FSM is using game cameras to document wildlife on our Nickerson Tree Farm property in Greenville. Our staff is discovering which animals inhabit these lands. We captured footage of a fisher making its way through the forest. Although they are sometimes referred to as “fisher cats”, this is a misnomer – fishers are actually part of the Mustelid family, along with weasels and otters! Check out our social media accounts to see the short video. FSM is excited to see the results from these game cameras, and we look forward to sharing more in the future.

John Hagan, ecologist and friend of FSM, was recently featured in an interview on the Living on Earth podcast with Paloma Beltran and Jennie Doering. On the Living on Earth podcast, Hagan discussed the way his organization, Our Climate Common, is using a technology called LiDAR to map forests in the North Woods, to identify old growth forests to better conserve them.

If you’d like to listen or read more, find that here: Living on Earth | John Hagan. John gave a talk on this at an FSM event last year, and more recently worked with FSM to write and publish Maine Forest Conservation Easements for the 21st Century. If you’d like a PDF copy of the publication, reach out to us by email.

John was also recently featured on Voices for Maine’s Environment, Natural Resources Council of Maine’s (NRCM) podcast.