Resources

CRSF Annual Reports
CRSF YouTube Channel
Northeast Forest Information Source (NEFIS): The source for publications, presentations, posters, and data sets about key forestry topics for forest managers and researchers.
Spruce Budworm Task Force website: Go-to source for lessons learned during the last outbreak and up-to-date bulletins on the current outbreak and mitigation response efforts.
INSPIRES: Smart Data for Health Forests: Compiling data to better assess, understand and forecast complex forest landscape changes was the goal for this 4-year, multidisciplinary regional project.
Forest Climate Change Initiative (FCCI): CRSF’s outreach 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
Maine Forest Service
Maine Forest Products Council
Maine Tree Foundation
Forests for Maine’s Future
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.