Maine foresters look to history amid spruce budworm outbreak

Maine foresters look to history amid spruce budworm outbreak

Editor's Note: This story is part one in a series about Maine’s changing forests. From the summit of Katahdin, the view is of forests stretching in all directions, broken only by the western lakes, the alpine tundra of the Tablelands, and the rocky peaks of surrounding mountains: woodlands as far as the eye can see. Forty-five years ago this scene would have been quite different. A voracious insect called the spruce budworm was ravaging Maine’s …