UMaine spruce budworm risk analysis mentioned in BDN report on lumber tariff
A University of Maine spruce budworm risk analysis was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “Many Maine sawmill owners are not cheering Trump’s lumber tariff.” The analysis, provided by Erin Simons-Legaard, an assistant research professor in forest landscape modeling, identified the acreage in each Maine county by susceptibility to a spruce budworm outbreak. The analysis found forests in Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis and Somerset counties had the highest share of at-risk acreage, according to the article.