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Sanford High School Wildlife Biology Class Visits Maine Wildlife Park
by Lindsay Strout – Wildlife Biology Teacher, Sanford High School I want to give a huge thank you to Maine TREE for helping fund Sanford...
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May 25, 20222 min read
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LD 1902: A Resolve To Establish a Pilot Program To Encourage Climate Education in Maine Public Schoo
Since 2020, the Nature Based Education Consortium’s (NBEC) Climate Education (Advocacy Working Group has been committed to expanding the...
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May 25, 20222 min read
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Trees & Me: Activities for Exploring Nature with Young Children
With the continuous evolution of education pedagogy, Project Learning Tree (PLT) is consistently creating and revising curriculum for all...
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May 20, 20222 min read
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Edna Drinkwater School Students Research Climate Change Effects on Local Tree Species
This winter, a 6th-grade science class at Edna Drinkwater School (EDS) in Northport, ME, is diligently investigating the impacts of...
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Mar 12, 20223 min read
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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...
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Feb 13, 20222 min read
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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...
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Feb 12, 20222 min read
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FCCI Webinar and Tour Session at Holt Research Forest
One of the numerous benefits of owning Holt Research Forest (HRF) is the abundance of outreach and educational opportunities Maine TREE...
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Dec 28, 20213 min read
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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...
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Nov 21, 20212 min read
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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...
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Oct 21, 20212 min read
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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...
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Sep 2, 20212 min read
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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...
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Aug 30, 20211 min read
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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...
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Apr 10, 20212 min read
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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...
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Feb 18, 20212 min read
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REGISTER: Tree Farm National Leadership Conference and Landowner Convention
The American Forest Foundation(AFF) is inviting family forest landowners and foresters from across the country to join their 2021...
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Feb 14, 20212 min read
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University Forests: Research, education and income
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer With not quite 14,000 acres, the University Forests aren’t in the big leagues of Maine...
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Mar 20, 20147 min read
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Educating educators about the Maine woods
Teachers’ Tours provide a close up view of the forest and the forest economy By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Wayne...
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Feb 24, 20147 min read
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Good reviews for online forestry program
Woodland Steward Program’s creators ponder how to boost enrollment By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Cory Gardiner’s...
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Feb 24, 20136 min read
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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
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The Forest Bookshelf
The Forest Bookshelf March 2011 By Joe Rankin Today Henry David Thoreau is best remembered for Walden, the account of the time he lived...
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Mar 31, 20118 min read
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Forest Trees of Maine
Fresh from the Woods ‘Possibly … money well spent’ ‘Forest Trees of Maine’ celebrates 100th anniversary in 2008 By Andrew Kekacs A...
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Oct 3, 20104 min read
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