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For This Wood Pellet Manufacturer, Small is Beautiful
Erik Carlson remembers exactly where he was when he got the idea of getting into the wood pellet manufacturing business. It was September...
Oct 21, 20165 min read
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...
Sep 21, 20165 min read
Climate Change, Drought, and the Northern Forest
By Joe Rankin, published August 2016 Much of the southern half of Maine is dry. Really dry. Lawns brown. Gardens struggling. Wells drying...
Aug 17, 20165 min read
Spruce Budworm Population Tracked by Landowners Across Northeast Pheremone Traps Help to Gather Data
Brett Mitchell has a vested interest in keeping tabs on the population of spruce budworm moths — he and his son own a 45-acre Christmas...
Jul 19, 20165 min read
What is a healthy forest?
By JOE RANKIN You’re in a store, say, and you look around you at the other patrons. Can you tell who is healthy? For a few, maybe. For...
Jun 17, 20165 min read
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...
May 20, 20164 min read
Forestry for the birds
By JOE RANKIN, Forests for Maine’s Future Writer In 1962 Rachel Carson’s classic enviro-expose Silent Spring was published, laying out...
Mar 27, 20158 min read
Mechanical harvesting — The future is here
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer You could tell where George Merrill was working by the muted growl of the machinery. We...
Feb 23, 20157 min read
The white pine, enduring symbol of the Maine woods
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer What’s not to like about the eastern white pine? A majestic tree. Long-lived. Producer of...
Dec 22, 20147 min read
Bright spots in Maine’s forest products industry
New mills, investments and products help offset losses in some sectors By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When Verso Paper...
Nov 24, 20146 min read
Southern Maine’s Future Forest
Factors at play today will help create the woods of the 22nd century By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When Verso Paper Co....
Oct 27, 20148 min read
Urban Forests — More Important Now Than Ever
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future writer It’s perhaps fitting that the largest city in the most forested state in the nation...
Aug 26, 20148 min read
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