make-A-Wish Foundation Recipients
The Maine forest industry’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative has helped out on a lot of community projects over the past decade or so....
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Hope Light
Jul 25, 20175 min read
North Maine Woods: Managing recreation on a sizable chunk of Maine
How did North Maine Woods get started? There was cooperation among landowners in the region going back to the 1880s. The landowners were...
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Hope Light
Jun 26, 20175 min read
Succession: How a forest recreates itself
By Joe Rankin A forest, like all living things, is constantly changing. Sometimes the changes are big and abrupt and obvious and...
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Hope Light
May 11, 20176 min read
Up and Down: Layers of the Forest
The forest — any forest, really — doesn’t just stretch out across the land like a blanket (or a washcloth if it’s a small patch of...
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Hope Light
Mar 23, 20176 min read
The Eastern U.S.: Just Gotta Be a Forest?
By Joe Rankin Predominantly forested has been the steady state of Maine’s landscape for the vast majority of the last 10,000 years. In...
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Hope Light
Feb 22, 20177 min read
Aldo Leopold Week is Celebrated the First Week in March
The party was eating lunch on a high rimrock when they saw the mother wolf come out of the river, shake off the water, and greet her...
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Hope Light
Jan 23, 20175 min read
Winter: A Time to get to know your Forest Neighbors by their Tracks
There’s something about the winter woods — the profound silence, the sheer whiteness. Snow whispering through the branches of the firs or...
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Hope Light
Dec 20, 20166 min read
“Old Growth” Forests Defined by Key Ecological Characteristics
By JOE RANKIN There is something about big trees that stirs up a feeling of awe in us. And when those trees grow together in an old...
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Hope Light
Nov 22, 20166 min read
Maine’s Most Common Tree, a Favorite of Deer and Pests
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future writer Quickly now. This is a quiz. What is the most common tree species in Maine? You might...
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Hope Light
Oct 21, 20165 min read
For This Wood Pellet Manufacturer, Small is Beautiful
Erik Carlson remembers exactly where he was when he got the idea of getting into the wood pellet manufacturing business. It was September...
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Hope Light
Sep 21, 20165 min read
Budworm Communications
It’s safe to say that things have changed since the 1970s and 1980s, when the spruce budworm last ravaged the northern Maine woods. The...
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Hope Light
Aug 17, 20165 min read
Climate Change, Drought, and the Northern Forest
By Joe Rankin, published August 2016 Much of the southern half of Maine is dry. Really dry. Lawns brown. Gardens struggling. Wells drying...
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Hope Light
Jul 19, 20165 min read
Spruce Budworm Population Tracked by Landowners Across Northeast Pheremone Traps Help to Gather Data
Brett Mitchell has a vested interest in keeping tabs on the population of spruce budworm moths — he and his son own a 45-acre Christmas...
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Hope Light
Jun 17, 20165 min read
What is a healthy forest?
By JOE RANKIN You’re in a store, say, and you look around you at the other patrons. Can you tell who is healthy? For a few, maybe. For...
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