• Sewall, James W.
  Forest Insect Committee of the Northeast
  

History: Some 25 years ago the spruce and balsam fir forests of Ontario, Quebec, Maine and the Maritime Provinces were devastated by the spruce budworm which defoliated trees and caused death. Upward of 30 million cords were killed in Maine, some townships losing as high as 90% of their balsam fir and very heavy amounts of spruce, most of which could not be salvaged. The attack came eastward from Ontario and Quebec, passing through Maine and the Maritime Provinces.

The pulp industry was able to keep going after this attack, because very considerable supplies of wood remained and because in the then undeveloped state of the industry in Canada, Maine mills were able to draw wood from that source.