An article written and read by Meg Graham MacLean.

Meg Graham MacLean is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar of carbon accounting at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. She is passionate about collaborating with forestry, environmental, and community leaders at all levels to better understand the human-environment interactions that impact our forest ecosystems. Her research uses innovative quantitative methods to explore how the forested landscape is changing due to human and climate pressures, the impacts of these changes on forest ecosystems and carbon dynamics, and how to monitor and model these changes with the goal of informing policy and management decisions. Learn more

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An article written and read by Christopher McGrory Klyza.

Christopher McGrory Klyza is Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author or editor of five books on conservation and environmental policy including Wilderness Comes Home, The Story of Vermont, The Future of the Northern Forest, and Who Controls Public Lands?

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An article written and ready by John M. Hagan.

John Hagan is a forest ecologist and President of the nonprofit Our Climate Common, based in Georgetown, Maine. He has studied Maine’s working forest landscape for 33 years. For more information about the Late-Successional and Old Growth (LSOG) mapping project, see Hagan et al., 2024 . If you would like help determining whether LiDAR might be useful for your area, contact John Hagan at jhagan@ourclimatecommon.org.

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An article written and read by Joan Maloof.

Dr. Joan Maloof is founder of the Old-Growth Forest Network; Professor Emeritus in Biology at Salisbury University; and author of numerous articles and books, including Nature’s Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests, Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests, and Treepedia. Her newest book, Forty Ways to Know a Tree, will be released in April 2026.

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A poem written and read by Robert T. Perschel.

Robert (Bob) Perschel joined the New England Forestry Foundation in April 2012 and retired in 2024. In his 40 years as an environmental professional, he has worked on forestry, large landscape conservation, and wilderness issues. Bob worked for the forest industry before establishing his own forestry consulting business and founding the Land Ethic Institute. He then worked in leadership positions for The Wilderness Society and Forest Stewards Guild. Bob has a master’s degree in forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a psychology degree from Yale College.

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An article written and read by Alex Redfield.

Alex Redfield is the Policy Director for Wildlands, Woodlands, Farmlands & Communities. On the farm, in state government, and in conservation policy circles, his work for the past 20 years has centered on supporting a just transition of New England’s landscape toward an equitable future. He lives in South Portland, Maine.

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A feature article written and read by Lynda V. Mapes.

Lynda Mapes was a keynote speaker at the recent Northeastern Old Growth Conference and is the author of six books on the natural and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. Lynda has been awarded the Washington State Book Award; the National Outdoor Book Award; and the Kavli Gold Award for Science Writing by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s most prestigious science writing awards. For 27 years she covered environmental news, nature and Native cultures and governments at the Seattle Times. Lynda’s newest book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests, is published by the University of Washington Press.

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A poem written and ready by Derek Sheffield.

Derek Sheffield is the eighth poet laureate of Washington State (2025–2027). He is the author of Not for Luck, selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award and finalist for the Washington State Book Award. He is the co-editor, with Simmons Buntin and Elizabeth Dodd, of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy and, with Elizabeth Bradfield and CMarie Fuhrman, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. His awards include the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year in Nature Writing, and the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee. Derek lives on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Central Washington and is the poetry editor of Terrain.org. Learn more at dereksheffield.com.

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