Nip Impressions profiled Alia Parsons, a University of Maine senior in chemical engineering with a minor in business administration and a concentration in pulp and paper management, about her college experience and support from with the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation, which provides scholarships to engineering and forestry students pursuing careers in the […]
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Atmos interviewed Aaron Weiskittel, director of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests at the University of Maine, for an article about whether climate change may bring wildfires to the northeastern U.S. “New England has a lot of forests that can potentially burn and create conditions similar to what we see in the western U.S. […]
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A number of University of Maine students and faculty members will present at the 2023 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 30. UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is the lead organizer of the event. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage. Session […]
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Timber Harvesting & Forest Operations noted the University of Maine’s role in a $10 million grant to Purdue University led project called PERSEUS (Promoting Economic Resilience and Sustainability of the Eastern U.S. Forests) designed to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern U.S. Aaron […]
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In an article about the Future Logging Careers Act, which would allow family logging companies to safely train 16- and 17-year-olds, MaineBiz cited a study conducted by the University of Maine found that the total number of jobs in the logging industry in Maine declined 6% more than the national average between 2014 and 2021.
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The Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force, formed in summer 2013 by the University of Maine Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (CFRU), Maine Forest Service (MFS), and Maine Forest Products Council (MFPC) to begin preparing for the next outbreak of the eastern spruce budworm, has released an update to its 2016 Task Force report. “The work of […]
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The New York Times featured University of Maine research into cross-laminated timber. Liam O’Brien, a UMaine graduate student, spoke with the Times about an effort by him and his colleagues to develop a cross-laminated timber panel insulated with wood fiber. “It is a material that should take off in the U.S. as long as we […]
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In an article about the impact of the dwindling cedar supply on logging in Maine, the Bangor Daily News cited a University of Maine report that found that even though Maine logging industry contributed an estimated $582 million to the state economy in 2021, certain factors — operational costs that nearly doubled, mills that closed, […]
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Maine Public reported on a forest modeling study conducted by researchers from the University of Maine, the New England Forestry Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service. The study shows that Maine’s commercial forest landowners could increase annual carbon storage by at least 20% over the next 60 years while maintaining timber harvest levels. The findings […]
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In an article about Maine loggers leaving the industry, Maine Public cited a new University of Maine study that found the state’s logging industry supported fewer jobs and generated less economic output and labor income in 2021, compared to the five years prior.
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