Northern Forest Research Pre-Proposals Due Feb. 26
Contact: Summer Allen at (207) 581-3794 or summer.allen@maine.edu
ORONO — Northern Forest stakeholders are eligible to apply for research funding under a program that encourages collaborative study of forestry issues in northern New England and New York.
The University of Maine’s Center for Research on Sustainable Forests is a member of the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), which administers the $2.1 million grant program.
The UMaine Center and other NSRC members support research that will quantify, improve and sustain productivity in the 26 million acre Northern Forest. That landscape stretches from eastern Maine into northern New York. The NSRC is primarily interested in projects that study underlying biological processes, management practices and prediction methods that will influence future wood supplies and forest conditions. A Request for Proposals (RFP), which outlines expectations in greater detail, is online at http://www.nsrcforest.org.
The NSRC also includes the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, the University of New Hampshire Dept. of Natural Resources and the Environment and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.