In October 2026, a five-year effort culminated in the permanent conservation of 978 acres of woodlands and wetlands in Gilead, Maine, as Mahoosuc Land Trust took ownership of Tumbledown Dick Mountain.  

Across the Northern Forest, firewood banks are turning a local resource into affordable heat, stronger communities, and greater energy security. 

The trail work is implementing one of the core strategies identified in the Moosehead Outdoor Recreation Investment Strategy, developed by the Northern Forest Center and local partners in 2025.

The Center has been building a community — a peer group of foresters and land managers representing many large landowners across Maine’s North Woods. Collectively managing 1.5 million acres, these group field visits have helped share knowledge and build community.

The Northern Forest Center's Timber Way development to feature beautiful mass timber housing, filling gaps in middle-market housing.

Joe Fox is participating in #RideWithGratitude by expressing his thanks for the folks who make these biking trails possible.

With a blank slate and a decade to fill it, Maine West's first task wasn't launching programs. It was figuring out where a dozen different organizations actually shared ground. The partnership landed on three categories that cut across every partner's mission: broadband access and adoption, educational attainment and aspirations, and active communities, including conserved land and trails. 

The Northern Forest Center is paving the way for the construction of approximately 175 single-family homes and duplexes to be built in four new mass timber neighborhoods across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York through a $300,000 wood innovations grant awarded by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in August.

The Northern Forest Center is celebrating the official groundbreaking of the Timber Way Development, its innovative 24-unit housing development in Greenville, Maine, with an on-site public event at 4 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 27.

Dartmouth College students spent their final semester building new planning tools for the Northern Forest Center’s Androscoggin Valley Community Forest Collaborative.