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The fungus that could save Maine’s trees one seedling at a time (opens the original)
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Researchers walking through the forest during a major spruce budworm outbreak in the 1990s discovered some healthy fir trees unaffected by the deadly pests, and wondered what gave them apparent immunity. They took needles from the healthy trees to study at their University of New Brunswick lab, and found they contained a fungus with a beneficial relationship with the trees. They succeeded in growing the fungus in a petri dish. The discovery attracted the attention of Irving Woodlands, a division
Maine’s new strategy to stop another insect disaster in the North Woods (opens the original)
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Christmas tree farmers in Aroostook County knew trouble was ahead when swarms of spruce budworm moths, some massive enough to be visible on radar, started riding wind currents from Canada into northern Maine in 2019. Within a couple years, Ben Voisine, manager of Allagash View Farms in New Canada, noticed the insects defoliating his trees. An outbreak that started more than a decade earlier in Quebec had finally reached his trees. “There were too many holes and gaps in them to be salable as Chri
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