What is done in our forests today will help or harm the generations who follow us. Percival P.Baxter, 1955

Tools and Links

Management

• Baxter Park - Scientific Forest Management Area (SFMA brochure)
• SFMA annual report
• Baxter Park's Scientific Forest Management Area (SFMA) is a Forest Guild Model Forest which uses sensitive, scientifically sound intervention to develop a forest which will produce high value forest products growing within a healthy and diverse forest landscape. The SFMA is mostly gently rolling terrain lying between 800' and 1000' elevation. Forest covers 94% of the SFMA and consists mostly of softwoods and softwood/hardwood mixes. (from the SFMA website)
  
• Austin Cary Lot Management Plan Forest Management
• Plan Recommendations - Maine Forest ServiceGeneral Resources

Forest Type Descriptions

• World Wildlife Fund
• New England - Acadian Forests
• US Forest Service
• Adirondack - New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest

Climate Change and Carbon

• Forest Carbon calculator
• Fighting Climate Change with Carbon Offsets - Manomet Center

Forest Health

• General Forest Health - Maine Forest Service
• Beech Bark Disease (scale Cryptococcus fagisuga and fungus Nectria coccinea)
• Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana)
• Spruce Bark Beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis)
• White Pine Blister Rust (Cronartium ribicola)

Wildlife

• Focus Species Forestry - Maine Audubon
• Wildlife Species Information - Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
• Managing Grasslands, Shrublands, and Young Forest Habitats for Wildlife - A Guide for the Northeast
• Wildlife Factsheets - Maine Audubon

General Resources

• Certification standards – Forest Stewardship Council
• Forest Inventory for Maine – US Forest Service
• Forests for Maine's Future
• Timber Supply Outlook for Maine: 1995-2045
• Maine timber tax
• Maine TREE Foundation
• Maine Forest Service
• Forest rule and regulations