Gale Ross speaks for the leaves.
For more than a decade the retired Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry employee has been the official spokesperson for the state’s fall foliage and the go-to person for all things leaf-peeping.
Ross has been in charge of Maine’s official fall foliage website, mainefoliage.com, for the past 12 years. A service of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, the website provides the public with weekly fall foliage reports from observations by Maine Forest Service and state park rangers throughout the state.
The website breaks the state down into seven geographic regions and tracks the foliage color conditions from mid-September through mid-October. It also offers suggestions for drives and other trips to follow the leaves.
“I believe we are going to have the typical six weeks of fall foliage this year,” Ross said. “Things should peak in northern Maine around the last of September or first of October and then progress north to south.”
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