Philanthropists Lisa Cashdan and Peter Stein knew ready capital was crucial for the Center's investments in middle-market housing.

A Fresh Focus: People and Place Roger Milliken’s connection to the Northern Forest Center runs deep—just like his roots in [...]

All USFS programs focused on state, private, and tribal forestry; forest research; and wildfire management are slated for deep reductions or complete elimination in the president’s FY26 budget proposal. These cuts will severely impact the state forest agencies that assist private forest landowners responsible for managing millions of acres of forest.

The Northern Border Regional Commission, a highly effective entity, is slated for elimination in the President’s budget. Over the past 15 years, the Commission has delivered $335 million into 720 critical local economic development projects.

The Center calls on the Administration to reconsider its slashing of rural funding programs and the federal staff who deliver them, and on the members of the Congressional delegation serving this region to be vocal and active in defending these resources.

Instead of cutting into the deep knowledge and professional ranks of the Forest Service and compromising the public lands it stewards, now is the time to up our stewardship game and secure all the benefits the forest supplies – economic, environmental, and social.

The Northern Forest Center believes public forests in our region can be managed to remain healthy and productive carbon sinks and habitats, while also providing wood we need for our daily lives.

The Northern Forest Center has long viewed access to outdoor recreational assets and programming as a key ingredient in what makes up the fabric of vibrant communities, as well as an avenue to both retain and attract residents to the region.

While New England loses approximately 30,000 acres of forest annually to development and other land uses, national forests set aside land to provide essential ecological, economic, and social values to our communities.

Center Program Director, Julie Renaud Evans, chronicles her experience at this year’s annual meeting of the New England Society of American Foresters, describing the event’s big turnout particularly of women and students.