Photo credit: Depositphotos. Cider Industry in Maine. The state's vibrant agricultural sector has embraced this trend, with thousands of new trees being planted to meet increasing demand.

From the coast to mountains and from mild climates to nearly arctic conditions, Maine encompasses more than a hundred types ...

PORTLAND (WGME) --With all this rain on Thursday, the fall foliage will pop soon.The limited rainfall in Maine, especially in Portland, during September is damaging the trees and their leaves ...

Maine has been dealing with this severe outbreak since 2016, with the epicenter centered around the midcoast communities of Bath and Brunswick, Maine, but each spring the caterpillars’ reach grows.

The number of red spruce, one of Maine’s most common and valuable trees, is likely to decline by 50% by 2100, according to the U.S. Forest Service’s climate change tree atlas, a modeling tool ...

“The best 2023 New England fall foliage areas are likely to be northern Maine as well as Down East and toward Acadia, and southern New England could have a good year as well,” according to Salge.

Thomas Schmeelk, Maine Forest Service entomologist, said that the state tracks defoliation caused by the caterpillars, and saw it plummet from 46,000 acres in 2023 to 2,000 acres in 2024 ...

In which we muckrake about the season that turns our world into mush. Maine has five seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter, and mud. That’s not a punch line. Mud season is real, and we happen to be ...