Northeastern States Research Cooperative

**Mission and History** The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) is a competitive grant program for Northern Forest research, jointly directed through the USDA Forest Service, [Northern Research Station](https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/), the [Hubbard Brook Research Foundation](http://hubbardbrookfoundation.org/), and a designated institution in each of the four Northern Forest states: the [Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources](http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr) at the University of Vermont, the [University of New Hampshire](https://colsa.unh.edu/nren), the [Center for Research on Sustainable Forests](http://www.crsf.umaine.edu) at the University of Maine, and the State University of New York [College of Environmental Science and Forestry](http://www.esf.edu). Since 2001, the NSRC has awarded more than 300 research grants, totaling more than $23 million, to researchers throughout the region. **Mission** The NSRC supports cross-disciplinary, collaborative research in the Northern Forest — a 26-million acre working landscape that is home to about two million residents and stretches from eastern Maine through New Hampshire and Vermont and into northern New York. Broad research goals are stipulated in the NSRC congressional authorization ([Public Law 105-185](https://nsrcforest.org/governance#authorization)). A central component of the program is the importance of the Northern Forest to society and the need for research activities to have relevance and benefit to "the people who live within its boundaries, work with its resources, use its products, visit it, and care about it."