that’s interesting, It’d take a larger map but i’d like to see it broken down by type of tree. basically, conifer, and a couple others i suppose?
South of Maine is deciduous forest and north the boreal forest. Maine is a transition zone so has a mix of both types, lots forest types / species.
Had some cut last year by a logging contractor; red oak, white pine, hemlock, white birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple and white ash and some unspecified.
We cut a little ourselves for firewood (mostly ash) and some lumber (mostly white pine).
Here’s some forest type in Maine:
most of that is foreign around here. Most is pine here, followed by red fir, then tamarack. red fir is what people want lumber out of but I cut pine to 1" by 12" and that gets sold. Fir is 2x6, 2x8 ++ 4x4 6x6 … structural stuff, it just takes more work to find the trees if the customer doesn’t supply them.
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Have in laws near the old Newgate Prison in Connecticut (first U S State Prison and a former copper mine) pictures from years ago show a view of miles from there with only church steeples breaking the skyline. Now all you can see is 50 yards because of forest.
Similarly in the Atlanta area during the Civil War General Sherman had 100,000 head of horses to feed off the land. Now that land is all forested.