In 2023, FOREST intends to extend its reach and its beneficial impact.

In 2023, FOREST intends to extend its reach and its beneficial impact by advancing efforts to raise funds for future projects which have been identified for sponsorship.  These projects include:

Central Pine Barrens Science and Stewardship Programs

• Housing for Central Pine Barrens Commission seasonal staff and visiting researchers including:
  • Fire program seasonal staffing 
  • SPB Suppression and other emerging invasive or forest health issues 
  • Pitch Pine Regeneration Study 
  • Interns.

• Prescribed Fire Program Continuity Funding 
  • Programmatic Work: 
  • Phragmites control 
  • Atlantic White Cedar habitat assessments 
  • Lupine population expansion.

• Research and Monitoring 
  • Faunal inventories associated with Prescribed Fire 
  • Deer exclusion studies 
  • Small mammal inventories 
  • Whip-poor-will and other species of special concern surveys 
  • Research and monitoring
  • Biological inventories to identify flora and fauna and ecological communities in representative areas, including surveys of rare, endangered, threatened and special concern.

• Volunteer Stewardship Program
  • Invasive species management 
  • Educational Programming 
  • Seed Collection.