The New England Forestry Foundation is offering a two-year contract to a qualified applicant to be an integral part of the team designing a self-sustaining institution to fund climate-smart forestry in Maine. This will involve researching similar efforts around the country and the world, conducting sophisticated forest growth and economic optimization modeling and determining the mix of practices that can maximize carbon storage in the forest and products while maintaining harvest levels in the state. All this information will be combined with creative ideas on financing and institutional arrangements to design a program to pay the financial incentives needed to implement climate-smart management in the Acadian Forests of Maine for as long as such incentives are needed.
