Northern Forest Atlas

Northern Forest Atlas The Northern Forest Atlas produces graphic tools for naturalists and ecologists in order to educate on the Northern Forest of northeastern North America.

The Northern Forest Atlas is a joint project of the Northern Forest Atlas Foundation and the Adirondack Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. It is designed to produce graphic tools for naturalists and ecologists in order to educate on the Northern Forest of northeastern North America, which extends from eastern Maine and the Maritimes to the edge of the prairies in Minnesota and Manitoba.

In contains, besides forests, beaches, barrens, cliffs, marshes, swamps, bogs, farms, grasslands, lakes and ponds, and, on the highest eastern mountains, small amounts of krummholz and tundra. It is large, diverse, and surprisingly continuous. By any standard it is a great forest. In a world in which much forest has been lost or damaged, and where natural carbon storage is critical to the future of the planet, it is also a very important one.

Heat doesn't just make humans sticky and uncomfortable.
06/18/2024

Heat doesn't just make humans sticky and uncomfortable.

Dr. Richard Ross Shaker, a SUNY ESF professor, says extreme heat events, risks of flooding and wildfires are the new normal due to climate change.

It's getting closer to this time of year. POISON-IVY, Toxicodendron sp.
06/11/2024

It's getting closer to this time of year.
POISON-IVY, Toxicodendron sp.

This is fabulous.
06/04/2024

This is fabulous.

Life in the northern forest is up here too. Thank you, stewards.
06/04/2024

Life in the northern forest is up here too. Thank you, stewards.

05/29/2024
You never know what you'll find in the northern forest. Or in this case, what Jill Broderick did find.
05/22/2024

You never know what you'll find in the northern forest. Or in this case, what Jill Broderick did find.

Today in the northern forest.
05/21/2024

Today in the northern forest.

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The Northern Forest Atlas website contains about 5,000 photos, 36 videos, three digital atlases totaling 2,200 pages and containing about 4,000 images, and about 25 large-format charts. The imagery currently includes woody plants, mosses, sedges, and landscapes. All are available for free download from the website, and may be used for any personal, educational, or nonprofit use. We also have book-length photographic guides and folding charts for mosses, sedges, and woody plants, produced in partnership with Cornell University Press, for sale.

Our current projects are a photographic guide and a digital atlas of grasses, and our first ecological field guide, to woody plants, both in progress and scheduled for 2022. Beyond, we are planning a guide to ecological patterns, and ecological field guides to mosses and sedges.