Greenfire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time Showing: April 9, 2018 5:00 pm, 100 Nutting Hall Discussion with Narrator Dr. Curt Meine : April 10, 2018, 100 Nutting Hall The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, School of Forest Resources, and Center for Research on Sustainable Forests present a showing of Green […]
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For Immediate Release – September 15th, 2017 Media Contact – Chrissy Beardsley Allen Development and Outreach Director Blue Hill Heritage Trust chrissy@bluehillheritagetrust.org (207) 374-5118 Blue Hill Heritage Trust Presents: “Wildlands and Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities,” a presentation of the latest New England Conservation Plan, published by The Harvard Forest and Highstead Foundation. Free admission, light […]
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The University of Maine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests has partnered with the Maine Forest Service to develop and release the Maine Forest Dashboard website. The website provides current information about aspects of Maine’s forest, including recreation and tourism, conservation, forest products and family forests. The website also provides interactive graphing capabilities with important […]
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Conference registration now open for the conference to be held in Bangor and Maine’s North Woods, October 3-5, 2017. Topics include: managing forests at a landscape scale, working forest conservation easements, aquatic connectivity, and public use of private lands. For more information click on the link below. http://www.partnersforconservation.org/tenth-annual-private-lands-partners-day/
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The Bureau of Parks and Lands has just released the Maine State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) to guide Maine’s outdoor recreation priorities for 2014-2019. The report was highly informed by an outdoor recreation survey conducted by CRSF-affiliated faculty and students in UMaine’s School of Forest Resources. For more information on the SCORP report as […]
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The Center for Research on Sustainable Forests has published its 2014 Annual Report. Highlights include $1.73 million in funding, several strategic partnerships with UMaine and other institutions, and highlights from new and ongoing stakeholder-driven research projects.
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Additional news coverage of the ongoing Penobscot River watershed survey by Jennifer Mitchell of MPBN can be found here.
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University of Maine professors and Center for Research on Sustainable Forests leaders Sandra De Urioste-Stone and Robert Lilieholm are conducting a survey under the Bay-to-Baxter initiative. The study seeks to identify sustainable economic development pathways for the Penobscot River corridor that protect and leverage the region’s natural resources and quality of place. De Urioste-Stone, leader […]
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Dr. Sandre De Urioste-Stone (Program Director, CRSF Nature-Based Tourism) and Dr. Robert Lilieholm (Program Director, CRSF Conservation Lands), professors in UMaine’s School of Forest Resources, are conducting a survey of residents who live along the Penobscot River to collect their perceptions of recreational use of the River and its tributaries, as well as their feelings about […]
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A partnership between the Sustainability Solutions Initiative, the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, the Center for Community GIS, Maine EPSCoR, and the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation has just launched the Maine Futures Community Mapper to help Maine citizens, planners, and businesses envision their future landscape. This unique project brings together land use modeling for […]
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