Cooperative Forestry Research Unit

MANAGING WOODLANDS ‘WITH BIRDS IN MIND’ Forestry for Maine Birds Facilitated by Maine Audubon and hosted by the CFRU and Weyerhaeuser Where: the MASN site in Mayfield TWP When: May […]

Join us for a 2-hour virtual workshop on how to manage for LSOG forest in a commercial forest landscape. Part of the goal is to help us help you. We’ve […]

Where: • ORONO – Wells Conference Center, University of Maine • FORT KENT – 23 University Drive, University of Maine Fort Kent, Nadeau Hall • ZOOM Additional details: Register for […]

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Join us for our Winter Advisory Committee Meeting on Thursday, February 27th. Kindly RSVP here by February 13th, 2025.

This is a closed door meeting for CFRU Program Prospectus subcommittee members only. Please reach out to regina.smith@maine.edu with any questions.

This is a closed door meeting for CFRU Dues Subcommittee members only. Please reach out to regina.smith@maine.edu with any questions.

The CFRU project, Refining the Acadian Model, is nearing completion. Lead scientist Ben Rice will be offering an in-person workshop as one of the final deliverables for this project. Ben has been working on a user-guide that explains the model components. This workshop will be an accompaniment to the reference document and will help CFRU […]

Please use this link to sign up! Join the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit for a day in the field to visit areas recently affected by two forest defoliators, spruce budworm (SBW) and forest tent caterpillar (FTC). Heightened activity from these insects in the spring and summer of 2024 has resulted in defoliated areas in Aroostook […]

This meeting will focus on business items including drafting and approving new material for our 2025 - 2030 Program Prospectus, reviewing bylaws, dues discussion, etc. Agenda and pre-meeting materials will be provided 2 weeks ahead of the meeting. We’ll provide important forest health updates on spruce budworm for those unable to join us for the […]

in Madison, Wisconsin. CAFS research updates & field tour with WholeTrees Structures. Register now through April 10th for the early bird rate.

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Join us on Thursday, January 25th, 2023 from 8:30AM - 2:30PM for our winter advisory committee meeting. This meeting will take place only on Zoom to avoid scheduling conflicts due to potential winter weather. We will be voting in our new executive committee members, reviewing potential research projects for FY2025, and getting updates on ongoing […]

January 5, 2024 5:00 PM: 2024 pre-proposals are due. Please use this Google form to submit your pre-proposal. Pre-proposal template and directions can be found here.

December 21, 2023, 5:00 PM: letters of intent are due (emailed to regina.smith@maine.edu) Letters should include a brief description of the research project, outline linkages and benefits to Maine’s forest sector, and a total requested amount for funding. Letters should be no longer than 1 page single-spaced in length. Keep language as clear and concise […]

Join long-time funded CFRU scientist, John Hagan of Our Climate Common, for a workshop based on his most recently funded CFRU work. John's team is using LiDAR-derived canopy height models to pick up tall trees across Maine's commercial forestlands and then ground truthing the data to assess for additional ecological late-successional attributes, such as lungwort […]

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  Hosted by Wheatland Geospatial Laboratory. Save the date of September 22nd, 2023 for a full-day Maine Forest Carbon Workshop on the Orono campus. Click here for more details about […]

2023 Northern Hardwood Conference - hosted in Fredericton, New Brunswick by CFRU member, NHRI. Forestry professionals will meet in for a three-day in-person event. The first day is filled with […]

Save the date for our spring workshop! This virtual webinar, perfect for getting your foresters out of the woods during muddy May days, will feature a number of recent CFRU […]

Please join us for our Winter Advisory Committee Meeting on Thursday, January 26th. If you are attending in person, please sign-up through Eventbrite. If you are joining via Zoom and have not received a calendar invite with a link, please contact regina.smith@maine.edu.

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Join us for our fall field tour at long-term research area, Weymouth Point. We will be discussing the outcomes of studies thus far, ongoing work, future research ideas, and the upcoming remeasurement in 2023. More information to be announced. Planning to attend? Please sign up through Eventbrite.

