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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....
Hope Light
Aug 24, 20175 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Jul 25, 20175 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Jun 26, 20175 min read
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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...
Hope Light
May 11, 20176 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Mar 23, 20176 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Feb 22, 20177 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Jan 23, 20175 min read
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“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...
Hope Light
Dec 20, 20166 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Nov 22, 20166 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Oct 21, 20165 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Sep 21, 20165 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Aug 17, 20165 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Jul 19, 20165 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Jun 17, 20165 min read
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Students and Others Prepare for the Next Spruce Budworm Outbreak
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer It’s not every educator who sees a teaching opportunity in a forest-munching nondescript...
Hope Light
May 20, 20164 min read
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Forestry for the birds
By JOE RANKIN, Forests for Maine’s Future Writer In 1962 Rachel Carson’s classic enviro-expose Silent Spring was published, laying out...
Hope Light
Mar 27, 20158 min read
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Mechanical harvesting — The future is here
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer You could tell where George Merrill was working by the muted growl of the machinery. We...
Hope Light
Feb 23, 20157 min read
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The white pine, enduring symbol of the Maine woods
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer What’s not to like about the eastern white pine? A majestic tree. Long-lived. Producer of...
Hope Light
Dec 22, 20147 min read
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Bright spots in Maine’s forest products industry
New mills, investments and products help offset losses in some sectors By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When Verso Paper...
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Nov 24, 20146 min read
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Southern Maine’s Future Forest
Factors at play today will help create the woods of the 22nd century By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When Verso Paper Co....
Hope Light
Oct 27, 20148 min read
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