Maine Forest Facts, 1957
- Item sets
- Maine Description and Travel, 1876-1974
- Title
- Maine Forest Facts, 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Description
- The first spot in the United States touched by the morning sun is timber-tiered Mt. Katahdin, in north-central Maine. From it stretches a carpet of deep forest greenery reaching into every county in the state. No other state has so great a proportion of its surface covered by forests. Maine's development started with the first harvest of its timber resource when the Popham colonists built a ship there in 1607. The economy of the state has been largely built on its forests ever since. The most heavily forested state in the nation, Maine still is important in the forest economy of the United States after 300 years of timber cropping. It is the country's leading producer of white pine lumber and among the leaders in output of pulpwood.
- Subject
- Forest products industry--Maine
- Forests and forestry--Maine
- Lumber trade--Maine
- Maine--Description and travel
- Spatial Coverage
- Maine
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Note
- Includes statistical tables
- Published by Maine Committee of American Forest Products Industries, 310 Eastern Trust Building, Bangor, Maine, in cooperation with American Forest Products Industries, Inc., National sponsor of Tree Farms and Keep America Green, 1816 N Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C.
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