The variety of uses and owners has made it impossible to develop any knid of regional or standardized approaches for managing northern hardwoods. Parctically every stand must be considered as needing specially tailored recommendations. Hornbeck and Leak

Tools and Links

Management Plans

• Community Forestry Project - Maine Audubon
• Darmouth College Forest "Second College Grant"
• History
• Master plan
• Grafton County Farm and Woodlands Management Plan
• Management Challenges and Recommendations - National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry

• Focus Species Forestry, A Guide to Integrating Timber and Biodiversity Management in Maine - Maine Audubon
• Sustaining the Ecological Integrity of the Managed Forest - Maine Audubon
• Vernal Pools Around Maine (includes: habitat types, indicator species) - Maine Audubon
• Forestry Habitat Management Guidelines for Vernal Pool Wildlife - Maine Audubon
• Late Successional Forests - Manomet Center
• Background info on the Late Successional Index
• Late Successional Index for Northern Hardwood Stands
• Biodiversity in the Forests of Maine: Guidelines for Land Management - University of Massachusetts Extension
  

Forest Type Descriptions

• World Wildlife Fund:
• New England - Acadian Forests
• NatureServe:
• Northern Hardwood Forest
• Hemlock - Northern Hardwood Forest
• Red Oak - Northern Hardwood Forest
• Northern Hardwood - White Pine Forest
• US Forest Service:
• Adirondack - New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest

Forest Health

• Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana)
• Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
• Beech bark disease(scale Cryptococcus fagisuga and fungus Nectria coccinea)

General Resources

• Certification Standards - FSC
• Sustainable Forestry Links - Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
• Good Forestry in the Granite State - Recommended voluntary forest management practices for New Hampshire.

References ^

• Ecology and management of northern hardwood forests in New England - Hornbeck and Leak. US Forest Service
• Uneven-aged management of northern hardwoods in New England - Leak and Stanley. US Forest Service
• Northern Hardwoods - National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry