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When Thereâs No Heat: âYou Need Wood, You Get Woodâ
Community wood banks, like food banks, help people in need. Climate change is shaping their role.
High-piled logs at the Waldo County Woodshed, a wood bank in Searsmont, Maine.Credit.
Photographs by George Etheredge
Marguerite Holloway and George Etheredge traveled to Maine to see how climate change is affecting wood banks there.
Published Feb. 19, 2021Updated Feb. 20, 2021
ORLAND, MAINE â The cluster of a dozen or so houses in rural Maine could be a summer camp closed for the winter. The compound has an eclectic, informal feel, with colorful hand-painted signs and stained glass, pottery, and woodworking studios. It was quiet on a bright, cold winter morning. Except for the line outside the food pantry, and the cars pulling in to leave small passengers at child care.
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Bangor Daily News photo/Troy R. Benett
MAKING MONEY GROW ON TREES Denny Gallaudet of Cumberland walks through the woodlot behind his house where he s lived for 40 years
Bangor Daily News photo/Troy R. Benett
MAKING MONEY GROW ON TREES Denny Gallaudet of Cumberland walks through the woodlot behind his house where he s lived for 40 years
Maine stands to gain from carbon offsetting, but whether it fights climate change is complicated Contributed • January 19, 2021
By Josh Keefe, Bangor Daily News Staff
The Trail to Tomorrow is a loop located on the outskirts of Grand Lake Stream, a plantation in Washington County that sits a 45-minute drive west of Calais. The nonprofit Downeast Lakes Land Trust built the 0.