An investigation has been opened into the death Baxter, 3, a Chocolate Labrador retriever who was found dead inside a state ...

Residents in one Ocean County community are fighting to save their woods. They say it’s the last piece of protected green space in the community. The community is trying to save the over 100-year-old ...

On a trip to Maine’s Mount Desert Island, Dinaw Mengestu and his family had an ambitious, high-energy itinerary that included ...

It’s hard for me to understand how gutting ‘America’s best idea’ isn’t America’s worst idea,” said Sen. Angus King.

Even moving firewood from within Maine can spread damaging pests. Tree-killing pests and diseases move in and on firewood. On August 31, 2010 the Director of the Division of Forestry, pursuant to the ...

Hazy skies and poor air quality have been impacting Maine in recent weeks due to massive fires burning in Canada. The fire season continues to break records there with more smoke likely to head over ...

Each forest type listed on the map is presented where it most frequently occurs within its native range. The tree type map is color ... type map of Lodgepole Pine. The forest cover type ...

Late last year a team of ecologists came to a dire conclusion: without new conservation and management initiatives, half of the oldest forests in Maine’s unorganized territory could be gone in the ...

Through photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, storing it in their trunks. According to the Maine governor's Forest Carbon Task Force, the North Woods remove at least 60% of ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst ... several images of parts of pinyon pine. The tree is a conifer and the lineal taxonomy is ...

hemlock and white pine. A new state law requires Maine woodland owners to report contracts they've entered with forest carbon offset programs. University of Maine forest resources professor Adam ...