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Spruce budworm: Coming again soon?
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer It was a hot July day in the 1970s. Dave Struble was back home in Island Falls, on a day...
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Jan 26, 20138 min read
Nature photography: A new way of seeing the woods
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Pam Wells has patience. When she’s in search of the perfect photo she can wait hours, in...
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Dec 17, 20126 min read
The Future of Forest Products in Maine Tour
New composites, nanocellulose coatings, liquid fuels are on the horizon By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Dwane Hutto is...
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Nov 28, 20128 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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Oct 24, 20129 min read
The Woodland Steward Program
A new online course can help you enjoy and manage your woodland By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Picture this: Three...
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Sep 19, 20125 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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Aug 27, 20127 min read
The fascinating process of tree decay
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer For trees, the forest is truly a jungle. First there’s the Olympic-scale intense...
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Jul 28, 20126 min read
There’s an app for that: can technology reconnect us to nature?
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...
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Jun 27, 20127 min read
Sappi Westbrook: Papermaking on the fashion frontier
A venerable paper mill is the world leader in release papers By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer The names paper...
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May 24, 20128 min read
Maine’s public lands: recreation, wildlife habitat, timber
These parcels aren’t as well known as the state’s parks, but that’s changing By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When most...
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Apr 26, 20128 min read
Learning about the woods: places to go, things to see . . .
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Cathy Goslin vividly remembers a first grader visiting the re-created lumbering...
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Mar 27, 20127 min read
Where the wood flows . . . and why
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer You’re driving down a Maine highway, following a logging truck that’s teetering and...
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Feb 26, 20126 min read
Land conservation: still going strong
Despite the down economy, landowners and the public are still eager to ensure the future of Maine’s forest By Joe Rankin Forests for...
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Jan 25, 20126 min read
The modern sawmill: a high tech marvel
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Watching the edger-optimizer at Robbins Lumber Co.’s pine mill in Searsmont induces,...
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Dec 21, 20116 min read
Forest products: it’s not all about logs
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer As a young boy in the 1940s Richard Nadeau frequently spent time in the remote lumber...
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Nov 23, 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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Oct 27, 20118 min read
Aging forest owners: What will become of their woods?
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Jim walked slowly up the path, as he had done ten thousand times before. Almost every day...
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Sep 27, 201110 min read
A forest stewardship state of mind
Allen Higgins and Josiah Pierce talk about caring for the land By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Allen “Higmo” Higgins,...
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Aug 25, 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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Jul 27, 20117 min read
Exotic forest pests: the danger is real
Fresh from the Woods By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer June 2011 Around the turn of the last century a serial killer...
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Jun 30, 20117 min read
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