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2025 Spruce Budworm EIS Treatment Program 100% Complete

Source: Maine Forest Service The Maine Budworm Response Coalition (MBRC), comprised of timberland owners and managers in Maine, successfully advocated for emergency funding to oversee and implement the Early Intervention Strategy (EIS) methods to reduce the rising SBW populations and protect the health of our forest ecosystems and resources, maintain wildlife habitat, and prevent impacts

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Maine Public: Northern Maine braces for spruce budworm outbreak

View full story at Maine Public here. About 50 years ago, a legendary spruce budworm outbreak devastated Maine’s North Woods. The native caterpillars devoured millions of acres of spruce and fir trees and left behind a vast landscape of skeletal trunks. The infestation lasted more than a decade, sparked a massive aerial pesticide campaign and

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BDN Opinion: Maine’s forests are vulnerable to wildfires and a spruce budworm outbreak

This column was featured by the BDN. Patty Cormier is the Maine state forester. Robby Gross is Maine’s chief forest ranger. Both work for the Maine Forest Service, which is part of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Wildfires are devastating, significantly impacting economies, communities and property. Extreme weather events and intensifying weather patterns

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$14 Million to Combat Spruce Budworm in Maine and New Hampshire Forests Secured by Senator Collins in Disaster Relief Bill

Funding would help treat nearly 300,000 acres of Maine forests and prevent further spread Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that she has secured $14 million to help combat the spread of spruce budworm in Maine forests in disaster relief legislation that was released last night.  The

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PPH: Budworms ravaged Maine’s forests for years. They’re starting to come back.

An aerial survey confirmed 3,000 acres of Maine’s forest were damaged by spruce budworm in July. Modeling indicates 178,000 acres are at risk of defoliation from budworm larvae that will emerge next spring. A spruce budworm outbreak has plagued Maine’s northern borders for nearly two decades, with the tree-killing moths making sporadic incursions from Quebec

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USFWS: New Resource Provides Guidance for Wood-turtle Friendly Forest Management

Guidance results from unprecedented public-private partnership in support of proactive species conservation on working forestlands The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO), and the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI) have released a new resource that provides guidance for forest managers to support wood turtles on their

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Maine Department of Labor Publishes Paid Family Medical Leave Rules for Public Comment

For Immediate Release: May 20, 2024 Maine Department of Labor Publishes Paid Family Medical Leave Rules for Public Comment The Department will accept comments through July 8 AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Labor has published proposed rules for Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Program, which is now available for comments from the

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