By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer In the video the young woman stops her car at a nature center, rummages around in the backseat, picks up a field guide and . . . tosses it aside. Instead, armed with her iPhone, she heads into the woods to learn about trees….
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Watching the edger-optimizer at Robbins Lumber Co.’s pine mill in Searsmont induces, first, a gee whiz reaction at the sheer, well, efficiency of it, followed by a sort of hypnotic state. Whoosh . . . a board or boards shoots out of the center, the guides shifting…
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 wood in early American life. It’s lovingly illustrated with Sloane’s skillfully detailed pen and ink sketches of everything wood: burl mallets, basswood berry boxes, up-and-down sawmills, timber frame barns. Butter churns…
Fresh from the Woods Producing energy from woodland ‘biomass’ could — over time — add less greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than burning fossil fuels, according to a report from the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. (Photo by Andrew Kekacs) New Study Outlines Costs, Benefits Of Using Wood to Generate Power By Andrew Kekacs The…
