Maine officials have decided to fight the invasive insect hemlock woolly adelgid with Japanese beetles, which are also considered non-native pests. Read more here.
Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT), a statewide land conservation organization, has appointed Angela Twitchell of Topsham to be its Land Trust Program Director. The announcement was made at the annual Maine Land Conservation Conference, held May 3 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. Twitchell will assume the leadership position held for 13 years by Warren […]
The hemlock woolly adelgid has made its entrance into Maine. According to Maine Forest Service entomologist Colleen Teerling, the pest was first found in the southernmost forests of Maine in 2003. Over the last two decades the adelgid has spread,.