Fall Foliage Report September 12, 2012

Even though there's another full week before the official start of Fall, Mother Nature waits for no calendar. Leaves are starting to turn in Northern Maine, and the Maine State Department of Conversation provides a weekly foliage report through October 17th.

Excerpts from this week's report :

"Currently, Maine Forest Service and state park rangers in Aroostook County and northern Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties are reporting low leaf color, or 10 to 30 percent toward peak, along with low leaf drop. Rangers in the remainder of the state are observing very low color change and leaf drop, or less than 10 percent, according to the report.

Overnight temperatures in the 40s and the continued decrease in daylight will spark the gradual change in leaf color from north to south through late October according to rangers."

For the complete foliage report, please click on the link below

http://www.maine.gov/doc/foliage/report/index.shtml