Main's Forests Are All Over the State, Says Patty Cormer

At the time of european settlement in the 16 hundreds, there were 18 point two million acres of forest and maine. Between 19 80 and two thousand development altered 850 thousand acres of the states forests landscape. Demand for forest products remains a major factor in the state's economy only recently outpaced by the service industry. Climate models predict that maine will be between three and 14 degrees warmer in winter by the year 21 hundred.