Drawing from her recently published book, Loving the North Woods: 25 Years of Historic Conservation in Maine, Karin Tilberg, the past-president/CEO of the Forest Society of Maine, will outline the difficult challenges to conservation during a remarkable period of activity from 1990 to 2015. During this time of tremendous forest ownership changes, Maine went from about 5% of the state having some form of conservation, to having 20% being conserved in some manner. Seven major conservation initiatives in the North Woods were significant factors in this tremendous outcome. Karin will discuss the forces behind this seismic change and share untold stories of conserving Maine’s North Woods. She’ll explore how people’s love of a place brought about action leading to these historic achievements in American conservation and how these stories could guide us now and far into the future.

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