Publications

2012 Annual Report: Advancing Thriving Communities and Healthy Forests

Read the stories of businesses, homeowners, and community leaders who are working with The Center to strengthen the regional economy and benfit Northern Forest communities.

2012 Annual Report [screen version: 2.4 MB]   |  2012 Annual Report [print version: 4.6 MB]

Selling Forest Carbon

A Practical Guide to developing forest carbon offsets for Northeast forest owners (Fall 2012)

Selling carbon offsets may be an option to help landowners to keep forests as forests when timber-based income  is insufficient or a landowner simply wishes to diversify income streams. This updated publication is intended as a practical “how-to” for Northeast landowners of all sizes who are exploring the revenue potential of the forest carbon marketplace.

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2011 Annual Report: Generating Community Benefits

The Northern Forest Center creates strategies that will generate new economic opportunities and help conserve a healthy, well managed working forest. Read about The Center's multi-tiered approach, which combines on-the-ground projects with collaboration and regional leadership.

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Economic resurgence in the Northern Forest (Summary)

Summary of the 10 Steps for Economic Resurgence recommended by the Sustainable Economy Initiative, a four-state Steering Committee appointed jointly by the four governors and the organizations managing the project: the Northern Forest Center and the North Country Council. The federal Economic Development Administration and private contributions funded the two-year project, which concluded in 2008.

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Economic resurgence in the Northern Forest (Full Strategy)

Regional Strategy and Recommendations of the Sustainable Economy Initiative

The full strategy and recommendations proposed by the Sustainable Economy Initiative (SEI), including regional context, trends, long-term strategies and 10 recommendations for action. The strategy is the culmination of a 2-year economic collaboration to develop community and economic development strategies across the region to reinvigorate the rural economies of the Northern Forest. More information about SEI.

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2010 Annual Report: Creating Economic Vitality Based on Sustainability

Read updates on programs and stories of the partners The Center works with in our Fiscal Year 2010 Annual Report.

[2010 Annual Report Low-Res: 800 kb] |  [2010 Annual Report Hi-Res: 3.9 MB]

Payments for Forest Carbon

An overview of the opportunities and challenges of forest sequestration projects for the small landowner.

Published in 2009.

[Payments for Carbon Lo-Res: 1.4 MB] [Payments for Carbon Hi-Res: 4.1 MB]

HandMade in the Northern Forest: A guide to fine art and craft traditions in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York

HandMade in the Northern Forest lists 365 artisans and craftspeople, galleries, craft marketplaces, special attractions, restaurants and historic inns, organized into 13 driving tours across the Northern Forest. Each chapter includes a cultural heritage profile, sidebar articles, locator maps and interesting “tidbits” about locations along the way to highlight the region’s heritage and sense of place. Published in 2006.

At Home in the Northern Forest: Reflections on a region’s identity

At Home in the Northern Forest explores the sense of place in the Northern Forest through interviews with residents from varied backgrounds, ideologies and professions. At Home features stories, quotes and striking photographs that describe life in the rural communities of the Northern Forest, from Maine through New Hampshire and Vermont to New York.

Author Laura Tam spoke with foresters, economic development professionals, inn managers, wildlife biologists, loggers, shopkeepers, teachers and many others to discover how they are connected to the people, landscape and heritage of the 30-million acre region known as the Northern Forest.

Published in 2001.

Sample pages: Introduction [180 KB] Chapter 1: People [244 KB] Chapter 2: The Land [184 KB] Chapter 3: Culture & Identity [196 KB]

What’s in a Name: Exploring the Stories of the Baskahegan Landscape

What’s in a Name traces place names, and the stories behind them, to understand human connections with the Northern Forest landscape and how they changed over time. By conducting research into the written record and drawing on the experience of long-time local residents, elementary and high school students uncovered and recorded the stories behind scores of place names in the Baskahegan region of eastern Maine.

Published in 2000.

Sample pages: What's In a Name: Natives [164 KB] What's In a Name: Settlers [148 KB] What's In a Name: Loggers [188 KB]

Northern Forest Wealth Index

The Northern Forest Wealth Index represents an effort to identify and assess the core assets and values important to the Northern Forest’s overall wealth/well-being. It builds on the region’s emerging identity by looking beyond debates and exploring a deeper meaning of regional wealth—one which considers the well-being of the Northern Forest’s communities, its culture, economy, educational systems and environment.

The Wealth Index presents a snapshot of the Northern Forest as a place defined by shared community, cultural, economic, educational and environmental assets. Indicators, which come from a wide variety of state and national sources, are based on county level data related to 27 Northern Forest counties.

Download "Northern Forest Wealth Index" in PDF format. [1.2 MB]

Wood Ways

Wood Ways is a 25-minute documentary film exploring cultural and natural heritage, traditional arts and crafts, and forest conservation in New Hampshire. The film is based on an exhibition and catalog produced in 1997 by the NH State Council on the Arts and the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire entitled Deeply Rooted: New Hampshire Traditions in Wood.

Wood Ways profiles four New Hampshire-based master craftsmen who each discuss how they learned their inherited crafts: basket weaving, decoy carving, wood carving and dog sled making. The film demonstrates their work and reflects on issues of resource availability, forest health, and the legacy of wood craft traditions. Several of these artists have been featured at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Celebrate New Hampshire festival.

Wood Ways employs a segmented format, with breaks in between profiles, which makes it ideal for classroom and exhibition use.