The University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources recently finished an innovative remote sensing application for the town of Orland. The Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Programs’ aerial monitoring team produced a high-resolution orthophoto — an aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected to have a uniform scale — and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) analysis for […]
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The spring 2017 mini-symposium featured short, 8-10 minute talks by some of UMaine’s graduate and Honors students working on aspects of “agriculture and climate change”, broadly defined in this context to encompass related topics in agriculture, aquaculture, and the environment. To view or download a copy of each presentation, click the presentation’s title. The February […]
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The Maine forest products industry has been a part of Walker Day’s life for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the small western Maine town of Lovell, Day watched as his father and grandfather spent the majority of their professional careers in forestry. “They both had a very big impact on how […]
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A partnership between the University of Maine and a federal Economic Development Assessment Team (EDAT) is working to revive the state’s forest products industry, wrote U.S. Sen. Angus King in a Seacoast Online commentary, and the Portland Press Herald in a feature story and accompanying sidebar piece. In his commentary, King noted an EDAT report, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on U.S. Sen. Angus King’s recent visit to the University of Maine to help announce a partnership between the university and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Tennessee-based lab has committed to help researchers at UMaine tackle the future of bio-based materials, including nanocellular technology, biofuels and additive […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reports U.S. Sen. Angus King will be at the University of Maine Friday to help announce a forest bio-based manufacturing partnership between the university and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During his visit, King will receive a private briefing on the project and tour the Alfond Advanced Manufacturing Lab for Structural Thermoplastics. The […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), Mainebiz, Woodworking Network and The Free Press reported on newly announced federal funding that will help members of the Maine Forest Economy Growth Initiative begin implementing strategies to strengthen and diversify Maine’s valued forest economy. At a press conference in Passadumkeag, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WVII (Channel 7) covered the release of the Maine Forest Economy Growth Initiative’s report, “Recommendations to Strengthen and Diversify Maine’s Forest Industry and Rural Economies.” In the report, the coalition unveiled nine priorities to be addressed in the next three years. The top priority is to develop a long-term vision […]
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Maine Public reported the death of Maine’s pulp and paper industry is highly exaggerated, according to a preliminary report by Mindy Crandall, an assistant professor of Forest Management and Economics at the University of Maine. Crandall told those attending a Forest Resources Association meeting in Brewer that despite the closing of eight major biomass power […]
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The use of residual forest biomass for rural development faces economic hurdles that make it unlikely to be a job source in the near future, according to an Oregon State University analysis led by a University of Maine researcher. The study, published in Forest Policy and Economics, focused on biomass generated during timber-harvesting operations. It […]
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