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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

Click here to view the original article. An early intervention program to guard against the dreaded spruce budworm won’t come cheap, but the cost of doing nothing would be much greater. For thousands of years, the spruce-fir forests of our region have contended with the presence of the spruce budworm. While this native pest is

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

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

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