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2022 Maine Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year: Vince & Kathi Seiwert of Bombadil Tree Farm
Each year, the Maine Tree Farm Program recognizes the superior stewardship of its members through the annual Outstanding Tree Farmer of...
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Hope Light
Dec 28, 20211 min read
Maine Tree Farm Photo Contest
The Maine Tree Farm Program will be celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2022! The Maine Tree Farm Committee is greatly looking forward to...
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Hope Light
Oct 23, 20202 min read
Forests For Maine’s Future Celebrates a Decade of Storytelling
By Logan Johnson Forests for Maine’s Future (FMF) began in October of 2010 by publishing 18 stories to FMF’s “Fresh from the Woods...
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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 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
Dec 22, 20147 min read
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...
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Hope Light
Jun 18, 20147 min read
Aliens in the Maine woods
Terrestrial invasive plants can wreak havoc with forests By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Licensed forester Jeff Williams...
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Hope Light
Jul 25, 20137 min read
Bringing back the giants
The effort to restore the American chestnut tree to Maine’s forest By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer The crew moves across...
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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
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
Oct 27, 20118 min read
Once and Future Uses of Wood
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer In the mid-’60s Eric Sloane wrote “A Reverence for Wood,” a tribute to the importance of...
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Hope Light
Jul 27, 20117 min read
Penobscot Experimental Forest: Six decades of science
July 2011 By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer On a recent summer day, while showing a visitor around the Penobscot...
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Hope Light
Mar 31, 20118 min read
The Forest Bookshelf
The Forest Bookshelf March 2011 By Joe Rankin Today Henry David Thoreau is best remembered for Walden, the account of the time he lived...
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Hope Light
Oct 2, 20105 min read
Chestnut Revival
Fresh from the Woods Nut enthusiasts attempt to breed blight-resistant American chestnut By Andrew Kekacs This is a story about...
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