Andy Kerr

Conservationist, Writer, Analyst, Operative, Agitator, Strategist, Tactitian, Schmoozer, Raconteur

Baxter State Park

Forests in the American East, Part 3: A Vision of the Return of Old-Growth Forests

Forests in the American East, Part 3: A Vision of the Return of Old-Growth Forests

This Part 3 suggests ways to partially—but significantly—bring back the magnificent old-growth forests that have long been lost.

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The Maine Woods: A National Treasure in Need of National Protection

Pulp has passed. Forests are more valuable for watershed, habitat and recreation than for wood or development. The Maine Woods are no longer mainly for wood.

A Maine Woods National Monument would be the embryo of a Maine Woods National Park that could grow in size and allow the trees to again grow as tall as they used to.

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