Maine receives federal grant to boost innovation of forest-based products
Maine is receiving an additional $22 million from the federal government to support forest-based biomaterial production and ...
Mainers headed to Los Angeles to help fight wildfires
A team of Maine forest rangers and volunteer firefighters are headed to California to help fight the devastating wildfires in ...
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$13M will support forest management, conservation in Maine
Maine’s abundance of natural resources includes 17.6 million acres of forestland that covers 89% of the land area, making it largest contiguous forest east of the Mississippi River.
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$4.3 million grant secured to protect Maine's oldest forests
The Appalachian Mountain Club, a conservation group ... more carbon dioxide than the average wooded acre in Maine’s commercial forests. Giffen said that alongside conservation efforts, the ...
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Opinion: Maine must remain vigilant in protecting its forests
During the last severe outbreak in the 1970s and 1980s, the spruce budworm infestation caused widespread tree mortality across 7 million acres of Maine’s forest. It cost our economy hundreds of ...
Planned timber harvests in the Whites are not a threat to true ‘old growth’ forests
Can the White Mountain National Forest protect old-growth forest and provide a sustainable source of wood? We are a ...