Tools and Links

Management Plans

• Community Forestry Project - Maine Audubon
• 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)

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.

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