The Harvard Forest continues to spearhead THE WILDLANDS AND WOODLANDS INITIATIVE TO PLACE HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS AND PERHAPS ALL OF NEW ENGLAND'S REMAINING OPEN SPACE UNDER PROTECTED CONVENANT

August Highlights

Director Appointed to the Commission on Financing Forest Conservation

David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest, has been appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to a Special Study Commission on Financing Forest Conservation. The Commission, which will meet in the third and fourth quarters of 2010, will be composed of members from the public, non-profit and academic sectors, as well as from the Patrick administration and the Massachusetts State House. It will make recommendations to the Administration and the Legislature regarding promising methods for advancing the financing of forest conservation in the Commonwealth

Research and Education in Ecology, Conservation and Forest Biology

Since 1907 research and education have been the mission of the Harvard Forest, one of the oldest and most intensively studied forests in North America. From a center comprised of 3000 acres of land, research facilities, and the Fisher Museum the scientists, students, and collaborators at the Forest explore topics ranging from conservation and environmental change to land-use history and the ways in which physical, biological and human systems interact to change our earth