DoomsdaysCW<p>The final <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/APCAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>APCAW</span></a> presentation is Thursday, July 12th. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Penobscot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penobscot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/basketmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basketmaker</span></a> and founding director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheresaSecord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheresaSecord</span></a> will be the guest speaker.</p><p>APCAW was kind enough to provide me with a link to last week's video and a PDF guide from the conference. I will be looking through the guide and will post about some of the key points at a later date.</p><p>Even though the conference is free, pre-registration is required.</p><p>To register:<br><a href="https://maineaudubon.org/events/everything-ash-webinar-series-june12/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">maineaudubon.org/events/everyt</span><span class="invisible">hing-ash-webinar-series-june12/</span></a></p><p>Link to June 5th presentation video (including the bit I missed with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RichardSilliboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardSilliboy</span></a>):<br><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/n63rnkAomz4AitHdAfBRC1hbSMCS2fuFUrQ7HU2UfP5gmrJiXoLREHE5UePF9EWU.TQktDNJCVGQMJjfu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/n63r</span><span class="invisible">nkAomz4AitHdAfBRC1hbSMCS2fuFUrQ7HU2UfP5gmrJiXoLREHE5UePF9EWU.TQktDNJCVGQMJjfu</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EmeraldAshBorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmeraldAshBorer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AshTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AshTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanBasketry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanBasketry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousStewardship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EAG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EAG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TIK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Basketry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Basketry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanakik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanakik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineFirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineFirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineWoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeStewards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeStewards</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>So, I attended a Zoom conference on saving <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AshTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AshTrees</span></a> from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EmeraldAshBorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmeraldAshBorer</span></a>. Unfortunately, I missed the presentation by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RichardSilliboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardSilliboy</span></a> (who got knocked out of the meeting by a thunderstorm), but I did find this film with him in it!</p><p>They Carry Us With Them: Richard Silliboy</p><p>by Jeremy Seifert</p><p>"This film, part of our feature multimedia story 'They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration', profiles Richard Silliboy, a tribal elder and vice chief of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AroostookBand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AroostookBand</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaqs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaqs</span></a>, and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAsh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/basketmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basketmaker</span></a>. As he weaves a potato basket at his home in Littleton, Maine, Richard contemplates the arrival of the emerald ash borer and the tenuous future of this ancient art."<br> <br><a href="https://emergencemagazine.org/film/richard-silliboy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emergencemagazine.org/film/ric</span><span class="invisible">hard-silliboy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanBasketry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanBasketry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousStewardship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EAG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EAG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TIK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge</span></a> s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Basketry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Basketry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreservingTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreservingTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanakik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanakik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineFirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineFirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineWoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeSteward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledgeSteward</span></a></p>
A d d i e B e a lAnother one from camp<br>
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{🎞️: Kodak Portra 800}<br>
{📷: Canon eos 10s}<br>
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A d d i e B e a lEvery spring my family and a group of friends spends the weekend at some camps on a stream know for its salmon fishing. The camps are cozy and rustic and a great place to slow down at get away from it all. <br>
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{🎞️: Kodak Portra 160}<br>
{📷: Canon eos 10s}<br>
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A d d i e B e a lAmongst the trees and lakes of northeastern Maine.<br>
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{🎞️: Kodak Portra 160}<br>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>As insect invaders approach, researchers use a combination of indigenous knowledge and Western forestry science to save a valuable tradition</p><p>By Willy Blackmore Nov 25, 2019,</p><p>"Suzanne Greenlaw doesn’t like chainsaws. She moves quickly through the chest-high ostrich ferns, frilly leaves heavy with rain, as the orange saw sputters and then chokes. 'She gets all freaked out,' says Gabriel Frey, laughing as he yanks the starting cord again with one heavily muscled arm, the saw whirring to life. Putting the bar to a trunk of shaggy, gray-tinged bark, he begins to cut, the grinding sound of the saw echoing through the damp, green-lit stand.</p><p>"The felled tree is one of three that Frey and Greenlaw carefully picked out of the woods on the cool, damp July day in far northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>. Plenty of logs are hauled out of the forest there, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AroostookCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AroostookCounty</span></a>, which is home to a chunk of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthMaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthMaineWoods</span></a>, a 3.5 million-acre expanse of commercial timberland. But Frey and Greenlaw, and the stand of gray-barked trees, are part of a tradition that’s far older than any timber camp or lumber mill. The trees are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FraxinusNigra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FraxinusNigra</span></a>, commonly known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAsh</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrownAsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrownAsh</span></a>, which have forever been at the hearts of the lives of Maine’s indigenous tribes.