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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...
Mar 27, 20186 min read
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...
Feb 27, 20186 min read
Invasive Plants in Maine
There are a lot of threats to Maine forests — fragmentation, poor forestry practices, development, imported and native pests and diseases...
Jan 23, 20184 min read
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...
Dec 14, 20177 min read
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...
Nov 20, 20176 min read
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...
Oct 27, 20175 min read
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...
Sep 25, 20177 min read
North Maine Woods: Managing recreation on a sizable chunk of Maine
How did North Maine Woods get started? There was cooperation among landowners in the region going back to the 1880s. The landowners were...
Jul 25, 20175 min read
Succession: How a forest recreates itself
By Joe Rankin A forest, like all living things, is constantly changing. Sometimes the changes are big and abrupt and obvious and...
Jun 26, 20175 min read
Up and Down: Layers of the Forest
The forest — any forest, really — doesn’t just stretch out across the land like a blanket (or a washcloth if it’s a small patch of...
May 11, 20176 min read
The Eastern U.S.: Just Gotta Be a Forest?
By Joe Rankin Predominantly forested has been the steady state of Maine’s landscape for the vast majority of the last 10,000 years. In...
Mar 23, 20176 min read
Aldo Leopold Week is Celebrated the First Week in March
The party was eating lunch on a high rimrock when they saw the mother wolf come out of the river, shake off the water, and greet her...
Feb 22, 20177 min read
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