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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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Hope Light
Aug 24, 20175 min read
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....
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Hope Light
Jul 25, 20175 min read
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...
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Hope Light
Jun 26, 20175 min read
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...
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Hope Light
May 11, 20176 min read
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...
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Hope Light
Mar 23, 20176 min read
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...
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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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