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USDA Forest Service
Northeastern Area
Durham Field Office
271 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824

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Literature on Forest Fragmentation/Urban Sprawl in the Northeast

Basic Inventory, Detailed Inventory Studies. No date. Community Conservation Assistance Program. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. Unpublished report. 1 p.

Bear-Paw Regional Greenways, PO Box 19, Deerfield, NH 03037. Fold-out brochure.

Benefits Justify Annual Costs of Modesto’s Trees. Mary Ferraro. Winter 1999. Trees on Maine Street. Quarterly Newsletter of the Maine Forest Service Urban & Community Forest Program. Vol. 5, No. 4. 4 p.

Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community. 1999. Eben V. Fodor. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. 176 p.

Buried in Data Layers? Making GIS Forest Fragmentation Data Useful in Multi-Stakeholder Watershed Planning Efforts. Thomas E. Worthley, Sandy Prisloe, and Leslie Kane. University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System. 12 p.

Chesapeake 2000. Chesapeake Bay Agreement. Chesapeake Bay Program, A Watershed Partnership. 13 p.

Community Conservation Assistance Program Project Summary. No date. Unpublished report. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. 1 p.

Consensus Agreement on Model Development Principles to Protect Our Streams, Lakes, and Wetlands. Center for Watershed Protection, Inc., 8391 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD 21043. 9 p.

Conservation Planning Presentation. No date. Community Conservation Assistance Program. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. Unpublished report.

Conserving Open Space in New York State. State Open Space Conservation Plan, A Summary of the Plan. 1998. Albany, NY: Department of Environmental Conservation and the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. 45 p.

Defining Reasonable Care. Mark Duntemann. Fall 2000. Trees on Maine Street. Quarterly Newsletter of the Maine Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program. Augusta, ME. Vol. 6, No. 3. 4 p.

Do you own less than 25 acres in Chittenden County? Become a Backyard Forest Steward! Vermont Backyard Forest Stewardship Program. Williston, VT: Winooski NRCD. Fold-out brochure.

An Ecological Assessment of the United States, Mid-Atlantic Region. 1997. EPA/600/R-97/130. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Empire State’s Forests—Trends in a Robust Resource. 1995. NE-INF-126-95. Radnor [Newtown Square], PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. Fold-out brochure.

Farming and Forestry Strategies. South County Watersheds Technical Planning Assistance Project. October 2000. Dodson Associates, Whiteman & Taintor, Mark Bobrowski, Esq.

Forest Business Opportunities. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, in cooperation with Rhode Island Rural Lands Coalition. Project funded through a grant from the USDA Forest Service. Fold-out brochure.

Forest Resource of Massachusetts. Boston: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management.

The Forest Use Manual—Planning, Protection, and Management in Massachusetts. 1993. A cooperative project of University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension System, Massachusetts Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. Publication #C-206. Authors: Petersen, Melville, Kittredge, Wilson, and Angeloni. Edited by Joanna E. Evans.

Forestland Conversion, Fragmentation, and Parcelization. A Summary of a Forum Exploring the Loss of Forestland and the Future of Working Family Forests. Yale Forest Forum, Vol. 3, No. 6. April 13, 2000. 36 p.

Fragmentation and Urban Sprawl: Effects on Forests. Maine Forest Service Perspective. Don Mansius, with assistance from George Bourassa, Kevin Doran, and Kathy Nitschke. Augusta, ME: Department of Conservation, Maine Forest Service. 8 p.

Grow for the Gold: Trees in Business Districts. Spring 2000. Trees on Maine Street. Quarterly Newsletter of the Maine Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program. Vol. 6, No. 1. 4 p.

How Smart Growth Can Stop Sprawl. David Bollier. Washington, DC: Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse. ISBN #0-9621259-9-7

Integrating Extension’s Programs with Research and Teaching at UNH. Fall/Winter 2000. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. 7 p.

Is Your Community a Great Place to Live? 1997. Debra Sachs. American Planning Association, Northern New England Chapter.

Need Help with a Conservation Project? No date. Community Conservation Assistance Program. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. Unpublished report.

New England Forests Through Time—Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas. 2000. D.R. Foster and John F. O'Keefe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

New Hampshire Forest Land Base Survey. October 11, 2000. Sarah Thorne. Concord, NH: Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. 21 p.

On the Ground: The Multimedia Journal on Community, Design, and the Environment. Published by Thousand Words, PO Box 95452, Seattle, WA 98145-2452.

Planners Book Service. American Planning Association. 122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60603.

Regional Ecosystem Analysis: Chesapeake Bay Region and the Baltimore-Washington Corridor. Washington DC: American Forests. Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service. 8 p.

Report to Governor Shaheen on Sprawl. 1999. Concord, NH: New Hampshire Office of State Planning. December 1999. 26 p.

Request for Assistance from UNH Cooperative Extension. No date. Community Conservation Assistance Program. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. Unpublished report. 2 p.

Rhode Island Rural Lands Coalition. Warwick, RI: Southern Rhode Island Conservation Districts. Brochure.

Save Our Land Save Our Towns: A Plan For Pennsylvania. 2000. Thomas Hylton, Blair Seitz, and Mary Warner Denadai. Harrisburg, PA: RB Books. 128 p.

Scientific Basis and Implications for the November 2000 Maine Referendum: An Act Regarding Forest Practices. White Paper Series 4: Forestry 2000. Forestry in the Spotlight, May 2000. Orono, ME: University of Maine, College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. 4 p.

South County Greenspace Protection Project. Providence, RI: Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Funded by the USDA Forest Service. Fold-out brochure.

Sprawl. Waterbury, VT: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Fold-out brochure.

Stepping Back to Look Forward—History of the Massachusetts Forest. 1998. Foster, C.H. (ed.).

Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western. Jeff Gersh, Chelsea Congdon, and Ti Locke. 2000. Bullfrog Films, Box 149, Oley, PA 19547. This film explores the consequences of sprawl, its history, and alternatives for creating more livable communities. http://www.subdividefilm.com/index.html

Thinking in Forest Time—A Strategy for the Massachusetts Forest. 1999. C.H. Foster and David R. Foster. Harvard Forest Paper # 24. Petersham, MA: Harvard University.

UNH Cooperative Extension Summary of Activity Benefiting Moose Mountains Regional Greenways. No date. Unpublished report. 1 p.

The Urban Ecologist. Published by Urban Ecology, 405 14th Street, Suite 900, Oakland, CA 94612.

Vermont Family Forests. No date. Unpublished report.

The Vermont Forest Resources Plan 1999-2008. A Forest That Works For All. Waterbury, VT: Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. 96 p.

Vermont’s Forests. Waterbury, VT: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Fold-out brochure.

Vermont’s Scenic Landscapes: A Guide for Growth and Protection. 1991. Waterbury, VT: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. 80 p.

Virginia Forest Land Assessment. Forest Resource Assessment, Phase One, Project Report. 1997. Richmond: Virginia Department of Forestry. 18 p.

Volunteer Assisted Community Tree Inventories. Summer 2000. Trees on Maine Street. Quarterly Newsletter of the Maine Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program. Vol. 6, No. 2.

What Do Trees Have to Do With It? A Forestry Guide for Communities. 2000. Augusta, ME: Department of Conservation, Maine Forest Service. 51p.

The Woods in Your Backyard: A Homeowner’s Guide. 1999. Augusta, ME: Department of Conservation, Maine Forest Service. 91 p.

Last Modified: August 16, 2001



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