Extension Forestry connects UConn research with the people who care for our forests and trees. We provide practical education, technical guidance, and community-based programs to support sustainable management across the state.
🛡️ Strengthening Resilience
Developing strategies to help Connecticut’s forests and urban canopies adapt to a changing climate, pests, and extreme weather events.
🌳 Building Stewardship
Empowering communities and landowners through long-term education and inclusive programs that ensure our forests remain healthy and productive for generations.
Strengthening Resilience
We help forests and communities prepare for environmental change and extreme events. Through monitoring, climate-smart management, restoration, and invasive species control, we support forests that can better withstand storms, heat, fragmentation, and long-term climate stress.
Adaptive Silviculture
Help forests adjust to changing conditions while maintaining biodiversity, productivity, and long-term health through climate-adaptive practices.
Stormwise
Implementing proper long-term management practices in woodlands along utility corridors to reduce the risk of tree-related storm damage to power.
Disaster Preparedness
Anticipate risk, and access resources that help communities, landowners, and professionals prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters affecting forests.
Building Stewardship
Healthy forests rely on informed and engaged people. We provide the knowledge, skills, and partnerships needed for responsible forest stewardship. Through initiatives, trainings, and technical assistance, we help communities and landowners across Connecticut manage both traditional woodlands and urban forests with confidence.
Forests
Planting trees and nurturing the iconic White Oak to support healthy forests and resilient communities.
Landowners
Training landowners and managers in sustainable forest care through the Master Woodland Manager program.
Communities
Advancing sustainable forestry and community resilience through collaborative research with UConn partners