Forestry & Wildlife Program
The University of NH Cooperative Extension Forestry and Wildlife Program has been caring for New Hampshire's forests since 1925. Our mission is to educate New Hampshire's citizens about rural and urban forest environments, enhancing their ability to make informed natural resources decisions.
The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension has a professional forester in each of the ten counties and forestry, wildlife, and industry specialists and program coordinators located at the university.
We help landowners with woodlot care, long term planning, selling timber, wildlife habitat, estate planning and land protection, current use taxation, and more. We help communities through support to town boards, public officials, schools, civic groups, and other community organizations. We help provide a healthy working landscape by offering the state's 84,000 landowners, 1400 loggers, 250 licensed foresters, and 100 sawmills information and technical assistance. We cosponsor the NH Coverts and Community Tree Stewards volunteer programs and the NH Tree Farm Program, the NH Timber Harvesting Council, and the Professional Loggers Program.
These stories show how we work with landowners to care for New Hampshire's forests:
The following plans and reports provide additional information about the UNH Forestry and Wildlife Program:
Program Plans
- UNHCE Forestry and Wildlife Plan of Work Logic Model
- The 5 year plan for The NH Forest Stewardship Program
- UNH Cooperative Extension Forestry and Wildlife Program's Role in the New Hampshire Forest Resources Plan
- New Hampshire State Priority Plan for the Forestland Enhancement Program, June 30, 2003
- Urban & Community Forestry Program 5 Year Plan
Program Reports
