Maine Monitor highlights UMaine collaboration with Blue Hill Heritage Trust
The Maine Monitor highlighted the collaboration between the University of Maine and Blue Hill Heritage Trust since 2017 to restore red spruce to Surry Forest. Jay Wason, a UMaine associate professor of forest ecosystem physiology, is spearheading the project, and a UMaine graduate student in the school of forest resources, Rose Gellman, published a forest management guide as part of the project. “A lot of the places that had red spruce along the coast of Maine don’t have it anymore for a variety of land use and management reasons,” Wason said. “We want to better understand where red spruce is along the coast of Maine and what its current condition is.” The Associated Press, News Center Maine and Seacoastonline shared the report from the Maine Monitor.