Keywords: conservation
Item 102951
"Fruit Cake For The Trenches" recipe, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 102953
Stuffed prunes pecipe, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 149192
Shire Brook Valley park plan, Sheffield, England, ca. 1989
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1989 Location: Sheffield Client: Shire Brook Valley Conservation Group Architect: Patrick Chasse
Item 149178
Teddy Ebersol's Red Sox Fields proposed conditions site plan, Boston, MA, 2005
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2005 Location: Boston Client: Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Architect: M. W. Cole; Geller Sport, Inc.
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.
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"… outdoor heritage and grassroots efforts to conserve natural resources. Crosby was a woman engaged in the outdoor and tourism industries at a time…"
Story
Timberland Legacy, My Family's History in Maine
by Lisa Huber
A long connection to the forestry industry and conservation movement in Maine
Story
Restoring the Penobscot River
by John Banks
My role as the Director of the Department of Natural Resources for the Penobscot Indian Nation