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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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PublishedMay 22, 2021
Commentary: An immediate solution to 50% emissions reduction stands all around us
Modern wood heat lowers emissions, keeps money local, creates jobs and supports forest stewardship.
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PublishedMay 17, 2021
Spike in lumber prices not helping most Maine wood suppliers
Unless more sawmills come on line, the huge jump in prices for building materials likely won't filter down to wood suppliers in Maine.
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PublishedApril 30, 2021
Creation of a Maine Forest Advisory Board draws sharp comments from both sides
A bill to form a Maine Forest Advisory Board stirs diverse views as Legislature weighs the idea.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2021
Bill seeks to ban the use of aerial herbicides in Maine forests
Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, a logger and the bill's sponsor, said aerial application of glyphosate and other herbicides has caused irreversible environmental damage.