Updates
Forest Policy and Economics Lab News
2024
- January 2024: Daigneault quoted on Bangor Daily News article on how switching to a pellet stove helps Maine in more ways than one
2023
- May 2023: 8 summer outdoor adventures recommended by UMaine forestry professors
- May 2023: New report describes community resilience in Northern Border Region
- March 2023: Maine woods could store more carbon at current harvest with ‘climate smart’ forestry, study finds
- February 2023: UMaine part of $10 million USDA grant to fuel economic resilience, sustainability in eastern U.S. forests
2022
- October 2022: UMaine led delegation of students, faculty attending UN climate summit
- September 2022: New study shows how global forests play a key role in the future global carbon balance
2018-2021
- November 2021: What the US pledge to reduce methane emissions could mean for Maine
- September 2021: Daigneault testifies in hybrid Congressional hearing on sustainable forestry and climate solutions
- January 2021: Maine wants to pay landowners to fight climate change with their trees
- December 2020: Forest management could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by billions of tons a year
- December 2020: Experts contribute to Maine’s plan for climate action
- October 2020: Challenges and change: Cultivating resilience in rural communities
- August 2020: UMaine’s Natural Climate Solutions Initiative releases interim report on Maine land sector’s greenhouse gas mitigation potential
- April 2020: Daigneault looks for prosperity though the trees
- March 2020: Researchers Model Spatial and Temporal Consequences of Increased Woody Biomass Use on the Global Forest Ecosystem
- March 2020: Daigneault to put forests, farms to work reducing greenhouse gases
- January 2020: Maine on target to meet near-term greenhouse gas emissions goals
- September 2019: Dr. Daigneault named to Maine Climate Council Science and Technical Subcommittee
- October 2018: New research project to help small farms get needed climate adaptation information resources
- September 2018: $2.9 million NSF award will train the next generation of environmental conservation leaders