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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...
Hope Light
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....
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Oct 27, 20148 min read
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Urban Forests — More Important Now Than Ever
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future writer It’s perhaps fitting that the largest city in the most forested state in the nation...
Hope Light
Aug 26, 20148 min read
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Maine is a leader in conservation easements
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer On the west side of the island of Vinalhaven is a tidal inlet of great beauty, called,...
Hope Light
Jul 28, 20148 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Jun 18, 20147 min read
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Helping map the future of Maine
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer At one time or another we’ve all wished we could see into the future, to get just a...
Hope Light
May 23, 20148 min read
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The Long View: Three studies of the Maine forest
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer In a spruce-fir forest north of Bangor tall towers rise above the treetops, studded with...
Hope Light
Apr 26, 20148 min read
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