Researchers with the University of Maine are studying how best to manage coastal spruce forests under intensifying heat and ...

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Doak, who serves on the state task force and is a former Maine Forest Service director, said the advanced age of many owners and pending turnover present new possibilities.

• Forest Opportunity Roadmap/Maine, or FOR/Maine, a cross-sector collaboration founded in 2017 between industry, communities, government, education, nonprofits and UMaine to ensure the state ...

Maine Lawmakers Try to Thread the Needle on Forest Protections Late last year a team of ecologists came to a dire conclusion: without new conservation and management initiatives, half of the ...

The eastern spruce budworm is considered to be the most damaging forest insect in North America. The last spruce budworm outbreak lasted from 1967 to 1993, covering 136 million acres across Maine ...

STATE — Returning for its 27th year, Maine businesses and educators have enthusiastically received Maine TREE’s Forests of Maine Teachers’ Tours. Since 1997, Maine TREE’s Forests of Maine ...

Nineteen Maine forestry companies will share $14 million in state grants for a range of improvement projects, Gov. Janet Mills announced. Funding comes from the final round of the $20 million ...

The Maine Forest Products Council warns that there’s also a time constraint for this funding, amid a building budworm outbreak that covers 300,000 acres of Aroostook County's forest.

Parts of the warming Gulf of Maine have become inhospitable for kelp forests, according to new research from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. Between 2001 and 2018, a ...

Biologist Amanda Devine says we've already lost the battle to many aggressive invasives, which she described as the second-largest threat to global biodiversity. (The largest threat? Human ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WHITEFIELD — Dappled sunlight illuminated the forest floor where Tony ...