Over the past year, the Center has brought together committee members from Community Forests located in the Androscoggin River Valley to bolster their collective understanding and commitment to climate resilience.

Last fall, the Northern Forest Center launched the Androscoggin Valley Community Forest Collaborative, bringing together the committees and foresters of eight Community Forests located in the Androscoggin River watershed to explore collaborative opportunities and ways their conserved land can support local climate resilience.

The Center is launching an initiative to bring together a network of eight Community Forests along the Androscoggin River watershed to explore collaborative opportunities and how their conserved land can support local climate resilience. 

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.

With rising oil prices top of mind, the Feel Good Heat campaign launched a new set of ads and content on the price stability of wood heat.

Homeowners can receive up to a 26% federal tax credit on residential installations of high-efficiency wood heating systems such as pellet stoves and whole-home pellet boilers.

Automated Wood Heat demonstration projects and marketing efforts are transforming the Northern Forest’s energy economy.

We’re supporting efforts to make wood a common construction choice for large buildings in the Northeast and to produce Mass Timber in the region as well.

Cutting trees helps forests remain forests. Learn how strong wood markets help keep the region’s forests intact.