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Supporting the Forests We Cherish

December 1, 2020 By Anna

Maine's autumn foliage, looking up from the forest floor with the sunlight streaming through the colorful leaves.

  Maine is lucky to have so many remote and untrammeled places where we can recreate and enjoy nature. FSM’s mission is to help keep these forests as forests. This is only possible through the generosity of hundreds of people each year. Many of us have spent time outdoors these past … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Uncategorized

Ferns & Forests: Family Connections to the Maine Woods

November 28, 2020 By Anna

Ferns growing between some rocks.

Based on an interview with longtime FSM supporter Craig Mathews May 2020 As a young boy roaming the thick forests, damp fields, and shaded streams and gullies around his family’s farm in northern Maine, Craig Mathews discovered that oak ferns grow where it’s wet, while hayscented ferns are found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Monson

Capturing the Grafton Landscape

October 22, 2020 By Anna

Sunrise over the Swift Cambridge River looking east over Popple Dam Rd in Grafton Township, Maine. Photo by Jerry Monkman, EcoPhotography.

Article originally published in the 2020 fall edition of Forest View, FSM's biannual newsletter. Sometimes the best way to depict the essence of a place is not with words but with images. That is why photographer Jerry Monkman can be found waiting on a mountain summit before dawn with multiple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, News

American History in Coburn Gore

June 26, 2020 By Anna

The Forest Society of Maine has a unique opportunity to conserve land in western Maine that is not only scenic and ecologically valuable, but is also known for being an American Battlefield of the Revolution. Coburn Gore Forest, bordered on three sides by Quebec, is the site of the last leg of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: Coburn Gore

Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge

June 25, 2020 By Anna

This story first appeared in the 2020 spring edition of Forest View, FSM’s biannual newsletter.  The Forest Society of Maine is working with a forestland owner to conserve 21,300 acres in the Grafton region. The Grafton Forest project is supported by many partners in the region:  local land … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: Grafton

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Featured Posts

Maine's autumn foliage, looking up from the forest floor with the sunlight streaming through the colorful leaves.

Supporting the Forests We Cherish

  Maine is lucky to have so many remote and untrammeled places … [Read More...]

Ferns growing between some rocks.

Ferns & Forests: Family Connections to the Maine Woods

Based on an interview with longtime FSM supporter Craig Mathews May … [Read More...]

Sunrise over the Swift Cambridge River looking east over Popple Dam Rd in Grafton Township, Maine. Photo by Jerry Monkman, EcoPhotography.

Capturing the Grafton Landscape

Article originally published in the 2020 fall edition of Forest View, … [Read More...]

Want the Trail to Yourself? Try Exploring Easements

Summer 2020 will be anything but ordinary. With some indoor activities … [Read More...]

FSM’s Latest Blog Posts

  • Supporting the Forests We Cherish December 1, 2020
  • Ferns & Forests: Family Connections to the Maine Woods November 28, 2020
  • Capturing the Grafton Landscape October 22, 2020

Maine Forests & Carbon

Maine’s Forests Reduce Carbon Pollution Most of us can point to tangible ways in which our … Read More...

Your land trust for Maine’s North Woods

Forest Society of Maine conserves Maine's forestlands in a manner that sustains their ecological, economic, cultural, and recreational values.

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115 Franklin St., 3rd Floor,
Bangor, Maine 04401
(207) 945-9200
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