As a cadre of Maine foresters and ecologists shuffled down the sun-baked roads of Surry Forest on Wednesday they were faced with the same sweltering heat they are trying to prepare Maine’s coastal ...

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The nation’s most heavily forested state, Maine is likely to be in for a rude awakening in forestry within the next 20 to 100 years, state specialists predict.

With advocates like Sen. Collins, the Maine delegation and Gov. Mills (and with a highly targeted early intervention strategy) we can keep Maine’s forests healthy while protecting our rural economy.

• 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...