Improve carbon stock and sequestration Provide durable and long-term storage as wood products Can be used for biomass-based energy, which offsets energy from non-renewables Increase forest resilience to potential disturbances like spruce budworm or fire More FCCI FAQs
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Forest management and operations Forest fires Water quantity and quality, particularly during and after harvesting Spruce-fir suitable habitat Rare plants Habitat for wildlife Land use and conservation Forest vulnerability Recreation and human behavior (parks, ski/snowmobile industry, ticks, ecotourism) More FCCI FAQs
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Approximately 89% of Maine is forested Forests accounts for the vast majority of carbon uptake and storage in the state Forest carbon cycle is primarily driven by trees taking up carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and storing carbon as biomass Carbon is also incorporated into the soil and long-term wood products like lumber More […]
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The Center for Advanced Forestry Systems report highlights projects begun under phase 2 of this NSF I/URC grant. UMaine’s CRSF is the lead site for CAFS. More information on this project can be found on the CAFS webpage here. Many of the problems and opportunities facing the management of forests today bridge disciplinary and regional […]
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UMaine helps relaunch Northeastern States Research Cooperative to support applied regional forest science
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News Release from the University of Maine…. UMaine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests to lead NSF-funded effort to better measure, monitor and manage U.S. forests
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To learn more about this program, go to our CAFS webpage. CAFS awarded 5-year, $500,000 NSF grant
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A group of University of Maine faculty (many affiliated with CRSF’s Forest Climate Change Initiative) and graduate students, joined by a geology professor from Bates and a Maine Forest Service staff member, have recently compiled, synthesized, and analyzed an estimate of Maine’s carbon budget between 2006-2016 by major emissions source and land use category. This […]
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The 2019 CRSF Annual Report has now been released; it can be accessed on our website here. In addition to project summaries based on studies being done at affiliated long-term research forest sites (Howland Research Forest, Penobscot Experimental Forest, Holt Research Forest), the report covers the development of two new key initiatives under the CRSF: […]
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Our forests are at risk. As foresters and natural resource professionals, we are on the front lines of climate change. How do we decide what actions to take in order to make our forests more resilient? Join University of Maine’s Forest Climate Change Initiative (FCCI) for an interactive Science & Practice Forum to catalyze scientist-manager discussions about […]
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