About NESL

What is the Northeast Silviculture Library?

The Northeast Silviculture Library is an extension of the Great Lakes Silviculture Library, established in 2014, to northeastern North America. It is a virtual symposium of silvicultural prescriptions and their outcomes of actual on-the-ground management activities. It is a place for natural resource managers to share their work and perspectives with regards to forest and ecosystem management, for diverse purposes, including climate adaptation, ecosystem restoration, wildlife habitat management, and timber production. The library was conceived with the idea that every silviculture treatment is an experiment, every forest manager both a teacher and a learner.

The Team

The Northeast Silviculture Library is the product of collaboration between the University of Vermont Forestry Program, the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation, the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and the University of Minnesota Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative.

Funding

The Northeast Silviculture Library is supported by funding provided by the University of Vermont and Department of Interior Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center.