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Maine TREE welcomes Lena Ives as Director of Education
Maine TREE is excited to welcome Lena Ives as its new director of education. This position is responsible for sustaining and expanding...
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Appalachian Mountain Club Brings Green Jobs to Piscataquis County Classroom
After completing a climate change unit, middle school students from Sedomocha and Piscataquis Secondary School were excited to see what...
Feb 12, 20222 min read
Sanford Pleasant River Mill Tour – Maine TREE and Sanford High School JMG
SANFORD – This past month, Maine TREE partnered with Sanford High School JMG (formerly known as Jobs for Maine Graduates) to support an...
Nov 21, 20212 min read
University of Maine Students Participate in PLT Workshop
OLD TOWN, Maine – Maine TREE is always eager to support and help facilitate Project Learning Tree workshops, and we were thrilled to work...
Oct 21, 20212 min read
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust Holds Summer Day Camp at Holt Research Forest
During the winter of 2020 – 2021, Maine TREE completed a timber harvest at the Holt Research Forest, which opened the doors for an...
Sep 2, 20212 min read
Celebrating the 2021 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tour
This July, we brought over 40 teachers from around Maine into the woods to teach them about the importance of Maine’s forests for our...
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Join the team at Maine TREE!
We are seeking someone excited about nature-based education with a focus on Maine’s forests, both urban and rural. The successful...
Jul 28, 20211 min read
2021 Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tour Underwriters Announced
Robbins Lumber and Pleasant River Lumber Headline Growing List of Supporters Maine TREE is proud to announce that Robbins Lumber and...
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tour to Return for In-person in 2021
The Maine Timber Research and Environmental Education Foundation (Maine TREE) nationally acclaimed Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours will...
Apr 10, 20212 min read
Connecting Maine Youth to Forest-based Careers
At Maine TREE, we are ready to help teachers, and other organizational leaders, engage with middle and high school students to explore...
Mar 16, 20211 min read
Engaging Learners with Forest-Based Activities
A series of interactive 30-minute workshops geared to provide fresh tips, tricks, and tools for educators. Drawing from the...
Feb 28, 20211 min read
Mt. Ararat Students Use Maine TREE Protocols to Analyze Forest Growth
Photo Courtesy of Kevin Doran This fall, students of Mr. Glenn Evans’ sophomore Honors Biology class at Mt. Ararat High School in...
Feb 18, 20212 min read
Virtual Adaptations of Your Favorite Project Learning Tree Activities
For educators in our Maine Project Learning Tree network, there are some digital versions for many of your favorite activities now...
Dec 15, 20201 min read
Video: Introducing “Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers” Educators Guide
This introductory video for educators, guidance counselors, and school leaders, hear from Maine TREE and its award-winning Project...
Nov 20, 20203 min read
Barry Burgason Awarded the Maine Project Learning Tree Stewardship Award
Every year, Maine TREE selects a partner with the Project Learning Tree program to be recognized with the Stewardship Award. This year,...
Nov 9, 20202 min read
Maine Project Learning Tree Volunteers Provide Workshop for Bangor Region YMCA
On Wednesday, August 26, In our first in-person public event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine TREE and Maine Project...
Sep 21, 20202 min read
Maine TREE welcomes Tom Mullin as Maine Project Learning Tree Associate
Maine TREE Foundation is pleased to announce that we have brought a well-known name in forest education onto our team on an interim basis...
Sep 21, 20201 min read
50 Educators Participate in Window to the Woods
Maine Timber Research & Environmental Education’s (Maine TREE) first public online course connected over 50 teachers, land trust staff,...
Aug 18, 20202 min read
Maine TREE says Farewell
On July 31st, Maine TREE celebrated the last day of Executive Director, Henry Whittemore, and Maine Project Learning Tree Coordinator,...
Aug 18, 20201 min read
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