By Annie
On Saturday, May 26 FSM’s executive director, Karin Tilberg, was featured on the show Bill Green’s Maine. Bill focused on the importance of Maine’s North Woods and FSM’s conservation work, and on Karin’s role as FSM’s leader.
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By Annie
One of FSM’s friends spent much of her childhood in Greenville, Maine as a young girl in the 1940s. Our friend was kind enough to share some stories with us. Here is an excerpt about a winter trip to Moosehead Lake.
Dear Mary,
I bet you’ll have an Easter egg hunt this Easter. I want to tell you about one I had when I was ten years old. It was not Easter, but April. I had been invited to spend a few days with a friend at their camp—just three of us girls. We rode to Lily Bay with the mailman, who also had a lot of food to take to a logging camp up that way. We met a logging truck on a curve just as we hit a patch of ice causing us to slide into a snow bank. The truck tipped onto its side, but we were not hurt, only shaken up. Walter, our driver, was able to open his door and help us climb out into the soft, deep snow. Everything had fallen out of the truck—big sides of beef, heads of cabbage, and 57 dozen eggs, as well as the mail enclosed in four large bags. The logging truck had not seen our mishap, so had gone on.
Walter told us we would have to help him. Somehow we got the truck back right side up. The old trucks were not heavy, so we could push and Walter was strong. He did tell us to be careful as we struggled with the large pieces of beef and veggies. The mail was okay in the bags, but the eggs? They had fallen out of the cartons and had to be found!
It was some hunt to find as many eggs as we could. The snow was soft and deep and we formed a line, moving together as we dug for eggs. Many were close together and unbroken, but others had been tossed about as the truck rolled onto its side. We found 30 dozen easily, but it was harder finding the next 27 dozen. We looked at each hole in the snow as we spread out hunting. It was not a cold day and we were dressed warmly. It was not a bad time for us girls, but Walter knew the loggers and the cook needed those eggs. We had their food for a week!
We spent quite a lot of time hunting and placing the eggs in unbroken cartons as we found them. Would you believe we found only a few broken eggs? We knew that from the shells and yellow snow. We had spent most of that morning looking, and no car had passed. Walter stopped at Lily Bay to let us out and then went on to meet a man with a sled and horse to take the food to their camp. We knew we had missed finding a little over a dozen eggs in all that snow! It was a great camping trip.
Read the rest of the story here.
By Annie
FSM is pleased to launch the Alan E. Hutchinson Memorial Campaign. As you know, Alan served as the first executive director of the Forest Society of Maine (FSM) and did so for 20 years. Under Alan’s leadership, FSM helped to conserve one million acres of forestland through an inclusive approach that brought together people who have diverse views but share a common goal of sustaining the unique forested landscape of Maine’s North Woods.
To honor Alan, FSM intends to double its Conservation Opportunities Endowment Fund by raising one million dollars. This fund provides FSM with an annual source of revenue to help with the costs of conservation project development and realization. We are striving to reach the campaign goal by August 27, 2018—the one year anniversary of Alan’s passing.
Thank you very much for considering participating in this very special effort to commemorate a man who was a rare leader and who did so much for the conservation of Maine’s North Woods. Your contribution will recognize Alan’s past efforts and will help FSM fulfill the vision for the future that Alan hoped for. This vision is reflected in FSM’s long-term strategic plan, which is based on input from many of you.
To make a contribution you may send a check made out to FSM with Hutchinson Campaign in the memo line, or you can click here to make a secure gift online. You may also make a gift of stock, but please contact Janice at our office for more information: (207) 945-9200 or info@fsmaine.org.
Honorary Campaign Chair
Terri Hutchinson
Campaign Committee
Ian Burnes, Gordon Hall III, Lynn Harrison, George Jacobson Jr., Chris Livesay, Craig Watt, & Henry Whittemore
Staff Liaison
Karin Tilberg
By Annie
The state of Maine is fortunate to have a variety of habitat, everything from rocky coastline to acres of forests dotted with ponds, and a great deal in between. One could argue the whole state is special, yet there are several areas in Maine that really stand out from an ecological perspective. The Attean Pond region in western Maine is one such place.
This region has been identified by experts as a focus area because the landscape supports many habitat types in a concentrated area: mountains, wetlands, streams, rivers, ponds, and woodlands. This diversity is a boon for wildlife who can find different habitats in close proximity. The land in this region remains largely undeveloped, thanks to conservation easements and fee purchases by FSM, other conservation groups, and the state.
In 1984 FSM was created to hold an easement around Attean Pond. This year FSM hopes to add a missing piece to the 50,000 acres already conserved in this region through its Little Big Wood Pond project. We have an opportunity to conserve 4,000 feet of shoreline that, under current zoning, could be developed into 16 residences. Conserving this missing piece will protect the south shore of the pond from development and also help to maintain the wetland complex adjacent to Little Big Wood Pond, preserving water quality and fisheries habitat for species such as brook trout.
This article was originally published in Forest View, Spring 2018.
By Annie
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