Center for Research on Sustainable Forests

Ensuring Equitable, Objective, and Continued Investment in Northern Border Communities Daigneault, A., Daigle, K., Garlick, S., Hamshaw, K., Lavallee, A., Niles, M., Weiskittel, A., Whitehouse, C., and Woodall, C., 2023. A Resilience Indicators Approach to Ensuring Equitable, Objective, and Continued Investment in Northern Border Communities. Final Project Report. Orono, ME. Collaborators from the University of […]

The National Science Foundation award will support the new Coalition of Northern Forest Innovation and Research (CONFIR), which aims to accelerate innovations in forest ecosystem management and forest products and open new markets that depend on thriving forests in northern New England. The work will be carried out with researchers from Maine, Vermont and New […]

Climate change could create—and is already creating—the conditions that could make wildfires in northeastern forests more likely. “New England has a lot of forests that can potentially burn and create conditions similar to what we see in the western U.S.,” said Atmos interviewee Aaron Weiskittel, director of the University of Maine’s Center for Research on […]

Orono, Maine — The Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force, formed in summer 2013 by the University of Maine Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (CFRU), Maine Forest Service (MFS), and Maine Forest Products Council (MFPC) to begin preparing for the next outbreak of the eastern spruce budworm, has released an update to its 2016 Task Force report. […]