January 11, 2022 The Maine 30-Year Bird Project is hiring technicians for the 2022 Summer field season to conduct bird and vegetation surveys in the commercial forestland of the Maine North Woods. This project seeks to understand A) the range of forest types occupied by each species in the avian community, B) how bird abundances […]
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January 6, 2022 New paper in Global Change Biology-Bioenergy led by Jason Funk, Nicklas Forsell, & David Burns – we show that woody bioenergy could have a growing role in ambitious global climate scenarios – but real problems could arise if emissions are omitted from accounts & bypass the disincentives applied to other emissions, as currently allowed under IPCC &
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August 8, 2021 We just wrapped up the first field season for the “30-Year Bird Project” in northern Maine. I’m excited to be collaborating with old friends and colleagues to return to a landscape where we all worked nearly 30 years ago investigating the relationship between songbird communities and managed forests. The Portland Press Herald
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March 24, 2021 Dr. Bill Keeton (UVM) and Dr. John Gunn (UNH) will lead a webinar on April 8th at 11am ET hosted by the Forest Stewards Guild. The webinar will explore the multiple co-benefits of well-managed forests and examine the nuances behind applying these concepts to forests over the long term. Free and open to
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February 23, 2021 Would you like to spend a summer doing important bird research in the remote North Maine Woods? We are seeking a field assistant to participate in a study of birds and commercial forestry north of Moosehead Lake, Maine. The project is a replication of a study conducted by the Principal Investigators 30
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September 9, 2020 Our recent paper, Forest Carbon Resilience of Eastern Spruce Budworm Salvage Harvesting in the Northeastern United States, is featured in the “Discoveries” section of the Autumn 2020 Issue of Northern Woodlands Magazine. The piece entitled “Deadwood: Salvage or Let it Lie?” is written by Todd McLeish. Read the article here.
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April 27, 2020 Ecological Forestry Lab research quoted in article by Gwendolyn Craig in the Adirondack Explorer. Link to article.
MAY 29, 2018 Continuation of business-as-usual forestry will likely lead to Maine’s forest sector being a net carbon sink for the foreseeable future – meaning that when you add up all the carbon stored in the forest and also consider all the greenhouse gas emissions associated with harvesting trees and making products such as paper,
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APRIL 30, 2018 By Chad Hammer As the morning sky is filled with the elegant song of our feathered friends and the buds on the tips of trees are starting to explode, I think that it is safe to say that Spring is finally here, and we are free from the grip of old man
MARCH 27, 2018 by Chad Hammer @ChadFHammer I am a first-year master’s student with the Natural Resources department at UNH. My research is assessing the invasion patterns and impacts of terrestrial invasive plants in New England riparian forests (forests typically found along streams and rivers). I have always been very fascinated by nature since I was a
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