Forest products
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PublishedDecember 18, 2022
Efforts to restore American chestnut tree raise burning question for food lovers
When do we get to eat the chestnuts? Experts say they are tastier than the Asian and European nuts we import.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2022
Commentary: Maine’s forests can protect our global climate, grow our local economy
We’ve uncovered clear pathways for Maine’s forests to participate in the mitigation of climate change.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2022
Commentary: Don’t be fooled by myths of carbon in Maine, New England wood products
Despite its trendy greenwashed label, the success of lumber and wood products in storing carbon fails miserably to measure up to what living trees do.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2022
USDA to fund push to store carbon in New England forests
The project will include large commercial producers as well as small woodlot owners with a goal of storing more carbon in forests.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2021
Maine Voices: Wood also a solution to Maine’s high heating costs, fossil fuel dependence
The cheapest and most reliable option available for many Mainers, heating with wood now includes modern and highly efficient boilers.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2021
Owners of Maine’s carbon-sponge forests asked to do more to blunt climate change
Two separate efforts are underway to maximize carbon absorption, one for smaller landowners and the other for forest industry heavyweights.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2021
Markets that pay woodland owners to store carbon are complex, controversial
Maine, the nation's most heavily forested state, has been an early participant in so-called carbon offset markets.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2021
Our View: North Maine Woods director helped keep private lands open to public
Al Cowperthwaite has shown how to balance competing views and agendas in Maine’s vast forestland, and we all have benefited.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2021
In northern Maine, forestry practices create shifting habitat for migrating songbirds
Nearly 30 years ago, a team of bird researchers came to conduct the first large-scale study of the impact of commercial forestry on bird populations. Now they're back.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2021
Maine delegation touts launch of logging industry relief program
A $200 million pandemic relief program is opening soon for U.S. logging and log-hauling businesses that have been seriously affected.
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