Department of Forest Management University of Maine About Us

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The mission of the Department of Forest Management at the University of Maine is to provide excellence in education, research, and public service that promotes the understanding, efficient use, and sustainable management of forest resources for the well-being of Maine, the United States, and the world.

• Offer undergraduate educational programs that 1) contain a core of humanities and sciences instruction appropriate to helping a graduate lead a productive existence in the modern world, 2) include technical skills needed for a a graduate to be of immediate usefulness to an employer, and 3) provide professional knowledge, reasoning ability, and communications skills on which a graduate can build throughout his or her career.

• Offer undergraduate education in Forestry, Forest Operations Science, Recreation, Parks, & Tourism, and Wood Science & Technology that meets the contemporary and anticipated needs of Maine's forestland owners, forest-based recreational services providers, and wood products industries, but that also enables our graduates to compete successfully for entry-level employment in these professions throughout the world.

• Develop a mechanism for ensuring that the students in each of our baccalaureate programs have an understanding of and appreciation for the challenges and opportunities that will be faced by graduates from all of our programs.

• Conduct programs of research that address contemporary forest-resource-based needs of Maine, the Nation, and the World, but that also are creative and imaginative enough to anticipate results of the long-term processes that are characteristic of forest-dependent systems.

• Attain the level of State, national, and international recognition of our programs of instruction and research that is necessary to attract students who are likely to be successful in their careers and to attract the funding that is necessary to research.

• To serve both the continuing-education needs of forest resources professional, and to provide the scientists that are needed by both the private and public sectors, offer both professional and research-oriented programs of graduate education that are clearly identified with disciplinary specialties.

• Clearly define the pubic service needs of Maine that can best be served by our Department and provide specific mechanisms for meeting those needs on a continuing basis.