Project Canopy
Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy holiday season!
See you in 2021!
- From all of us at Project Canopy and the Maine Forest Service!
 BDN - When it comes to buying gifts this holiday season, a lot of folks like to shop close to home to support local businesses. If your gifts include anything made from living Maine vegetation, state officials say it’s a good idea to make sure the recipients of those gifts are also local. Sending anything made from living foliage or other botanicals risks the spread of invasive species.
“We have pests here in Maine that other states may not have,” Sarah Scally, assistant state horticulturist with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, said. “And it goes two ways, we can share pests with other states and they can share them with us if we are not careful.” Read more...
 SUN JOURNAL - The Mahoosuc Land Trust (MLT) will soon commence its first harvest on the recently acquired McCoy-Chapman Forest, a 500-acre tract about five miles west of Bethel that runs from the banks of the Androscoggin River to the flanks of the Mahoosuc Range.
The scenic acquisition, which offers year-round recreation, comprises generous land donations from a family that practiced sustainable harvesting on their land for more than two centuries.
“Ginny and Sam McCoy’s careful forest management over decades made the McCoy-Chapman Forest an appropriate place to apply best practices and emerging science on the types of harvesting practices that have true ecological benefits,” said Kirk Siegel, MLT’s executive director. Read more...
 PRESS HERALD - Fat snowflakes are swirling wildly about outside my kitchen window as I write this, and the tall white pines in the yard are swaying to and fro in an alarming arc. The last of the nor’easter sweeping over the Down East coast may leave but a dusting here on Mount Desert Island, but up in the mountains the snow will accumulate in feet.
Given that meteorological winter kicked in on Dec. 1, and astronomical winter – Dec. 21 – is just around the corner, there’s simply no denying that the snowy season is upon us. It’s high time then to shift gears and plan accordingly when it comes to getting out on the trail in the cold weather months ahead. Read more...
 CORNELL - It seems logical that most birds flee the northern regions to overwinter somewhere warmer, such as the tropics. Their feat of leaving their homes, navigating and negotiating often stupendous distances twice a year, indicates their great necessity of avoiding the alternative—of staying and enduring howling snowstorms and subzero temperatures.
However, some birds stay and face the dead of winter against seemingly insurmountable odds. That they can and do invites our awe and wonder, for it requires solving two problems simultaneously. Read more...
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Licensed Arborists: Consider offering your Browntail management services this winter
The browntail moth population created many problems for Maine residents this year and continues to spread inland; the northern leading edge currently extends from Vassalboro to Belfast. One of the most effective ways to control the spread is by pruning and destroying the winter webs. Pruning is especially effective in areas away from the heaviest concentration of browntail and in sensitive locations along the coast or near organic farms.
The Maine Forest Service compiles a list of arborists for hire who are willing to prune winter webs of browntail moth. We use this to inform residents who contact us looking for such services. If you are already on the list, you do not need to fill out the survey again. If you are on the current list of arborists but would like to be removed, email Amy.L.Emery@maine.gov to be removed.
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Please fill out the survey by Wednesday, December 23.
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