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...]
Ferns & Forests: Family Connections to the Maine Woods
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...]
Capturing the Grafton Landscape
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...]
Want the Trail to Yourself? Try Exploring Easements
Summer 2020 will be anything but ordinary. With some indoor activities restricted or closed, many landowners and managers across Maine are reporting a higher-than-average number of visitors to their hiking trails, parks, and preserves. Fortunately, the Moosehead Lake region has an abundance of … [Read more...]
American History in Coburn Gore
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...]
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