Planning to attend? Please sign up via Eventbrite so we can count you for lunch or join via Zoom. 2022 CFRU Fall Advisory Agenda

Intended to connect researchers to our CFRU members, this event is open to all. We will be presenting results from a membership survey aimed at identifying the short-term research interests of our cooperative. This event is intended to assist potential researchers with developing proposals for the RFP that typically goes out in November for funding […]

This two-day workshop will explore the basics of Unoccupied Aerial Systems with a focus on applications in forestry. You will learn what is required to get your FAA UAS Remote Pilot certification and how to effectively prepare for the exam. The workshop will also cover all aspects of UAS including aircraft types, flight and mission […]

Join Maine SAF for the summer field tour that will explore long-term CFRU research site, Austin Pond. Presenters will lead a walking tour through a handful of various treatments and PCT experiments. There will be a brief overview of new and concerning forest pests, as well as some established native insects that are outbreaking this […]

This one day workshop will explore the basics of 3D point cloud processing using tools in Global Mapper Pro and ArcGIS Pro. You will learn where to get publicly available point cloud data, how to visualize your data, how to create bare earth DTMs, canopy surface models, canopy height models, hillshades, and other common raster […]

This half-day workshop will explore commonly used workflows for lidar-based Enhanced Forest Inventories. We will discuss core concepts, important considerations for success, and provide hands-on experience with key steps involved to generate EFI prediction maps. We will also address how to effectively integrate EFIs into your GIS workflows and decision-making process. 3.5 Cat 1 SAF […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

Background: UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, in collaboration with the University of Maine and the Michigan State University, will present a four-part webinar series focused on Forestry in Finland and northern US. Webinar 4: Current Issues and Opportunities: a Look Towards the Future - April 28th, 2022. 9AM EST. The fourth and the final webinar considers […]

Our spring advisory committee meeting will take place on April 28th, from 8:00AM to 4:00PM in the Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine Orono. The meeting will be held in a hybrid manner through Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. We will be hearing full project proposals from potential researchers as […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

Background UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, in collaboration with the University of Maine and the Michigan State University, will present a four-part webinar series focused on Forestry in Finland and northern US. Webinar 3: Economics, forest operations and technology - March 24th, 2022 9 AM EST The third webinar deals with economics, forest operations and technology, […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

Background UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, in collaboration with the University of Maine and the Michigan State University, will present a four-part webinar series focused on Forestry in Finland and northern US. In each 1-hour session, the speakers from all three locations (Finland, Maine and Michigan) will speak about the topic from their own locality specific […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that […]

Background UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, in collaboration with the University of Maine and the Michigan State University, will present a four-part webinar series focused on Forestry in Finland and northern […]

Join us December 16th from 3 P.M. - 5 P.M. in 263 Nutting Hall at the University of Maine. Come talk with CFRU staff about ongoing projects, research results, field season positions for the summer of 2022, and more. We look forward to connecting with you! Click here to view our flyer for the event!

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

Libin Thaikkattil Louis will be presenting his Ph.D. defense on Economics and Operational Decision Constraints of Small-Diameter Tree Harvesting on November 12th, 2021 at 12:00 PM in Nutting Hall, Room 106.  His advisors are Dr. Anil Raj Kizha and Dr. Adam Daigneault. If you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation to […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

Background Building on the success of our 2020 Science and Practice Forum and 2020-2021 Science & Practice Webinar Series, FCCI and FSG are pleased to announce our followup series that will address climate change impacts on the different forest types found in Maine through a combination of 1-hour webinars paired with half day field tours. […]

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, […]

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 […]

Tyler Woollard will present his defense seminar on Cumulative effects of habitat change: American marten habitat selection and 30 years of forest harvesting in Maine on Monday, October 4th @ 12:00PM in 204 Nutting Hall or alternatively on Zoom. See access details below or the announcement flyer. https://maine.zoom.us/j/86322743179?pwd=SExIZkt0UUpLV1o5a0xmcVFQS2FkZz09 Meeting ID: 863 2274 3179    Password: 750887

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This webinar will begin with an overview by Dr. Erik Blomberg (University of Maine) of the ecology of tri-colored bats and their status as a species that has been recently petitioned for listing through the Endangered […]

Registration is now open for Long-Term Site Productivity: Lessons from Other Regions and Opportunities for Maine, a workshop and field tour in June hosted by the CFRU in collaboration with Dr. Tat Smith at the University of Toronto. On Thursday, June 7th, join us in Orono for a day of presentations by speakers from as far away […]