Daigneault’s work on resilience in northern Maine communities featured in UMaine News
UMaine News reported April 1 on a new project by Adam Daigneault, Mitchell Center faculty fellow, and UMaine colleagues that focuses on community resilience in northern border towns. These communities often rely heavily on forestry and forest products and can be rocked by mill closures, environmental shifts, and other changes.
Daigneault’s work in the Katahdin region as part of the Mitchell Center project Developing Economic and Community Resilience Indicators for the Katahdin Region, which inspired this new project, also indicates that these northern border communities have great capacity for resilience and diversifying economic development.
The current project, “A Resilience Indicators Approach to Ensuring Equitable, Objective, and Continued Investment in Northern Border Communities,” is funded by a grant from the U.S. Forest Service. Daigneault, University of Maine E.L. Giddings Assistant Professor of Forest, Conservation, and Recreation Policy, is working with Aaron Weiskittel, UMaine professor of forest biometrics and modeling, director of Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, and Mitchell Center faculty fellow; Sam Roy, research assistant professor at the Mitchell Center and School of Earth and Climate Sciences; and Gabrielle Sherman, Ph.D. student in the NRT: Enhancing Conservation Science and Practice program.