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FSM Featured in PAWS Trails

February 3, 2021 By Erica

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

When the editor of PawsTrails Explorer magazine approached me about writing an article on the success of working forestland conservation in Maine, it was autumn 2019. The piece finally went live in December 2020. Scrolling through it, that first time, I was struck by all that has happened in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, News

The Bogs of Coburn Gore

January 29, 2021 By Anna

Article originally published in the 2020 fall edition of Forest View, FSM’s biannual newsletter. About 35,000 years ago, a carpet of ice thousands of feet thick covered much of New England. At one point all of Maine was hidden beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet, even the highest points on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: Coburn Gore, western mountains

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

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Featured Posts

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

FSM Featured in PAWS Trails

When the editor of PawsTrails Explorer magazine approached me about … [Read More...]

The Bogs of Coburn Gore

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

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...]

Conserved Lands

  • Alder Stream
  • Amazon – Musquash
  • Amherst Mountains Community Forest (AMCF)
  • Attean Pond
  • Bald Ledge, Bickford Hill, and Bickford Pond
  • Big Spencer Mountain
  • Boundary Headwaters
  • Branch Lake
  • Caribou Bog
  • Chandler Hill
  • Corner Pond
  • Debsconeag Lakes
  • Fourth Machias Lake
  • Haynes Brook
  • Hopkins Pond
  • Greenwood Ponds
  • Gulf Hagas – Whitecap
  • Little Big Wood Pond
  • Mattawamkeag River
  • Monson Pond
  • Moosehead Lake Shoreline
  • Moosehead Region
  • Moose River
  • Nicatous Lake
  • Nickerson Tree Farm
  • No. 5 and No. 6 Mountains
  • Reed Forest
  • Silver Lake – Pleasant River
  • Skitacook Lake
  • Tearmunn Hardwoods
  • Timberdoodle Hill
  • Violette Brook Reservoir
  • West Branch of the Penobscot River
  • York Hill

FSM’s Latest Blog Posts

  • FSM Featured in PAWS Trails February 3, 2021
  • The Bogs of Coburn Gore January 29, 2021
  • Supporting the Forests We Cherish December 1, 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.

Contact Information

 
Main Office
115 Franklin St., 3rd Floor,
Bangor, Maine 04401
(207) 945-9200
info@fsmaine.org

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