FACTS versus Values: How Can We Make Better Decisions Keynote Speaker: Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 1pm Hauck Auditorium, University of Maine The 21st century will see unprecedented transformations in human life and vast changes on planet Earth. Key among these are the problems of sustainability, but emerging technologies − especially […]
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Long-term study links tree seeds, rodent population fluctuations
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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 Eastern CANUSA Forest Science Conference has just released the Proceedings of the 8th Eastern CANUSA Forest Science Conference. The conference was focused on the many stressors and agents of change converging on the region’s forests. Scientists and practitioners from a large spectrum of expertise made presentations on research, monitoring, management and outreach activities to address the many […]
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Patrick Strauch, Executive Director of the Maine Forest Products Council, discusses the next steps in the long-awaited “roadmap” for Maine’s forest economy.
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Maine has 17.6 million acres of forests, 17.1 million acres (97%) of which is considered timberland. Maine forest landowners are growing more wood than they harvest, and the carbon in the state’s forests has increased in volume by almost 5% from 2004 to 2012. Over eight million acres in Maine is managed according to the […]
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The Eastern U.S.: Just Gotta Be a Forest? http://forestsformainesfuture.squarespace.com/fresh-from-the-woods-journal/the-eastern-us-just-gotta-be-a-forest.html By JOE RANKIN, for Forests for Maine’s Future, March 23, 2017 Maine is the most forested state in the nation. About 90 percent. It wasn’t always that way, of course. European settlers in eastern North America initially confronted what they considered a fearful wilderness of trees. […]
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NSRC researchers Aaron Weiskittel, Christian Kuehne, and Shawn Fraver examined effects of forest thinning treatments on forest stand and individual-tree growth and on changes in forest structure. Researchers also assessed how distance from forwarder (machinery that carries logs) trails influences individual-tree growth. They used measurements from six spruce-fir study locations across northern Maine that were […]
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