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The American elm: Past, present . . . future?

Hope Light

Jun 27, 20196 min read

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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Make a Home for Wildlife with the Help of Author Charles Fergus

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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Ferns: Beauty and Grace in the Understory

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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Aging Sentinels: the roadside maples of Maine

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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The Nature Conservancy makes a bet on carbon

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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Is Southern Pine Beetle in Maine’s Future

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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Exemplary Forestry: A New Paradigm for the Northeast’s Woodlands?

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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Timber Framing: Ancient Art for a New Age

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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Maine Wood Manufacturers are still an Important Part of the Economy

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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Forest Fires in Maine: History and Outlook

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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Maine Heritage Timber: Retrieving Old Growth Wood from a Lake

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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The Forest Understory: Diverse. Dynamic. Difficult

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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Alan Hutchinson: A Legacy of Forest Landscape

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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