Research, Policy, and Management: A Visit to Bear Brook Watershed.
Maine’s Forest Climate Change Initiative (FCCI) hosted a discussion of long-term research, hydrology, soil chemistry, and conservation at its winter field tour in early December.
Climate Change, Science, and Practice at Pleasant River Headwaters Forest
At AMC’s Pleasant River Headwater Forest, science and stewardship generate community impact Written By: Gavriela Mallory Last month, Maine’s Forest Climate Change Initiative (FCCI) wrapped up its third year of community learning with a field tour at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Pleasant River Headwaters Forest. FCCI is a collaborative effort between Maine TREE Foundation, the…
Holt Research Forest 2022 Data Collection
Holt Research Forest Summer Technicians (left) describe their process for collecting regeneration data to Downeast Magazine reporter, Peter Smith. Holt Research Forest summer research technicians Marin Harnett and Jack McCann are making significant progress a few weeks into their field season. This summer, Maine TREE is pursuing several avenues of research, which center around the…
Oak Regeneration at the Holt Research Forest
Maine TREE’s Holt Research Forest (HRF) is home to over 30 years of long-term ecosystem research. Scientists and collaborators have investigated many research topics spanning from mature tree growth to seedling regeneration to wildlife. Throughout the years, these long-term data sets have been the basis for multiple scientific publications, but also yield information pertinent to…
Holt Research Forest is Hiring Summer Research Technicians
Are you looking for a fun and interesting summer job that allows you to work in the woods? This summer we are hiring seasonal Research Technicians who will collect data for several existing ecosystem studies, and participate in novel applied research projects.
2021 Holt Research Forest Interns
Holt Research Forest Summer 2021 Research Team (left to right): Andrew, Noah, Gia, and Jack. Each summer at the Holt Research Forest, Maine TREE funds an internship program through its research partnership with the University of Maine. This program allows enthusiastic research interns to develop valuable hands-on skills in the woods, experience what it means…
Helping map the future of Maine
By JOE RANKIN Forests for Maine’s Future Writer At one time or another we’ve all wished we could see into the future, to get just a glimpse of the ways our lives might unfold if we take this particular job, or buy this house, or marry that person or go to that university. The same…
The Long View: Three studies of the Maine forest
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer In a spruce-fir forest north of Bangor tall towers rise above the treetops, studded with instruments measuring everything from wind to carbon dioxide and methane. Another forest to the southeast gets regular doses of fertilizer while a patch nearby does not. In another chunk of forest on…
University Forests: Research, education and income
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer With not quite 14,000 acres, the University Forests aren’t in the big leagues of Maine forestland owners. No Irving Woodlands or Plum Creek Timber Co, certainly. But with dozens of parcels scattered the length and breadth of Maine, it’s not exactly small time either. Some of the…
CFRU: Real world forestry research
By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer The research topics are varied. From what types of forest Canada lynx need to how well herbicides do at helping young evergreens get a head start in a clearcut; how to build a better tree growth model to whether it’s possible to economically thin stands of 20-year-old…