Forest Research Database

Researchers throughout the Northeast are studying a variety of topics related to forests, from research on non-point pollution in streams to international marketing opportunities for New England wood products. As part of NCFCNFR’s mission to make research results more accessible for community benefit, we have developed this database to provide the user with user-friendly access to a variety of non-technical research abstracts and links to other online databases. Abstracts and topic-specific databases can be viewed by browsing the list of forest-related categories, while links to general databases are arranged by the type of group or institution that hosts the database. In addition, we have added links to links to numerous online glossaries of forest-related terms, which can be accessed by clicking "Glossary" in the upper right-hand corner of each page of the database.

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Non-Technical Research Abstracts

We have selected a number of research initiatives from the Northeastern United States and around the county for inclusion in this database. Because information on research projects often contains highly-technical scientific language that is difficult to understand, we have made our best attempt to condense, summarize, and explain research initiatives in a way that best conveys the overall purpose of the research without eliminating important details. To browse the abstracts by researching institution, click here.

Links to Other Research Databases

Within each category, topic-specific databases will be displayed immediately before the non-technical research abstracts. Databases that are broad in scope or do not coincide with the categories that we have provided can be found in the General Databases section.

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Please Help Us Expand this Database!

If you are currently involved in a research project and would like to share your work with others, please send a brief description (1/2 page) of your project, along with the project title, start and end dates, researching institution, contact info (name, phone, fax, email) and any specific location information to john@yellowwood.org.

If you know of other resources that can be added to our database links page, please send us the appropriate website address (URL).

If you or your organization identifies as a researcher, and if you would like to be considered to either translate academic research into information that can be useful to rural people or engage in participatory research with rural people in their communities, please click here.