Forest Future Workshop Results
Between May 2025 and January 2026, our research team organized participatory workshops in Maine to understand the hopes, priorities, and barriers facing future forest management in different regions. These workshops brought together 69 participants representing various Wabanaki Tribes, government agencies, conservation groups, forest managers, forest landowners, and forest user groups. The following file summarizes results from the Three Horizons exercise including emerging future narratives alongside regional and statewide dynamics.
Forest Future Illustrations
Ravneet worked with an undergraduate student, Moss Joslin, in the Scientific Illustration department at the University of Georgia to produce scenario illustrations. The following images visualize desirable forest futures designed by workshop participants during the Three Horizons exercise for the Katahdin Region and Western Woods. The accompanying text highlights the desirable ecological, economic, and social aspects of forested communities in both areas.
Images by Moss Joslin ©
Publications
- Kaur, R., & Abrams, J. (2026). Industrial to investment: pathways and outcomes of timberland financialization in the United States. Environmental Research Letters, 21(8), 083003.
- Zhao, J., Daigneault, A., Wei, X., Salcido, E., & Weiskittel, A. (2025). Forest type, landowner practices, and climate shape tree species diversity in Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 593, 122919.
- Gao, X., Zhou, Z., Ollinger, S. V., Matthes, J. H., Jiao, W., & Thompson, J. R. (2025). pnetr: An R package for the PnET family of forest ecosystem models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
- Gao, X., Friedl, M. A., Richardson, A. D., Pasquarella, V. J., O’Keefe, J., Bailey, A. S., & Thompson, J. R. (2025). Asymmetric Spring and Autumn Phenology Control Growing Season Length in Temperate Deciduous Forests. bioRxiv, 2025-10.
- Thompson, J. R., Kalinin, A., Lee, L. G., Pasquarella, V. J., Plisinski, J., & Sims, K. R. (2024). Do working forest easements work for conservation?. Environmental Research Letters, 19(11), 114033.
- Pasquarella, V. J., Morreale, L. L., Brown, C. F., Kilbride, J. B., & Thompson, J. R. (2023). Not-so-random forests: Comparing voting and decision tree ensembles for characterizing partial harvest events. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 125, 103561.
