Hello from Forests for Maine's Future:

Check out our latest Fresh from the Woods feature on the health of the land conservatiion movement in these hard economic times. The news is better than you might think.

In forest news from around Maine and the globe this week:  

Glacial pothole in New Gloucester. (Photo: Steve Chandler)

The Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust honors Barbara Wheatland by giving $200,000 to the University of Maine for a new state-of-the-art geospatial lab.

Maine politicians cheer extension of softwood lumber agreement.

They're firing up the old woodburning stove in record numbers.

More than $8 million in Forest Legacy money coming to Maine to conserve land in High Peaks area.

Society for Protection of New Hampshire forests secures conservation rights to thousands of acres around the iconic Balsams Resort.

Reminder:  the Feb. 15 deadline to apply for the Maine Youth Wilderness Leadership Program is coming up. For more info email admin@friendsofbaxter.org or click here.

If you have digital photos of forests you'd like to share, e-mail them to fmf.rankin@gmail.com. If you like this newsletter and find it useful, use the button above to share with your friends.

See you in the woods!

Editors, program managers and webmasters, Forests for Maine's Future encourages the media to use our Fresh from the Woods features. Please give us credit at the end of the piece and, if possible, drop us an email to let us know you used it. If you have any questions email fmf.rankin@gmail.com

!