The most forested state in the nation, Maine is a land of trees. The people of this area have long relied on these abundant resources. …When Europeans arrived in the 1600s… the King of England claimed the largest of Maine’s white pines as his own personal property, to be harvested as masts for sailing vessels. “It really bothered the early settlers at the time,” said Bob Frank, Jr., a retired U.S. Forest Service forester from Hampden. “[People working for the King of England] went into the woods and they marked trees with three marks, and you were not allowed, as a pioneer, to touch those trees. If you did, I guess there was quite a penalty.” Back in the 1950s and 60s, Frank was among a group of volunteers who created the Maine Forest and Logging Museum, a nonprofit organization that preserves and shares the history of the logging industry in Maine. And what a fascinating history it is.