13 research outputs found
Conservation Easements as a Forest Management Strategy
Conservation easements have become an increasingly popular way of protecting private lands that have public value. Maine, like other northeastern states, has a particular interest in conservation strategies given among other things, its natural resource-dependent economy. C. Edwin Meadows, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Conservation (MDOC), and Donald J. Mansius, the Northern Forest Lands Coordinator for MDOC, address the forest management aspects of conservation easements and provide examples of easement land where forest management is permitted. An accompanying sidebar by Chris Spruce describes a conservation easement that has existed for more than a down years along the Penobscot River in northernMaine
Recommendations Concerning Administration of the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund and Timber Harvest Practices on Public Lands
Executive Training in State Government : An Evaluation of the Maine Executive Institute and Comparable Programs in Other States
Letter to the editor from C. Edwin Meadows Jr., commissioner of the Maine Depart
Letter to the editor from C. Edwin Meadows Jr., commissioner of the Maine Department of Conservation, on the current Maine Sunday Telegram series Maine\u27s Forests: Wood for the World