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Threats, Challenges Facing Maine’s Forests
Forests have always faced threats. From natural disturbances like hurricanes and wildfires to native pests and diseases like spruce...
Hope Light
Apr 10, 20207 min read
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Trees and Winter…..
Warming temperatures, less snowfall pose new challenges for northeastern species Winter can be a challenge. For people. And trees. It’s...
Hope Light
Mar 10, 20205 min read
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Pinning down Maine’s future forest
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Forests aren’t static. They’re dynamic. Since trees colonized the rubble left by the...
Hope Light
Nov 20, 20194 min read
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Fall Foliage Brings the Green to Maine
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Autumn, or at least the fall foliage part of autumn, is rapidly disappearing in the rear...
Hope Light
Nov 6, 20194 min read
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White Pines Hit by Needle Disease Year After Year
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Something’s not right. That’s what my MacBook tells me when I’ve got a wonky internet...
Hope Light
Oct 1, 20195 min read
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Planting yourself in the forest “Green” burials are a growing thing
Have you ever noticed how many cemeteries have the word forest in their name? Forest Lawn is perhaps the best known. But usually, there’s...
Hope Light
Aug 21, 20196 min read
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The American elm: Past, present . . . future?
Years ago I planted an American elm in my yard. I was creating what my wife likes to call an arboretum on the handful of our 75 acres...
Hope Light
Jun 27, 20196 min read
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Make a Home for Wildlife with the Help of Author Charles Fergus
Charles Fergus loves nothing better than to rev up his walk-behind DR brush hog and mow his fields. He’s not aiming for anything like a...
Hope Light
May 29, 20197 min read
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Ferns: Beauty and Grace in the Understory
“Outdoors” people, even those that don’t consider themselves naturalists, can identify trees, at the least common species. And the common...
Hope Light
Apr 26, 20196 min read
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Deer yards: Shelter from the storm
It’s not easy being a whitetail deer in Maine in the winter, especially northern Maine. The snow piles deep, the frozen winds howl down...
Hope Light
Apr 8, 20196 min read
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Aging Sentinels: the roadside maples of Maine
Travel the rural roads in this part of the country and you’ll see them along roadsides and driveways and in yards. Green in summer, a...
Hope Light
Mar 6, 20195 min read
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Old-Growth Forests: Back to the Future?
There’s no question that old growth forests are fairly uncommon, especially in the eastern parts of North America. In a handful of...
Hope Light
Jan 29, 20196 min read
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Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
Human-caused climate change is THE environmental issue of our times. Alarming reports point out that we’re already seeing the effects of...
Hope Light
Dec 4, 20186 min read
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Moosehead Lake Region
The Moosehead Lake area has been a destination for a long time. Native Americans came hundreds of miles to collect the rare igneous rock...
Hope Light
Oct 26, 20187 min read
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Forest Management in the big city
Not unusual, this is Maine, after all, the most forested state in the country. But it is noteworthy because it occurred in Maine’s...
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Sep 26, 20185 min read
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The Nature Conservancy makes a bet on carbon
Lumber, as any tree and forest lover can tell you, isn’t the only valuable thing forests produce. They buffer noise, provide habitat for...
Hope Light
Aug 23, 20185 min read
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Is Southern Pine Beetle in Maine’s Future
By Joe Rankin, Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Editors Note: This story was originally published in 2018. In 2021, researchers from the...
Hope Light
Jul 26, 20187 min read
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Exemplary Forestry: A New Paradigm for the Northeast’s Woodlands?
Robert Perschel has worked in forestry for a long time. As an industrial forester, a forestry consultant, with The Wilderness Society and...
Hope Light
May 22, 20185 min read
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CLT: The Great Wood Hope
People have been gluing up wood for thousands of years. Prehistoric peoples bonded spear points and ax heads to wood with glue. The...
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Apr 25, 20186 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Mar 27, 20186 min read
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