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The American elm: Past, present . . . future?
Years ago I planted an American elm in my yard. I was creating what my wife likes to call an arboretum on the handful of our 75 acres...
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Hope Light
May 29, 20197 min read
Make a Home for Wildlife with the Help of Author Charles Fergus
Charles Fergus loves nothing better than to rev up his walk-behind DR brush hog and mow his fields. He’s not aiming for anything like a...
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Hope Light
Apr 26, 20196 min read
Ferns: Beauty and Grace in the Understory
“Outdoors” people, even those that don’t consider themselves naturalists, can identify trees, at the least common species. And the common...
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Hope Light
Apr 8, 20196 min read
Deer yards: Shelter from the storm
It’s not easy being a whitetail deer in Maine in the winter, especially northern Maine. The snow piles deep, the frozen winds howl down...
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Hope Light
Mar 6, 20195 min read
Aging Sentinels: the roadside maples of Maine
Travel the rural roads in this part of the country and you’ll see them along roadsides and driveways and in yards. Green in summer, a...
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Hope Light
Jan 29, 20196 min read
Old-Growth Forests: Back to the Future?
There’s no question that old growth forests are fairly uncommon, especially in the eastern parts of North America. In a handful of...
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Hope Light
Dec 4, 20186 min read
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
Human-caused climate change is THE environmental issue of our times. Alarming reports point out that we’re already seeing the effects of...
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Hope Light
Oct 26, 20187 min read
Moosehead Lake Region
The Moosehead Lake area has been a destination for a long time. Native Americans came hundreds of miles to collect the rare igneous rock...
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Hope Light
Sep 26, 20185 min read
Forest Management in the big city
Not unusual, this is Maine, after all, the most forested state in the country. But it is noteworthy because it occurred in Maine’s...
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Hope Light
Aug 23, 20185 min read
The Nature Conservancy makes a bet on carbon
Lumber, as any tree and forest lover can tell you, isn’t the only valuable thing forests produce. They buffer noise, provide habitat for...
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Hope Light
Jul 26, 20187 min read
Is Southern Pine Beetle in Maine’s Future
By Joe Rankin, Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Editors Note: This story was originally published in 2018. In 2021, researchers from the...
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Hope Light
May 22, 20185 min read
Exemplary Forestry: A New Paradigm for the Northeast’s Woodlands?
Robert Perschel has worked in forestry for a long time. As an industrial forester, a forestry consultant, with The Wilderness Society and...
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Hope Light
Apr 25, 20186 min read
CLT: The Great Wood Hope
People have been gluing up wood for thousands of years. Prehistoric peoples bonded spear points and ax heads to wood with glue. The...
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Hope Light
Mar 27, 20186 min read
Timber Framing: Ancient Art for a New Age
Back in the day, John Sweet Jr. was an ironworker who helped build paper mills. But in 1982 he made a big career shift into a much more...
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Hope Light
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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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