{"title":"Progress for Young Mainers Paved by Education","authors":"Michael P. Delorge","doi":"10.53558/drod3479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/drod3479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70605516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 200 years since Maine statehood span a series of changing metaphors used by people to understand the forest and its values: the forest as wilderness, as timberland, as vacationland, and as ecosystem. These metaphors have succeeded each other over time, but broadly speaking, they all persist to one degree or another. These ways of viewing and using the forest can conflict or can come to uneasy truces, but new developments can revive the tensions. Public policy is always well behind the shifting needs as timberland comes to be seen as vacationland and vacationland as ecosystem. Further, conflicts between different visitors to vacationland can be among the most difficult to solve. As Maine moves into its third century, the momentum of forest regrowth has shifted into reverse gear: for the first time in a century or more, total forest area is beginning to shrink.
{"title":"From Wilderness to Timberland to Vacationland to Ecosystem: Maine’s Forests, 1820–2020","authors":"L. Irland","doi":"10.53558/vaze9112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/vaze9112","url":null,"abstract":"The 200 years since Maine statehood span a series of changing metaphors used by people to understand the forest and its values: the forest as wilderness, as timberland, as vacationland, and as ecosystem. These metaphors have succeeded each other over time, but broadly speaking, they all persist to one degree or another. These ways of viewing and using the forest can conflict or can come to uneasy truces, but new developments can revive the tensions. Public policy is always well behind the shifting needs as timberland comes to be seen as vacationland and vacationland as ecosystem. Further, conflicts between different visitors to vacationland can be among the most difficult to solve. As Maine moves into its third century, the momentum of forest regrowth has shifted into reverse gear: for the first time in a century or more, total forest area is beginning to shrink.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45320265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following a global trend that now has more than 55 percent of the world population living in cities and their metro regions, Maine’s economic and population growth are driven by our cities and the surrounding metro areas. The trend, however, will not meet Maine’s goal to attract a future workforce and reduce greenhouse gas emissions without regional solutions to housing, education, homelessness, climate adaptation, and public transportation. Meeting these challenges will require a loosening of attitudes about local control and an embracing of regional solutions to the critical issues inhibiting Maine’s economic growth. The political leadership of the state, cities, counties, and metro regions must develop new models to achieve greater density for affordable workforce housing and more public transit, including improved bus and new light-rail systems. THE DECLINE OF MAINE’S CITIES T growth of Maine’s metro regions may be a recent development, but for much of Maine’s history more of its people lived in cities and mill towns than on farms and in rural regions. Maine’s cities were located on its coasts and rivers to facilitate shipping goods in and out of the region. Maine’s resource economy based on forestry, farming, and fishing relied on cities with deep-water ports to ship products to market, as did the state’s mills that produced textiles, shoes, paper, tanned hides, canned goods, and various wood products. In 1836, Maine’s first railroad connected Bangor and Old Town, and soon thereafter rail lines began reaching all its cities, extending north to Montreal and south to Boston. The Portland Railroad Company’s 1909 map1 of its transit system and connecting lines displays a sophisticated urban mass-transportation system with rail and trolley lines that crisscrossed the Portland peninsula, looped into neighborhoods behind the Back Cove, and reached outer sections of the city. It then extended north, south, and west beyond the city boundary. Bangor and other cities had similar rail and trolley systems to transport people to and within cities and to bring timber, potatoes, and other goods to market. In the middle of the twentieth century, local mills began to be sold to out-of-state owners who consolidated and closed many mills. By 1969, all 14 pulp and paper firms and 74 percent of manufacturers employing more than 500 employees were operated by owners with no ties to the state (Scontras 2017). The cotton mills in Lewiston, Biddeford, Saco, Waterville, and Augusta could not compete with newer mills in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas with their cheap electric power, abundant low-cost labor, and state-of-the-art production facilities. Shoe manufacturers in Auburn, Portland, Bangor, and other cities could not compete with low-cost foreign producers. As the US economy revived following World War II, Maine’s cities suffered economic and population loss as wartime ship building came to an end. Portland’s population fell by more than 20 percent from 77
{"title":"The Political Geography of Maine’s Economic Future: Cities and Their Metro Regions","authors":"J. McDonnell","doi":"10.53558/ghog4534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/ghog4534","url":null,"abstract":"Following a global trend that now has more than 55 percent of the world population living in cities and their metro regions, Maine’s economic and population growth are driven by our cities and the surrounding metro areas. The trend, however, will not meet Maine’s goal to attract a future workforce and reduce greenhouse gas emissions without regional solutions to housing, education, homelessness, climate adaptation, and public transportation. Meeting these challenges will require a loosening of attitudes about local control and an embracing of regional solutions to the critical issues inhibiting Maine’s economic growth. The political leadership of the state, cities, counties, and metro regions must develop new models to achieve greater density for affordable workforce housing and more public transit, including improved bus and new light-rail systems. THE DECLINE OF MAINE’S CITIES T growth of Maine’s metro regions may be a recent development, but for much of Maine’s history more of its people lived in cities and mill towns than on farms and in rural regions. Maine’s cities were located on its coasts and rivers to facilitate shipping goods in and out of the region. Maine’s resource economy based on forestry, farming, and fishing relied on cities with deep-water