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Forestry Field Day at Wicopy Woods
Maine Tree Farm Chair, Randy Lagasse, presents Drs. Bob Seymour and Jessica Leahy the 2020 Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year a plaque...
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Oct 21, 20213 min read
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CLP Mike Thurlow’s Team on the Run!
MILLINOCKET, Maine – CLP Logger Mike Thurlow of Lee is looking to make a difference for Make – A – Wish Foundation by running half of the...
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Oct 21, 20212 min read
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CLP Logger/Forester from Rumford wins Game of Logging
GOL Competitors and Judges photo (back row L to R) Mike Thurlow -judge, Steve Tatko-judge, John Grignon, Steve Laweryson -judge, Chris...
Hope Light
Oct 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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2021 Holt Research Forest Interns
Holt Research Forest Summer 2021 Research Team (left to right): Andrew, Noah, Gia, and Jack. Each summer at the Holt Research Forest,...
Hope Light
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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Board Member Barrie Brusila honored as Society of American Foresters District 6 Presidential Field F
Maine TREE would like to congratulate Barrie Brusila, as she was recently announced as Society of American Forester’s (SAF) 2021...
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Sep 1, 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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The Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours are Back In-Person!
After going virtual in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine TREE hosted 21 teachers earlier this month at our first of two Teacher’s...
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Jul 28, 20211 min read
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The 2022 Maine Forestry Field Day is September 12th
After postponing for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maine Tree Farm Program and Maine Woodland Owners are once again...
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Jul 28, 20212 min read
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Forest Stewards Guild Hosts Volunteer Work Day at the Holt Research Forest
By Logan Johnson, Northeast Region Coordinator, Forest Stewards Guild On May 15, Forest Stewards Guild members participated in a joint...
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May 23, 20213 min read
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WATCH: A Harvest at the Holt
In the fall of 2020, a harvest occurred at our Holt Research Forest, a Tree Farm in Arrowsic, Maine. In this video, you will hear from...
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Jan 18, 20211 min read
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REGISTER: Certified Logging Professionals Virtual Banquet
Join Maine TREE’s Certified Logging Professional Program for a virtual banquet on December 4th at 4 PM to recognize CLP’s class of 2020...
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Nov 10, 20201 min read
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Forests For Maine’s Future Celebrates a Decade of Storytelling
By Logan Johnson Forests for Maine’s Future (FMF) began in October of 2010 by publishing 18 stories to FMF’s “Fresh from the Woods...
Hope Light
Oct 23, 20202 min read
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Forestry for the Future: A film introduces forestry to landowners with a 65-year study
By Maren Granstrom *Editor’s note: Forester Maren Granstrom voluntarily submitted this article to Forests for Maine’s Future and Maine...
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Sep 21, 20202 min read
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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...
Hope Light
Sep 21, 20201 min read
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Alan Hutchinson: A Legacy of Forest Landscape
Alan Hutchinson was always thinking. Thinking about ways to approach things differently, to bring people together, to untangle...
Hope Light
Sep 25, 20177 min read
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SFI Project Volunteers Build Two Playhouses for 2017 Make-A-Wish Foundation Recipients
The Maine forest industry’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative has helped out on a lot of community projects over the past decade or so....
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Aug 24, 20175 min read
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Budworm Communications
It’s safe to say that things have changed since the 1970s and 1980s, when the spruce budworm last ravaged the northern Maine woods. The...
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Sep 21, 20165 min read
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Students and Others Prepare for the Next Spruce Budworm Outbreak
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer It’s not every educator who sees a teaching opportunity in a forest-munching nondescript...
Hope Light
May 20, 20164 min read
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