Celebrating National Forest Week in Maine

J.D. Irving, Limited is proud to recognize National Forest Week in the United States. This annual celebration is observed each year during the second week of July and encourages Americans to explore and learn about the forests in their backyards.

The forests of Maine, like Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, are part of the Acadian Forest, which is characterized by its patchwork of softwood-dominant, hardwood-dominant and mixed stands.

The company takes pride in its stewardship of this forestland in Maine through sustainable forest management, ensuring the working forest will be there for generations to come.

Part of sustainable forest management means managing for conservation and maintaining a broad variety of forest conditions to provide habitat for diverse plant and animal species. JDI maintains a 2,149-site Conservation Areas program that includes 289 sites in Maine.

One of these, an area known as the Fox Brook Ledges along the Upper Saint John River in northern Maine, is the only location in the world where the endangered Furbish’s Lousewort plant grows.

In the town of Masardis in Aroostook County, Maine, a 23-acre conservation site is set aside to maintain a breeding area for the Common Gallinule. This bird is considered a threatened species by the State of Maine and is about the size of a crow, characterized by a dark grey body and red and yellow beak.

The Conservation Areas Program also maintains sites significant for fossils, a floodplain and a wetland complex in Maine.

 

Learn more about how the working forest works for conservation, climate and communities here: nbworkingforests.com. 

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