The Maine Monitor interviewed Adam Daigneault, director of the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, on recent multimillion-dollar investments and forest product manufacturing and how they support the logging industry. “The more that we can make that is closer to a finished product, the more value we can get out of the woods that […]
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Angela Mech, associate professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, received the Maine Forest Products Council’s 2025 Abby Holman Public Service Award in recognition of her passion, loyalty and dedication to Maine’s forest products industry, government and economy. As director of UMaine’s Spruce Budworm Processing Lab, Mech has led research to support the […]
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Bence Rosenberg, a parks, recreation and tourism major from Morristown, New Jersey, knew he wanted to attend the University of Maine after discovering its outdoor recreation program. During his time at UMaine, he has turned a love of the outdoors into a profession in progress. “I like being outside,” Rosenberg said. “I had an adviser […]
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Vermont Public highlighted new funding awarded to John Daigle, professor of forest recreation management at the University of Maine, for his work supporting indigenous forest research in the Northeast. Daigle explained that his team studies ash trees used in traditional Wabinaki basket weaving, examining characteristics such as bark, branches, and growth rings, to identify the […]
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Lindsey Rustad, a faculty associate with the University of Maine School of Forest Resources and a retired research ecologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, will present the Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Wildland Soils on Nov. 12 in Salt Lake City. Rustad’s lecture, “A Wilde Challenge: The Art of […]
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Jay Wason, associate professor of forest ecosystem physiology at the University of Maine, was sourced by the Bangor Daily News and Maine Public as an expert to speak toward how drought is affecting fall foliage in Maine. “All that means is that the trees have detected that ‘hey, conditions are not great for me any […]
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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 […]
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Between high school and his graduation from the University of Maine in May, Dustin Hill has changed directions a few times — and led a few different lives by some measures. He has two degrees, two children, a wife and veteran status. “If you could go back and talk to 16/17 year old Dustin, you […]
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Sophia Cameron, a city of Bangor intern who recently earned her master’s degree from the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine, about efforts to protect the city’s ash trees from emerald ash borer. “If we were to do nothing, all of those trees would likely die over the next 10 years,” she said. […]
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It’s late spring, and the leaves on Maine’s maple trees are full – the buds have swelled, and the season for collecting sap is long over. Maine maple sugar producers, like Mark Prentiss and Kim Roberts, are already at work preparing for next year’s sap-collecting season. Prentiss and Roberts, who are married, are co-owners of […]
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