Bureau / Program: Maine Forest Service 

Date: August 6, 2025 

Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM 

Location: Caribou Bog Outdoor Center located at 153 Taylor Road, Orono, ME 

Event Type: Workshop/Training 

Agenda 

• 9:00am-9:15am Check in and coffee 

• 9:15am-12pm will be invasive ID and Control Measures 

• 12-12:30pm Lunch (Will be Moe's BBQ on us) 

• 12:30pm-2pm Closing the Loop Alternatives 

The workshop is free but will require registration. Please contact the email provided for registration and information. 

Contact Email: amy.polyot@penobscotswcd.org 

Co-Sponsor: Penobscot County Soil & Water Conservation District 

This tour is for Foresters and Professionals.

View the tour for the general public.  

Join us for a field tour of The Nature Conservancy’s Green Hills Preserve and a discussion of how TNC incorporated principles of climate resilience into recent management. Tony D’Amato (UVM) and consulting forester Tim Nolin (Forest Land Improvement) will lead us on a tour of the management that was implemented over the past two years, part of which was designed as an Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) long-term study site.  

Two stands, one dominated by American beech and Northern red oak, and another dominated by Eastern hemlock and red spruce, will be visited. Silvicultural treatments and other management actions included patch cuts, crop tree release, thinning/small group selection, slash walls, beech chemical control, and enrichment plantings (tree species planting). This site has been heavily impacted by spongy moth, and there will be an opportunity to see and discuss how this impacted management implementations, and potential future management actions that will be taken at the site. 

Please come prepared to be in the woods for the whole afternoon.  Carpooling is encouraged, and AWD or 4X4 vehicles are best suited for access to the site. We will have transportation available (vans) for vehicles with low clearance.  

This is a short-distance walking tour with many stops. Please expect some trail walking with parts of the tour traveling over recently harvested forest with cut treetops (slash) on the forest floor.  

If you have concerns about the tour, please contact Steven Roberge at (603) 862-4861 or steven.roberge@unh.edu. 

Co-sponsored by: The Nature Conservancy and the University of Vermont

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The U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station published "Managing Your Woodland: Forestry Research Translated for Landowners" as a PDF that is available, for free, to any interested parties. 

This full-color guide with photos and infographics draws upon more than six decades of research at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine to explain forests, forestry, and the commodity and non-commodity outcomes of different management decisions.

Authored by Maren Granstrom (Maine-based consulting forester) in collaboration subject matter experts from the U.S. Forest Service, Maine Audubon, New England Forestry Foundation, and Oregon State University, and including Nicole Rogers (MFS Landowner Outreach Forester), this new guide uses plain language to explain research findings to people without a forestry background.