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  2. Dry conditions, human error fueling spate of wildfires across ...

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    As of Wednesday, the Maine Forest Service had responded to 379 wildfires that burned 257 acres this year. A tracking chart posted Wednesday by the Maine Forest Service attributed 153 of those ...

  3. Baxter State Park - Wikipedia

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    Police protection within the park is provided by the park's Law Enforcement Ranger staff and local Maine IF&W Wardens. Fire protection is provided by the Maine Forest Service; waste disposal and recycling is addressed through the park's Carry-In, Carry-Out policy. Maintenance is done by the many volunteer workers and paid employees of the park.

  4. Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,125-acre (37 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge made up of several parcels of land along 50 miles (80 km) of Maine's southern coast.

  5. Great Fires of 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Fires of 1947 were a series of forest fires in the State of Maine in the United States that destroyed a total area of 17,188 acres (6,956 ha) of wooded land on Mount Desert Island and 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) statewide. [1] Collectively, the fires killed a total of 16 people. [2]

  6. Maine Forest Service - Wikipedia

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  7. National Fire Danger Rating System - Wikipedia

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    Each day during the fire season, national maps of selected fire weather and Fire danger components of the National Fire Danger Rating System are produced by the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS-MAPS), located at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana. Current fire danger and forecast fire danger maps ...

  8. Baxter Woods - Wikipedia

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    Mayor Baxter Woods Park is a nature reserve and municipal forest in the Deering Center neighborhood of Portland, Maine, United States. The land which became Baxter Woods was owned by Congressman Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith. He died in 1876 and his estate sold the forest to canning magnate, land developer, and future Mayor James Phinney Baxter in

  9. List of Maine state forests - Wikipedia

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