Keywords: Maine Forest Service
Item 100974
U.S. Forest Service log scaler, Bear Pond, 1939
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Waterford Media: Photographic print
Item 100973
U.S. Forest Service scale measuring logs, Bear Pond, 1939
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Waterford Media: Photographic print
Item 54471
248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station
Item 99056
Assessor's Record, 1929-2013 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mutual Service Stations Use: Filling station
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
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"… Bay were quite primitive at that time with dense forest extending to the water’s edge, few houses, the only roads being foot and horse paths."
Story
Moving from Washington to Maine with the Navy
by Tom Jarvis
Maine's forests, mill history, and volunteer work keep me here
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
