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Established in 1986 through a partnership between the 91±¬ΑΟ and International Paper Company, the Howland Research Forest is a forest ecosystem research site in central Maine, representing a low-elevation conifer\/northern hardwood transitional forest dominated by spruce and hemlock. In 2007, the Howland Research Forest was purchased by the Northeast Wilderness Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home to the second-longest flux record in the United States (20+ years, since 1996), the Howland Research Forest is a founding member site of the Ameriflux<\/a> network. Flux data from three towers at the Howland Research Forest is currently shared with this network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the ongoing research utilizing the flux tower here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaborations between the USDA Forest Service,<\/a> NASA<\/a>, NOAA<\/a>, EPA<\/a>, the US Department of Energy<\/a>, Woodwell Climate Research Center<\/a>, and the 91±¬ΑΟ<\/a> have maintained an active research program in carbon and nutrient cycling, remote sensing, climate change, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers are also working with Woodwell Climate Research Center<\/a>, Arizona State University<\/a>, Emory University<\/a>, and San Diego State University<\/a> on an innovative, multi-scale, and cross-disciplinary study to identify the conditions and mechanisms driving methane sink\/source activity across soil moisture gradients in northern forests. More information on this project can be read here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Established in 1986 through a partnership between the 91±¬ΑΟ and International Paper Company, the Howland Research Forest is a forest ecosystem research site in central Maine, representing a low-elevation conifer\/northern hardwood transitional forest dominated by spruce and hemlock. In 2007, the Howland Research Forest was purchased by the Northeast Wilderness Trust. Home to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2406,"featured_media":7407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[90,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-the-environment","category-forest-resources"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":90,"label":"Climate and the Environment"},{"value":57,"label":"Forest Resources"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/10\/IMG_7892-scaled-e1762172655155-1024x577.jpg",1024,577,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"lhecker","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/author\/lhecker\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":90,"name":"Climate and the Environment","slug":"climate-and-the-environment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":90,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":22,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":90,"category_count":22,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Climate and the Environment","category_nicename":"climate-and-the-environment","category_parent":44},{"term_id":57,"name":"Forest Resources","slug":"forest-resources","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":57,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":44,"count":39,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":57,"category_count":39,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Forest Resources","category_nicename":"forest-resources","category_parent":44}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mafes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}