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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...
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
Winter: A Time to get to know your Forest Neighbors by their Tracks
There’s something about the winter woods — the profound silence, the sheer whiteness. Snow whispering through the branches of the firs or...
Jan 23, 20175 min read
“Old Growth” Forests Defined by Key Ecological Characteristics
By JOE RANKIN There is something about big trees that stirs up a feeling of awe in us. And when those trees grow together in an old...
Dec 20, 20166 min read
Maine’s Most Common Tree, a Favorite of Deer and Pests
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future writer Quickly now. This is a quiz. What is the most common tree species in Maine? You might...
Nov 22, 20166 min read
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