Welcome to MAFES
The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station powers research inspired by Maine. The Station strives to enhance the profitability and sustainability of Maine’s natural resource-based industries, protect Maine’s environment, and improve the health of its citizens. The station supports faculty members who use cutting-edge tools to address emerging and longstanding challenges in agriculture and food sciences, forestry and wood products, fisheries and aquaculture, wildlife, outdoor recreation, and rural economic development. Other research programs strive to protect Maine’s environment, promote public health, and assist rural communities. The station’s use-inspired research has a proven track record for developing new knowledge that fuels innovation in Maine’s businesses and communities
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Land acknowledgement
The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Stations are located in the homeland of the Wabanaki Alliance (Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Nations). The Wabanaki Alliance has distinct, sovereign, legal and political entities with their own powers of self-governance and self-determination. Issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites, are ongoing.