ports to ship products to market, as did the state’s mills that produced textiles, shoes, paper, tanned hides, canned goods, and various wood products. In 1836, Maine’s first railroad connected Bangor and Old Town, and soon thereafter rail lines began reaching all its cities, extending north to Montreal and south to Boston. The Portland Railroad Company’s 1909 map1 of its transit system and connecting lines displays a sophisticated urban mass-transportation system with rail and trolley lines that crisscrossed the Portland peninsula, looped into neighborhoods behind the Back Cove, and reached outer sections of the city. It then extended north, south, and west beyond the city boundary. Bangor and other cities had similar rail and trolley systems to transport people to and within cities and to bring timber, potatoes, and other goods to market. In the middle of the twentieth century, local mills began to be sold to out-of-state owners who consolidated and closed many mills. By 1969, all 14 pulp and paper firms and 74 percent of manufacturers employing more than 500 employees were operated by owners with no ties to the state (Scontras 2017). The cotton mills in Lewiston, Biddeford, Saco, Waterville, and Augusta could not compete with newer mills in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas with their cheap electric power, abundant low-cost labor, and state-of-the-art production facilities. Shoe manufacturers in Auburn, Portland, Bangor, and other cities could not compete with low-cost foreign producers. As the US economy revived following World War II, Maine’s cities suffered economic and population loss as wartime ship building came to an end. Portland’s population fell by more than 20 percent from 77","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70606817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowing about the Past vs Learning from the Past: We Need to Do Both to Create Effective Policy","authors":"L. Silka","doi":"10.53558/fwfe8777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/fwfe8777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70607183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dilemma of Nursing Home Closures: A Case Study of Rural Maine Nursing Homes","authors":"M. McSweeney-Feld, Nadine Braunstein","doi":"10.53558/MLQR9643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/MLQR9643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70612395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maine and the Arctic: Why Maine Should Develop an Arctic Strategy","authors":"J. Wood","doi":"10.53558/ZLMZ6455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/ZLMZ6455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard E. Barringer, Lee Schepps, Thomas Urquhart, Martin Wilk
The story of Maine’s public reserved lands—or public lots—is worth the telling for its own sake and for its enduring lessons. Provided for in the Maine Constitution of 1820 and neglected for more than a century, the public lots were once scattered widely across the Unorganized Territory of northern, western, and eastern Maine. Today, they are restored to public use and benefit, reassembled into large blocks of land that, in aggregate, are more than twice the size of Baxter State Park. These consolidated public lots offer a wide spectrum of extraordinary values, include many of the crown jewels of Maine’s natural heritage, and will remain for public use and enjoyment as long as they are valued, accessed, and safeguarded from harm.
{"title":"Maine’s Public Reserved Lands: A Tale of Loss and Recovery","authors":"Richard E. Barringer, Lee Schepps, Thomas Urquhart, Martin Wilk","doi":"10.53558/wjhn6967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/wjhn6967","url":null,"abstract":"The story of Maine’s public reserved lands—or public lots—is worth the telling for its own sake and for its enduring lessons. Provided for in the Maine Constitution of 1820 and neglected for more than a century, the public lots were once scattered widely across the Unorganized Territory of northern, western, and eastern Maine. Today, they are restored to public use and benefit, reassembled into large blocks of land that, in aggregate, are more than twice the size of Baxter State Park. These consolidated public lots offer a wide spectrum of extraordinary values, include many of the crown jewels of Maine’s natural heritage, and will remain for public use and enjoyment as long as they are valued, accessed, and safeguarded from harm.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70614916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maine has a rich heritage of traditional arts and industries that derive from its Indigenous and settler populations and the ways its people have used its natural resources and adapted to its diverse environments. This heritage continues today in a variety of forms, from economic activities like resource harvesting to artistic expressions such as music, dance, storytelling, and the visual arts. This essay looks at how traditional or folk activities, including foods, beverages, and other artisanal industries, continue to play an important role in Maine’s economic, social, and cultural landscape. Far from being quaint traditions maintained for cultural reasons, they are an important part of Maine’s new economy, helping to define its future through connections with its past.
{"title":"Finding Inspiration (and Profit) in Maine’s Living Heritage: New Entrepreneurs Drawing upon the Past","authors":"K. Ettenger","doi":"10.53558/wntb6901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/wntb6901","url":null,"abstract":"Maine has a rich heritage of traditional arts and industries that derive from its Indigenous and settler populations and the ways its people have used its natural resources and adapted to its diverse environments. This heritage continues today in a variety of forms, from economic activities like resource harvesting to artistic expressions such as music, dance, storytelling, and the visual arts. This essay looks at how traditional or folk activities, including foods, beverages, and other artisanal industries, continue to play an important role in Maine’s economic, social, and cultural landscape. Far from being quaint traditions maintained for cultural reasons, they are an important part of Maine’s new economy, helping to define its future through connections with its past.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41832277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The College Conundrum: Reanimating the American Dream for Maine Youth","authors":"Neily Raymond","doi":"10.53558/btrp3717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/btrp3717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70601348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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