Seeing Forests Through the Trees
In a recent UMaine News story, SSI Ph.D. graduate Spencer Meyer discusses the rapid increase in land protection in northern New England from 1999-2010. Meyer’s research team, which included Christopher Cronan, School of Biology and Ecology, Robert Lilieholm, School of Forest Resources, David Foster, Harvard University and fellow Ph.D. graduate Michelle Johnson, studied the socioeconomic and policy factors that influenced the rate, type and distribution of land protection.
The team’s findings are reported in “Land conservation in northern New England: Historic trends and alternative conservation futures,” published in May in Biological Conservation.