</p><p>"Greenlaw, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a> forestry scientist working on her PhD at the University of Maine, is at the forefront of the effort to protect the state’s brown ash. The trees are at risk of being wiped out by the emerald ash borer, an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a> that has been killing ash trees in North America for the better part of 20 years. With the help of Frey, a renowned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a> basket maker, as well as the broader <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> basket-making community, the married couple is fighting to preserve the rich tradition the tree supports."</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20976144/emerald-ash-borer-baskets-wabanaki-invasive-pest-maine-tradition-trees" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2019/11/25/209761</span><span class="invisible">44/emerald-ash-borer-baskets-wabanaki-invasive-pest-maine-tradition-trees</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousTraditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousTraditions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousWisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousWisdom</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EmeraldAshBorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmeraldAshBorer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveTheTrees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineWoods</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>"If the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiTribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiTribes</span></a> were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereign</span></a>, they would need to be consulted on every land-use decision that might impact their territory. Potential harms to human health, water and air quality, or plants and animals would be grounds for blocking commercial activity. The influential <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineForestProductsCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineForestProductsCouncil</span></a> lobbies for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/timberland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timberland</span></a> owners, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logging</span></a> companies, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mills</span></a>, including Maine’s largest landowner, the Canada-based <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JDIrving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDIrving</span></a> company, which controls 1.25 million acres in the state. It has also been one of the most forceful opponents of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TribalSovereignty</span></a>, arguing that any additional regulatory hurdles would stifle economic activity in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineWoods</span></a>." </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SevenGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SevenGenerations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBank</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beech</span></a> leaf disease to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/browntail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browntail</span></a> moths, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> face a multitude of threats</p><p>Though the state is 90 percent forested, invasive insects, diseases and a warming climate imperil the health of the trees.</p><p>By Tom Atwell, April 23, 2023</p><p>"Maine is the most forested state in the nation, with almost 90 percent coverage. The forests underpin industry, they store carbon in the fight against climate change, and they support wildlife — from butterflies and bees to birds, deer and many more. Beautiful and useful, our forests can not be taken for granted. They are under constant threat.</p><p>"Some of those threats you’ve probably already heard about. The emerald ash borer was first detected in Maine in 2018 and has since spread. It is now in seven Maine counties and is spreading most quickly in the southern part of the state.</p><p>"Spongy moss caterpillars, formerly called gypsy moth, have been vexing the forest industry for more than a century. Browntail moth damages oak trees and its caterpillars cause horribly itchy, and potentially dangerous rashes.</p><p>"Allison Kanoti, director of forest health and monitoring for the Maine Forest Service, provided an overview of these and other forest threats earlier this month in an online program co-sponsored by Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and the Maine Landscape and Nursery Association.</p><p>"Hemlock woolly adelgid has been present in Maine for a couple of decades. The pest made news when in 2021 many dead insects on York County beaches turned people’s feet black. Hemlocks in the state now have a new villain: Elongate hemlock scale. The creature hitched a ride on trees that Mainers bought and later planted in their yards. Although a newcomer to Maine, elongate hemlock scale has already spread into the forest in some counties along the coast. Kanoti said this disease is as dangerous to hemlocks as the adelgid, if not more so.</p><p>"Another sucking insect that threatens Maine plants is the Spotted Lanternfly. Though egg masses of this highly dangerous pest have been found on plants brought into the state, it has not yet been found in other life stages. Spotted Lanternfly needs tree of heaven (Ailanthus) to reproduce, a tree that is present in Maine. The fly feeds on black walnut, silver and red maples, willow, river birch, black cherry, tulip poplar and others. As Maine’s climate gets warmer, it could become a threat, Kanoti said.</p><p>"Kanoti touched on wood-boring insects. The wood-boring southern pine beetle has been found in traps, but is not yet a major concern. Others have arrived here in ways you might never guess, she said: 'Some have been found on wood furniture ordered from Amazon!'</p><p>"The bugs aren’t the only problem. A number of diseases also threaten Maine forests. Oak wilt disease, for one, is in nearby states and is moving in our direction. If you are cutting nests of browntail moth out of oaks, be sure to finish the job by the end of March, Kanoti said, because oak wilt becomes active in April and can more easily infect trees with open wounds. Beech leaf disease is already in Maine and has caused some severe damage in coastal areas. Scientists are studying it, hoping to find out how it spreads and how to control it.</p><p>"With all these pests, is the Maine forest doomed?</p><p>"Kanoti doesn’t think so.</p><p>"'Neglected patches are where bad things happen,' she said. She urged Mainers to pay attention to their trees and report any problems they see, so the state can try to address the: Email or call Maine Forest Service Insect and Disease at (207) 287-2431. When much of a forest is destroyed by a pest, some of the trees will survive. Seeds from those resistant trees can be used to plant new forests. In addition, scientists can breed new trees to keep the forests going.</p><p>"Both of these will take decades, of course."</p><p><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2023/04/23/from-beech-leaf-disease-to-browntail-moths-maines-forests-face-a-multitude-of-threats/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressherald.com/2023/04/23/fro</span><span class="invisible">m-beech-leaf-disease-to-browntail-moths-maines-forests-face-a-multitude-of-threats/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineWoods</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a></p>
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