Northeastern Research Station

Living Memorials

Research & Development

Themes: Natural Resource Sustainability

Goal:

This goal focuses on developing and delivering guidelines to help landowners and timber users sustain the aesthetic, ecological, fish, and wildlife, recreation, timber, and watershed values of the mostly privately owned northeastern forests. This includes research on silviculture and management, wood processing technology, and fish and wildlife.

Objectives

• Develop silvicultural techniques to enhance services and values, including techniques that meet the management objectives of non-industrial private forest-land owners.
• Develop techniques to renew and restore forests after disturbance, including regeneration of woody and herbaceous species
• Develop appropriate vegetation management strategies and tools along the urban/rural gradient
• Provide synthesis and tools to integrate forest resource management, including computerized decision-support tools.
• Improve the efficiency of the northeastern forest industry through information and technology development.
• Enhance our technology transfer to forest-land owners, managers, and timber users directly and through partnerships with others such as state foresters, cooperative extension specialists, forest industry and our colleagues in State and Private Forestry and National Forest Systems
• Develop and provide information on fish and wildlife community responses to forest and landscape change, including responses of threatened, endangered and sensitive species.

Who is Conducting This Research and Where?

• RWU 4104 (Durham, Nh.)
• RWU 4152 (Warren, Pa.)
• RWU 4153 (Delaware, Oh.)
• RWU 4155 (Durham, Nh.)
• RWU 4251 (Amherst, Ma.)
• RWU 4353 (Parsons, Wv.)
• RWU 4454 (Burlington, Vt.)
• RWU 4509 (Delaware, Oh.) No infomation available.
• RWU 4557 (Morgantown, Wv.)
• RWU 4558 (Delaware, Oh.)
• RWU 4701 (Princeton, Wv.)
• RWU 4803 (Princeton, Wv.)