Hello again from Forests for Maine's Future.   

Bernd Heinrich is the author of 15 books about nature and forests, including Bumblebee Economics, The Trees in My Forest, The Snoring Bird, and A Year in the Maine Woods. Earlier this spring Forests for Maine's Future interviewed him about his relationship to the Maine woods. Check out our May Fresh from the Woods feature here.
 

And, in forest news this week . . .  well, there's the good: Global warming may increase trees' capacity to store carbon and rainforest destruction rates slowed last year.

And the bad:  Europe's forests threatened by fragmentation and a proposed law in Brazil could hurt efforts to preserve the Amazon rainforest.

In Maine:  what's new on the LURC front, the feds plan to clamp down on wood smoke, and Goodwill-Hinckley School in Fairfield creates a new Maine Academy of Natural Sciences.

These are only a few of the many stories about forests and forest-related issues we've posted on our website. Click here to see the list going back to the first of the year.

Check back later this month for a story on the state's bug guy, Maine State Entomologist Dave Struble, and his take on the threat to our forest from alien invaders. 

See you in the woods!

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