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2022 Maine Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year: Vince & Kathi Seiwert of Bombadil Tree Farm

Hope Light

Dec 28, 20212 min read

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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Forests For Maine’s Future Celebrates a Decade of Storytelling

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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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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Aldo Leopold Week is Celebrated the First Week in March

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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The white pine, enduring symbol of the Maine woods

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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Maine’s forests: past, present and future . . .

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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Penobscot Experimental Forest: Six decades of science

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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