When deer yards disappear so do the deer
deer wintering areas disappear and then the deer do too
Category Archives: Forestry
Maine’s Forest Products Industry Is Not Dead
Secondary-Wood-Manufacturing-in-Maine Maine’s forest products industry is not dead, and you don’t have to take my word for it. An excellent report on our state’s secondary wood manufacturing economy is now available. The subtitle of the report says it all: $1.8 billion industry is ‘almost invisible.’ The first article, by Roberta Scruggs, Communications Director for the […]
Audubon speech covers everything from moose deaths to our outdoor heritage
Audubon speech covers lots of outdoor issues and opportunities
Beechnuts and Bears – a Great Story
Crawling into a deep dark hole of a bear’s den is scary!
We’re losing lots of forests and farmland
New England lost an average of 24,000 acres of forest and farmland each year from 1990 to 2010, while public funding for conservation dropped by 50% between 2008 and 2010. My thanks for Lloyd Irland for sharing this information and report with me. Here’s what Lloyd had to say, followed by a link to the […]
Ninja Turtle playground was a great wish!
Four-year-old Derek Wilson knew just what he wanted for his Make-A- Wish request: a Ninja Turtle lair. Make-A-Wish Maine is dedicated to granting wishes for children with serious, life-threatening illnesses. Derek was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014 and has been in treatment ever since. Make-A-Wish’s Senior Program Director Kate Vickery knew just who to turn […]
Maine aggressively fights invasive plants but not fish and wildlife.
Maine is aggressively fighting invasive plants and insects, but not wild animals and fish, like this northern pike. And I think that’s too bad. This recent quote from Doug Denico, Director of Maine’s Forestry Bureau, got my attention: “The Maine Forest Service, Public Lands and the Natural Areas Program have joined with the Bureau of […]
“Woman Who Speaks Tree” is a great read
Yes, Linda Tatelbaum loves trees. But the subtitle of her wonderful book, Woman Who Speaks Tree, “Confessions of a Tree Hugger,” tells you even more about her life. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Linda’s life could be described as a contradiction: she’s a college professor and a back-to-the-land hippie who, […]
Michigan funds deer habitat improvements on private lands
I have to thank a friend of Maine’s outdoors for sharing this story. Ed Meadows served for a time as Commissioner of Maine’s Department of Conservation before moving to Michigan where he served as the Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which includes fish and wildlife programs. Ed’s back in Maine and […]
There’s a lot more going on in Maine’s forests than you know about
The Pine Tree Camp on North Pond in Rome hosted a fantastic SWOAM/Maine Tree Farm Forestry Field Day on September 10, and I was very glad I decided to attend. I thought I knew a lot about what’s going on in our forests, including the programs and projects […]
