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The Whitten Woods will be New Portland's first public land conservation area, and will preserve the land surrounding the region's iconic wire bridge.

A 5,000 acre tract around Eagle Lake in northern Hancock County will be shielded from development.

A $30 million program will help commercial timberland owners manage property to store more greenhouse gasses

Conservation groups joined state and federal officials in Rangeley late last week to celebrate the climate and ecological benefits of a large-scale forest conservation project in western Maine. Its completion also marked a milestone for a federal program that made the project possible.

More than 80% of New England is forested, but only about 4% of that forest is fully protected from development.

A small but growing number of Maine groups have set aside portions of their land and sold credits that require them to lock up a certain amount of carbon in the trees that cover it.

The goal of the program is to remove more carbon from the atmosphere by growing more and better quality wood, verifying the results and building markets for climate-friendly wood products.

At the Howland Research Forest, carbon and other greenhouse gas measurements are continuously recorded from the top of several meteorological towers that soar above a lush canopy of spruce, hemlock and white pine.

Maine is the most heavily forested state in the nation, with trees growing on about 90% of the land here. We’ll discuss the trees themselves, from white…

One in every 24 Maine jobs is in the forest products industry, and it contributes about one in 20 GDP dollars in our state. We’ll examine what the Mills’…