Do you own or manage a small woodland property in Maine? Maine Woodland Owners was incorporated in 1975 as a nonprofit organization by a group of nonindustrial woodland owners to assist each other in learning how to manage their woodlands. Their goal is to help each other deal with the challenges that small woodland owners […]
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The three decade assessment of climate-associated changes in forest composition study by CRSF-affiliated researchers Dr. Arun Bose (WSL Intitute), Dr. Aaron Weiskittel (UMaine), and Dr. Robert Wagner (Purdue University) published in the Journal of Applied Ecology has been receiving plenty of coverage in the national press. Washington Post Newsweek North Country Public Radio Boston.com
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The Eastern CANUSA Forest Science Conference has just released the Proceedings of the 8th Eastern CANUSA Forest Science Conference. The conference was focused on the many stressors and agents of change converging on the region’s forests. Scientists and practitioners from a large spectrum of expertise made presentations on research, monitoring, management and outreach activities to address the many […]
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It’s time for Maine’s forest products industry to reinvent itself. Here’s how. By Yellow Light Breen and Patrick Strauch, Special to the BDN Posted Jan. 19, 2017, at 8:42 a.m. Maine’s forest products industry finds itself in an unusual position. Instead of having markets for every part of the tree, we’ve seen a 25 percent […]
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