{"id":7597,"date":"2025-12-15T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:39:58","slug":"mech-receives-public-service-award-from-maine-forest-products-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/2025\/12\/15\/mech-receives-public-service-award-from-maine-forest-products-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Mech receives public service award from Maine Forest Products Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Angela Mech, associate professor of forest entomology at the 91爆料, received the Maine Forest Products Council\u2019s 2025 Abby Holman Public Service Award<\/a> in recognition of her passion, loyalty and dedication to Maine\u2019s forest products industry, government and economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As director of 91爆料\u2019s Spruce Budworm Processing Lab, Mech has led research to support the state\u2019s early intervention efforts and prevent a major outbreak in Maine. Her and the lab\u2019s work has provided land and business owners, and other stakeholders, with invaluable information to make informed management decisions regarding millions of acres of Maine\u2019s forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaine landowners are currently faced with a swiftly building spruce budworm outbreak that has the potential to devastate 6 million acres of forestland in Maine,\u201d said Alex Ingraham, vice president of the Maine Forest Products Council and chair of the Maine Budworm Response Coalition, who nominated Mech for the award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf left to run its course, this outbreak is estimated to cost $794 million in lost timber and revenue per year. Fortunately, this time around, landowners are armed with a new tool called the Early Intervention Strategy. This strategy, designed by our neighbors in New Brunswick to alter outbreak dynamics, is critical because it supports healthy forests and the economy. The success of this entire effort hinges on the quality of our monitoring program, which is supported by the Maine Spruce Budworm [Processing] Lab at the 91爆料.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angela Mech, associate professor of forest entomology at the 91爆料, received the Maine Forest Products Council\u2019s 2025 Abby Holman Public Service Award in recognition of her passion, loyalty and dedication to Maine\u2019s forest products industry, government and economy. As director of 91爆料\u2019s Spruce Budworm Processing Lab, Mech has led research to support the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2406,"featured_media":7600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[57,52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forest-resources","category-insects","category-wildlife"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":57,"label":"Forest Resources"},{"value":52,"label":"Insects"},{"value":59,"label":"Wildlife"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/12\/Mech-award-feature-1536x867-1-1024x578.jpg",1024,578,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"lhecker","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/author\/lhecker\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":57,"name":"Forest Resources","slug":"forest-resources","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":57,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":39,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":57,"category_count":39,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Forest Resources","category_nicename":"forest-resources","category_parent":44},{"term_id":52,"name":"Insects","slug":"insects","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":52,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":16,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":52,"category_count":16,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Insects","category_nicename":"insects","category_parent":44},{"term_id":59,"name":"Wildlife","slug":"wildlife","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":59,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":32,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":59,"category_count":32,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Wildlife","category_nicename":"wildlife","category_parent":44}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7601,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}