Hello from Forests for Maine's Future.

This week's crop of news stories about forests in Maine, the nation and around the globe includes:

A merger that would affect a paper mill in Madison gets a green light .

Maine senators are wary of Roxanne Quimby's dream of a Maine Woods national park .

New Hampshire gets tougher on out-of-state firewood .

Canadians are harvesting valuable old growth tropical wood:  from an African Lake .

 World's forests role in sequestering carbon is huge   . . . and wood products have a role to play in the carbon emissions game , researchers say.

On the west coast scientists  fight a deadly disease.

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Check out our latest Fresh from the Woods feature on exotic forest pests and diseases and check back soon for our next on the Penobscot Experimental Forest, one of the most studied pieces of woods in the country.

See you in the woods!

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