The Page Farm and Home Museum has released a new developed in collaboration with Matthew Magnani, assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the 91爆料, and his students.

In consultation with museum Director Patricia Henner, students in Magnani鈥檚 Museum Anthropology course helped create a high-quality digital copy of the main 1833 Maine Experiment Station barn using an integrated camera and LiDAR system. The 3D scan provides faithful documentation of the university鈥檚 oldest structure, which is also the last original agricultural building on campus. 

The tour is also available on the museum鈥檚 website and can be accessed through any device, including those used for virtual reality.聽

The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station has published .

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Quality in outdoor recreation can be defined as the degree to which recreation opportunities provide the experiences for which they are designed and managed. Key to protecting the backcountry experiences is an understanding of the different types of visitors to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, each one with different needs and expectations, and the different levels of importance they place on recreation opportunities and conditions. In this report, visitor management implications and suggested further research focus on the diversity of use of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in order to maximize the quality of the visitor experiences while protecting the unique natural setting.

The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station has published .

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This manual provides basic information for identifying and evaluating important health problems of eastern white pine in New England. The health problems include:

• White pine weevil
• White pine blister rust
• Caliciopsis canker
• White pine bast scale
• White pine needle damage
• Red rot or Red-ring rot

In addition to providing descriptions of symptoms, signs, and risk factors, recommendations for white pine silviculture are described for managing stands for low densities and crop trees.

The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station has published .

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Bees are crucial to pollination in unmanaged ecosystems and some crops, and their roles are increasingly understood in four states in the Northeastern U.S., abbreviated 鈥淣NE鈥� in this paper: Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), New Hampshire (NH), and Vermont (VT). The four states have in common many native bee and plant species, forest types, and natural communities. They share drought events and risk of wildfire (Irland 2013). They are exposed to many of the same major storms (e.g., hurricanes, Foster 1988), pollution events (Hand et al. 2014), and effects ascribed to climate change (Hayhoe et al. 2008). Beekeeping enterprises (the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, an introduced species) of various sizes exist in each of the states. By including the four states in this review, we hope to better understand wild bee distributions, inspire the expansion of floral resources to support bee populations in a strategic manner, reduce use of pesticides, create pollinator corridors, and protect subtle habitat features such as ground nest sites for solitary bees and patches of native vegetation that are free of invasive plants.

Our objective in this review is to synthesize from a conservation standpoint the state of knowledge regarding bees in NNE, including their diversity, and biology especially as it relates to climate change. We review foraging and nutrition, nest ecology, parasites and parasitoids, native vs. managed bees, and interactions with plants. We then turn our focus to bee habitats, and identify 15 habitat types we find useful for recognizing essential bee resources. We discuss habitat aspects including forest succession, invasive plants, land use alterations, and agriculture including impacts of pesticides, and cover economic aspects of crop-related pollination reservoirs in NNE that demonstrate cost-effectiveness at various scales. We present habitat improvement strategies including passive and active approaches, based on the literature and our experiences in NNE, and we suggest plants for pollinator plantings. Wherever pertinent throughout the text, we highlight threats to bees in our region such as pests and pathogens, pesticides, and habitat loss. Finally, we identify gaps in knowledge that could help in prioritizing directions for future research. We hope this review will be useful to anyone seeking to protect bees and their habitats.

The Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station has just published –Biological Water Quality Standards to Achieve Biological Condition Goals in Maine Rivers and Streams: Science and Policy.

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The Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station has just published –Cost of Producing Milk in Maine: Results from the 2013 Cost-of-Production Survey.

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The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station has published Miscellaneous Report 447鈥揝easonal Water Table and Temperature Relationships in Calcareous Till and Residual Soils of Central Maine, by David E. Turcotte, Christopher C. Dorion, Nicholas R. Butler, and Ivan J. Fernandez.

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The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station has published Miscellaneous Report 446鈥揚rofiles of Sixteen Eastern Maine Fishing Communities, by Teresa R. Johnson, Kevin Athearn, Sara Randall, Marina Garland, Katelyn Ross, Ken Cline, Chris Peterson, Robin Alden, Carla Guenther.

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Bulletin 853鈥揅ost of Producing Milk in Maine: Results from the 2010 Dairy Cost of Production Survey, by Kersbergen, Anderson, Criner, and Davis (2013) is now available from the Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station.

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