• CFRU Webinar: Worth the Wait: The Value of Long-Term Forest Research in Maine

    Plots established at the CFRU's Austin Pond study site This webinar will begin with a presentation by Dr. Ivan Fernandez (University of Maine), who will discuss the establishment of the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) and the scientific value, both expected and unexpected, that this long-term, nitrogen-addition study has contributed to forest ecology. After this […]

  • CFRU Webinar: Mixedwood Management: Concepts and New Findings

    Online

    Click here to register! Please join us for the second CFRU webinar of 2019, which will cover the management of hardwood—softwood mixtures, known as mixedwoods, for both economic and ecological benefit. The webinar will begin with a presentation by Dr. Laura Kenefic, who will review current and emerging concepts of mixedwood management in light of […]

  • Beech Bark Disease Lecture and Field Tour

    This Event Has Been POSTPONED. A new date will be announced soon.  Please join us in Nutting Hall on the University of Maine Campus in Orono for a Lecture and Field Tour to the PEF by Drs. Dave Houston and Stacy McNulty on Beech Bark Disease, Beech Management and Wildlife Values. The lecture is open to […]

    Free
  • High Resolution Wet Areas Mapping (WAM) for Maine

    High Resolution Wet Areas Mapping (WAM) for Maine

    Registration is now open for the 'High Resolution Wet Areas Mapping (WAM) for Maine' workshop and field tour! We are excited to be collaborating with the Forest Watershed Research Center at the University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, the Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Analysis Laboratory at the University of Maine, and the Geospatial Information Technology Center […]

  • High Resolution Wet Areas Mapping (WAM) for Maine

    High Resolution Wet Areas Mapping (WAM) for Maine

    Registration is now open for the 'High Resolution Wet Areas Mapping (WAM) for Maine' workshop and field tour! We are excited to be collaborating with the Forest Watershed Research Center at the University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, the Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Analysis Laboratory at the University of Maine, and the Geospatial Information Technology Center […]

  • Maine Adaptive Silviculture Network Field Tour

    Control site (no cutting in 2020) at the Nashville Plantation MASN installation. Photo credit: Joshua Puhlick A Maine Adaptive Silviculture Network (MASN) forestry field tour in Nashville Plt., Maine, focused on Adaptive Silviculture Research is scheduled for August 18th, 2021. The tour will feature an introduction to the MASN project, a silviculture treatment tour, and […]

  • Fall Advisory Committee Meeting

    Our fall advisory committee meeting will take place on Zoom on October 20th, 2021 from 12 P.M. to 5 P.M.

  • Fall Field Tour

    Researchers and landowners discuss silvicultural treatments on a MASN installation for a recent SAF tour. Join the CFRU for a fall field tour on October 21st. We will be visiting Nashville Plantation to check out a Maine Adaptive Silvicultural Network site. Following the MASN stop, we will head to T7 R6 WELS to check out […]

  • Field Tour in the Penobscot Experimental Forest: Beech Bark and Leaf Diseases & The Many Values of Beech

    Penobscot Experimental Forest 54 Government Road, Bradley, ME, United States

    Co-hosted by CFRU and the U.S. Forest Service Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley, Maine Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Speakers and presenters include: Dave Houston, emeritus research plant pathologist, U.S. Forest Service Stacy McNulty, associate director, Adirondack Research Center, SUNY ESF Cameron McIntire, plant pathologist, U.S. Forest Service Allison Kanoti, state entomologist, […]