Center for Research on Sustainable Forests

Our Vision is to Sustain and Enhance our Understanding of New England’s Diverse Forest Resources

The Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) was founded in 2006 to build on a rich history of leading forest research and to enhance our understanding of Maine’s forest resources in an increasingly complex world. Forest research and its application are rapidly evolving due to unprecedented availability of data provided by emerging technologies such as high-resolution digital imagery and GPS. As the CRSF looks to the future, we hope to lead the development, integration, and application of these emerging technologies to address current and future issues in natural resources.

OUR MISSION is coordinate, conduct, and communicate interdisciplinary scientific research to provide forestland and natural resources expertise and data relevant to the region’s diverse stakeholders.

CRSF GOALS

• Engage and serve a diverse array of regional stakeholders (e.g., researchers, forest industry, State & Federal agencies, conservation organizations, general public)  
• Create a community network of researchers interested in regional forest-related issues both internal and external to the University of Maine System
• Sustain, coordinate, and promote a diverse applied interdisciplinary science program on relevant regional topics
• Implement an effective multi-media outreach and communications program that reaches a wide range of audiences
• Provide a number of practical decision-support tools that are primarily geospatially-based across a range of focus areas and scales