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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...
Hope Light
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...
Hope Light
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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Maine Wood Manufacturers are still an Important Part of the Economy
They produce gun stocks, flooring, cedar shingles, log homes, wooden playsets. They make cigar tips, wooden pack baskets, doors and...
Hope Light
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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Invasive Plants in Maine
There are a lot of threats to Maine forests — fragmentation, poor forestry practices, development, imported and native pests and diseases...
Hope Light
Jan 23, 20184 min read
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Forest Fires in Maine: History and Outlook
This was the year the West burned. The numbers are mind-boggling: By the end of November alone more than 56,000 wildfires had burned 9.1...
Hope Light
Dec 14, 20177 min read
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Maine Heritage Timber: Retrieving Old Growth Wood from a Lake
Tom Shafer’s business is mining trees. It’s not really harvesting; maybe re-harvesting. “Recovering a forgotten forest” is his company...
Hope Light
Nov 20, 20176 min read
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The Forest Understory: Diverse. Dynamic. Difficult
Wild sarsaparilla is not a flashy forest dweller. It doesn’t soar overhead, or have showy blossoms. Or produce copious amounts of fruit...
Hope Light
Oct 27, 20175 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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