Forest Society of Maine

Key Facts

• Protect Maine’s forestlands, primarily through conservation easements
• Develop and apply new monitoring techniques for large-scale working forest conservation easements
• Further our own and others’ knowledge and understanding of working forest conservation easements, particularly at the landscape scale, and develop and apply new strategies in working forest conservation
• Utilize a collaborative approach by working with the full range of interests and stakeholders to gather information and perspectives before development of each working forest conservation project
• Find practical solutions that work and promote the connections between sustainable forestry and sustainable communities
• Provide technical assistance and informational seminars and materials on working forestland conservation easements to landowners, public agencies, communities, and other land trusts

Forest Society of Maine is an accredited land trust.