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Maine’s public lands: recreation, wildlife habitat, timber
These parcels aren’t as well known as the state’s parks, but that’s changing By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer When most...
Hope Light
Apr 26, 20128 min read
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Learning about the woods: places to go, things to see . . .
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Cathy Goslin vividly remembers a first grader visiting the re-created lumbering...
Hope Light
Mar 27, 20127 min read
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Where the wood flows . . . and why
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer You’re driving down a Maine highway, following a logging truck that’s teetering and...
Hope Light
Feb 26, 20126 min read
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Land conservation: still going strong
Despite the down economy, landowners and the public are still eager to ensure the future of Maine’s forest By Joe Rankin Forests for...
Hope Light
Jan 25, 20126 min read
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The modern sawmill: a high tech marvel
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Watching the edger-optimizer at Robbins Lumber Co.’s pine mill in Searsmont induces,...
Hope Light
Dec 21, 20116 min read
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Forest products: it’s not all about logs
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer As a young boy in the 1940s Richard Nadeau frequently spent time in the remote lumber...
Hope Light
Nov 23, 20118 min read
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Once and Future Uses of Wood
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer In the mid-’60s Eric Sloane wrote “A Reverence for Wood,” a tribute to the importance of...
Hope Light
Oct 27, 20118 min read
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Aging forest owners: What will become of their woods?
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Jim walked slowly up the path, as he had done ten thousand times before. Almost every day...
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Sep 27, 201110 min read
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A forest stewardship state of mind
Allen Higgins and Josiah Pierce talk about caring for the land By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer Allen “Higmo” Higgins,...
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Aug 25, 20117 min read
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Penobscot Experimental Forest: Six decades of science
July 2011 By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer On a recent summer day, while showing a visitor around the Penobscot...
Hope Light
Jul 27, 20117 min read
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Exotic forest pests: the danger is real
Fresh from the Woods By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future Writer June 2011 Around the turn of the last century a serial killer...
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Jun 30, 20117 min read
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Bernd Heinrich: Writer, academic, Maine forestland owner
Fresh from the Woods Bernd Heinrich: Writer, academic, Maine forestland owner May 2011 It’s easy to see what makes Bernd Heinrich one of...
Hope Light
May 31, 201112 min read
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