UMaine Sponsors Tree Tour of Historic Portland Cemetery
Contact: Amy Witt, 207-780-4205 or 800-287-1471 (in Maine)
PORTLAND, Me. — Ken Canfield, district forester with the Maine Forest Service, will lead a tree tour of the historic and beautiful Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, on Friday June 8 from 10 a.m. to noon.
The tour is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is requested: call the University of Maine Cooperative Extension office in Cumberland County at 800-287-1471 (in Maine) or 207-780-4205 before Monday, June 4.
This tour is an organized outing of the Maine Tree Club, an educational outreach program established by UMaine Extension, the Maine Forest Service, and the Pine Tree State Arboretum. The club is designed to teach people young and old how to identify 50 trees of Maine, over a two-year period.
Evergreen Cemetery, at 672 Stevens Avenue, was bought by the City of Portland in 1854 when this property was in Westbrook. The active cemetery is around 100 acres and the accompanying woodlands comprise about 130 acres. The cemetery contains a large number of old sugar maples, white oak, European beech and some very large hemlock. The woodlands contain a wide variety of species, including a 30′ American chestnut.