CRSF YouTube
The CRSF YouTube channel hosts a variety of videos related to our Center’s research forests, webinars and initiatives.
NEFIS: The source for publications, presentations, posters, and data sets about key forestry topics for forest managers and researchers. Recent and historical peer-reviewed and open source documents cover a wide range of topics, including forest health (with a large collection dedicated to spruce budworm), forest measurements and modeling, biomass, carbon and climate, forest ecology, regeneration, policy/economics, harvesting and management, and new measurement technology.
Spruce Budworm Task Force
The Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force, formed in 2013 with experts from the Maine Forest Service, Maine Forest Products Council, and the University of Maine’s Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, maintains a website (and related Facebook page) to convey lessons learned during the last outbreak and be proactive about sharing up-to-date outbreak and response efforts to mitigate potential negative impacts from the future infestation. The Task Force’s efforts aim to enhance research efforts and project model future conditions so that appropriate investments in forest management in place to utilize the wood generated by this future outbreak while attempting to mitigate negative impacts on wildlife habitats, recreation and other forest resources.
Smart Data for Healthy Forests
Compiling data to better assess, understand and forecast complex forest landscape changes is the goal of a four-year, multidisciplinary regional project led by the University of Maine.It will bring together expertise and facilities from UMaine, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Vermont to build a digital framework that integrates, analyzes and visualizes complex data streams across the region’s vast forest. “Leveraging Intelligent Informatics and Smart Data for Improved Understanding of Northern Forest Ecosystem Resiliency (INSPIRES)” also aims to strengthen workforce development and broaden participation in STEM education, particularly among students with diverse backgrounds, skills and interests. More…
University of Maine Climate and Forest Network
In light of our changing climate and its opportunities and challenges, the CRSF is now managing and coordinating the Forest Climate Change Initiative, an outreach effort to improve networking and communications as well as collaborative research on this subject.
Helpful Links
The Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) is a five-state collaboration that shares and synthesizes forest ecosystem research and monitoring data, facilitates networking and partnerships, and provides environmental and data access tools to understand and manage forested ecosystems across the region.The FEMC is comprised of partners from dozens of organizations working across Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.
University of Maine College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences
Northeast Forest Information Source
Maine Forest Inventory Growth Project (A field based, exploratory program connecting students to Maine forests)
Project Learning Tree (K-12 education tools)
Past CRSF Programs
Dr. Jessica Leahy, Program Leader
The focus of the Family Forests Program under CRSF (2010-17) was to conduct applied scientific research and outreach that contributes to the sustainable management of Maine’s family forests for desired products, services, and conditions in partnership with Maine’s family forest stakeholders. Research projects included evaluating forest pest outreach efforts, understanding landowner stewardship responsibilities, landowner succession planning, and the prediction of woody biomass supply from small woodland owners. Dr. Leahy, Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in the School of Forest Resources, continues to conduct research in this field.
Conservation Lands and Public Values
Dr. Robert Lilieholm, Program Leader
The Conservation Lands and Public Values program under CRSF (2010-2016) sought to assist decision-makers and planners to think strategically about balancing land conservation, working lands protection, and land development activities. Projects have included alternative futures modeling for the lower Penobscot and lower Androscoggin river watersheds, mobilizing diverse interests to address invasive species threats, and how the public values emerging technologies in forest-based biorefining.