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Opinion: Climate-smart forestry can grow Maine’s bioeconomy

Jul. 31, 2024

Realizing the carbon benefits of forests requires a systems approach, combining ecological and climate objectives. Author: Andrea Colnes is deputy director and climate fellow at the New England…

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Pilot program will pay Maine’s big forest owners to increase carbon storage

Jul. 11, 2024

Penelope Overton The foundation estimates the 12,000 enrolled acres have the potential to store an additional 250,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide through the adoption of climate-smart practices.…

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Commentary: Mass timber makes sense for new building in Maine

Jun. 16, 2023

The Portland Museum of Art is throwing its weight behind a new category of wood product that easy on the environment. Last week, the Portland Museum of Art was awarded $300,000 by the U.S.…

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Commentary: New England forests can sustain our climate and biodiversity – if we work together

Mar. 10, 2023

Take a moment to imagine a New England in the not-too-distant future where vast and wondrous wildlands and exemplary managed woodlands together support thriving wildlife populations, sustain rural…

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Commentary: Maine’s forests can protect our global climate, grow our local economy

Dec. 17, 2022

Forest management as a climate-mitigation tool was on top of the discussion list as the world gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27 climate talks. Maine’s vast acres of working forest…

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USDA to fund push to store carbon in New England forests

Sep. 15, 2022

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding a major push to try to store more carbon in New England’s forests. The agency said Wednesday that the New England Climate-Smart Forest Partnership…

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Owners of Maine’s carbon-sponge forests asked to do more to blunt climate change

Sep. 26, 2021

WHITEFIELD — Dappled sunlight illuminated the forest floor where Tony Marple had thinned a thick stand of aspen, oak, birch and maple two winters ago. The land had been clearcut by a former owner…

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Hiking in Maine: Here’s your tour guide for so many hikes and climbs in and around Augusta

Jul. 4, 2021

The Kennebec Land Trust puts out a hiking guide with everything you need to enjoy 32 preserves and 54 miles of trails in the trust’s working region. Just 6 miles separate the hubbub of downtown…

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Maine Voices: Saving threatened wildlife should involve private landowners

Sep. 9, 2019

The best way to protect endangered species is to work with owners of the land on which they live. BY AMOS ENO