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Trail cameras give you a new window on the woods
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Everyone who walks in the Maine woods has a story about wildlife — the deer that bounded...
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Hope Light
May 23, 20137 min read
Maine Land Trust Network: It’s all about connection
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer A few years ago the Greater Lovell Land Trust in the Kezar Lakes region of western Maine...
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Hope Light
Apr 26, 20137 min read
The St. John Forest experiment
The Nature Conservancy blends conservation, logging in northern Maine The Nature Conservancy owns a lot of land in Maine: some 75...
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Hope Light
Mar 25, 201310 min read
The Forest Society of Maine
Protecting Maine’s forest landscape through conservation easements By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Next year the Forest...
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Hope Light
Feb 24, 20136 min read
Good reviews for online forestry program
Woodland Steward Program’s creators ponder how to boost enrollment By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Cory Gardiner’s...
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Hope Light
Jan 26, 20138 min read
Spruce budworm: Coming again soon?
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer It was a hot July day in the 1970s. Dave Struble was back home in Island Falls, on a day...
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Hope Light
Dec 17, 20126 min read
Nature photography: A new way of seeing the woods
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Pam Wells has patience. When she’s in search of the perfect photo she can wait hours, in...
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Hope Light
Nov 28, 20128 min read
The Future of Forest Products in Maine Tour
New composites, nanocellulose coatings, liquid fuels are on the horizon By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Dwane Hutto is...
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Hope Light
Oct 24, 20129 min read
Maine’s forests: past, present and future . . .
A talk with the author of “The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods” Andrew Barton grew up Asheville, in the mountains of North Carolina,...
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Hope Light
Sep 19, 20125 min read
The Woodland Steward Program
A new online course can help you enjoy and manage your woodland By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Picture this: Three...
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Hope Light
Aug 27, 20127 min read
The Maine Woods (plural)
There are many forest types in the Pine Tree State By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer The Maine Woods. Writers use the...
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Hope Light
Jul 28, 20126 min read
The fascinating process of tree decay
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer For trees, the forest is truly a jungle. First there’s the Olympic-scale intense...
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Hope Light
Jun 27, 20127 min read
There’s an app for that: can technology reconnect us to nature?
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer In the video the young woman stops her car at a nature center, rummages around in the...
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Hope Light
May 24, 20128 min read
Sappi Westbrook: Papermaking on the fashion frontier
A venerable paper mill is the world leader in release papers By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer The names paper...
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Hope Light
Apr 26, 20128 min read
Maine’s public lands: recreation, wildlife habitat, timber
These parcels aren’t as well known as the state’s parks, but that’s changing By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When most...
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Hope Light
Mar 27, 20127 min read
Learning about the woods: places to go, things to see . . .
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Cathy Goslin vividly remembers a first grader visiting the re-created lumbering...
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Hope Light
Feb 26, 20126 min read
Where the wood flows . . . and why
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer You’re driving down a Maine highway, following a logging truck that’s teetering and...
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Hope Light
Jan 25, 20126 min read
Land conservation: still going strong
Despite the down economy, landowners and the public are still eager to ensure the future of Maine’s forest By Joe Rankin Forests for...
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Hope Light
Dec 21, 20116 min read
The modern sawmill: a high tech marvel
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Watching the edger-optimizer at Robbins Lumber Co.’s pine mill in Searsmont induces,...
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Hope Light
Nov 23, 20118 min read
Forest products: it’s not all about logs
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer As a young boy in the 1940s Richard Nadeau frequently spent time in the remote lumber...
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