New federal funding for research on the region’s forest ecosystem and economy will allow the University of Maine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) to continue co-leadership of the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) with Vermont, New Hampshire and New York.  NSRC, created by Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont in the 1998 Farm Bill read more UMaine helps relaunch Northeastern States Research Cooperative to support applied regional forest science