The Pine Tree Amendment would help protect these natural places by making the right to clean air, clean water and a healthy environment part of the Maine constitution.

WATERBORO, Maine — The state's widespread fires of 1947 and a planned but failed housing development in the 1970s could not kill off the 3,000 acres of mostly pitch pine trees and brush here.

Flag design involves vivid and uncomplicated imagery – think of the American flag itself – and by that standard the Pine Tree Flag is superior.

The Maine Legislature will vote very soon on L.D. 489, the Pine Tree Amendment. This constitutional amendment would guarantee the people of Maine the right to clean air and water and a healthy ...

The Pine Tree Amendment has been the focus of a public hearing and a work session and now faces a vote by the full Maine Legislature.It would add the following language to our state constitution ...

This Sept. 20, 2013, photo provided by the USDA Forest Service shows a southern pine beetle completing metamorphosis into an adult that will attack a pine tree at Kisatchie National Forest in ...

To early Euro-Americans, Maine simply was forest; an attraction for those whose homelands were increasingly short of trees. Early colonists reveled in seemingly limitless firewood and wrote ...

A Maine forest offers decades of data on the ability of trees to remove carbon from the air. ... hemlock and white pine. ... The average tree stand in the Howland Forest is 140-years old.

A little-known raw material used in the most widely used antiviral flu medicine comes from the fruit of trees native to China. It turns out it also comes from pine trees in Maine’s backyard.

The Kennebec Historical Society’s March Facebook Live presentation “Maine’s Big Trees” is planned for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17. Jan Santerre will be the speaker. Since 1968, the Maine ...

Today, the state champion white pine grows in Sumner, and stands 105 feet above the forest floor. It’s appropriately represented in the “naturalistic” design chosen by Bellows, by Gardiner ...