Forest Watch conducts basic and applied research on New England forest ecosystems. Research data is collected by teachers & students (gr. K-12), sampled from trees in their study plot.

Study Species
  • White Pine
  • Sugar Maple

The Forest Watch program is funded by the New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium, located at Univ. of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.

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Sugar Maple Research
  The Science

lichen

Lichens, Conotrema urceolata, live happily with sugar maples. Notice the moss. Near the end of sugar season, mourning cloak butterflies will emerge from their winter quarters under sugar maple bark. You'll see them sipping water in snowmelt puddles.