A Great Resource

The Northern Forest region of northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York is home to more than 2 million people who live in rural communities, larger towns and small cities surrounded by the largest intact forest in the eastern United States.

Heating with Biomass

“The Center is a great resource. They help us consider our project as part of the bigger picture. We need to understand issues like how wood supply might be affected if the demand increases because of so many new biomass projects.”

–Dick Harris, chairman of the Colebrook, NH, District Heating Fact Finding Committee.

Voice for the Region

“Working with The Center and the four Northern Forest states, we get to weigh in on how this region with resources will respond. It is so helpful to have The Center staff focus on policy while we’re focused on day-to-day problems.”

– John Bartow, Executive Director, Tug Hill Commission

Payments for Carbon

“It may be worthwhile for smaller landowners to get into the carbon market, especially if they can earn enough to cover their property taxes.The income could help them keep the land in the family, or at least compensate the landowner for the benefits his land is providing to society."

–Northern Forest Center partner John Gunn, Ph.D, Senior Program Leader, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences

Heat from the Forest

Mary-Jo Landry, left, executive director of the Berlin Housing Authority (BHA), and Kathy Eneguess, chairman of the Center's Board of Directors, in front of a banner announcing BHA's plans to install high-efficiency wood pellet boilers. The Center's Model Neighborhood Program has provided technical advice and funding.

With partners across the region, The Center is creating a new generation of conservation tools that can provide economic incentives for good long-term forest stewardship while reinvigorating the economy.

Resource Programs

The center helps communities, businesses and landowners generate income from the sustainable use of the forest through:

Capacity Programs

Center programs build capacity across the region through:

Community Programs

The Center's place-based projects integrate multiple strategies to demonstrate how they can benefit their host communities:

Support Our Mission

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Program Highlights

Gilman Housing Trust Installs High-Efficiency Pellet Boiler - 04/27/12
In the Spring of 2012, The Center provided technical and financial assistance to the Gilman Housing Trust to conduct an engineering study to install a pellet boiler in the Mathewson Building, an affor…Read More
First 7 homes saving money through Model Neighborhood Project - 04/25/12
Since February, the Model Neighborhood Project has installed 8 high-efficiency wood pellet boilers in homes in Berlin, NH, saving homeowners money on heating fuel and increasing the amount of money …Read More
Program promotes use of local wood to replace oil heat - 11/11/11
The Northern Forest Center and partners are launching the Model Neighborhood Project in Berlin, NH, to help move the Northern Forest region away from dependence on imported oil toward a local energy…Read More
Town of Saranac Moving Ahead with Biomass Pre-feasibility Study - 10/24/11
The Center in collaboration with the Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC) and the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) held a second information session for Town of Saranac residents. Th…Read More