Considerations in the Selection and Use of Indicators for Sustaining Forests by John M. Hagan and Andrew A. Whitman. NCSSF Report August 2007 (PDF version)
	Biodiversity Indicators for Sustainable Forestry: Simplifying Complexity. By John M. Hagan and Andrew A. Whitman. Journal of Forestry 2006 vol 104:203-210. (access PDF from Society of American Foresters web)
	Do small headwater streams have a riparian zone defined by plant communities? By John M. Hagan, Sascha Pealer, and Andrew A. Whitman. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 2006 vol. 36: 2131–2140. (Download PDF)
	The Effectiveness of Different Buffer Widths for Protecting Headwater Stream Temperature By Ethel Wikerson, John M. Hagan, Darlene Siegel, and Andrew A. Whitman Forest Science 2005 vol 52:221-231. (Download PDF)
	Changing Timberland Ownership in the Northern Forest and Implications for Biodiversity By John M. Hagan, Lloyd C. Irland, and Andrew A. Whitmam 2005 (download PDF ~3 MB)
	A Rapid-Assessment Late-Successional Index for Northern Hardwoods and Spruce-Fir Forest By Andrew A. Whitman and John M. Hagan click below to download: Main document (PDF) Northern Hardwoods Index Insert (PDF) Spruce-fir Index Insert (PDF)
	Late-successional Forest: A disappearing age class and implications for biodiversity. By John M. Hagan and Andrew A. Whitman Click here for pdf List of related scientific papers
	A Primer on Selecting Biodiversity Indicators for Forest Sustainability: Simplifying Complexity By John M. Hagan and Andrew A. Whitman Click here for the pdf
	The Effectiveness of Stand-level and Landscape-level Variables for Explaining Bird Occurrence in and Industrial Forest (Forest Science 48:231-242) By John M. Hagan and Amy L. Meehan (request reprint from the author)
	Information Priorities for Forest Structure: Results of the Forest Ecosystem Information Exchange Survey By John M. Hagan, Robert G. Wagner, and Harold Daniel Download the PDF version.
	A process for identifying species at risk in forested landscapes By J. Michael Reed, John M. Hagan, and Andrew A. Whitman Download the PDF version.
	Forest structure in upland and riparian buffer strips in western Maine By John M. Hagan and Andrew A. Whitman This PDF file is too large to post. Please request by e-mail from the author.
	Microclimate changes across upland and riparian clearcut-forest boundaries in Maine By John M. Hagan and Andrew A. Whitman Download the pdf file.
	Herbaceous plant communities in upland and riparian forest remnants in western Maine By Andrew A. Whitman and John M. Hagan Download the pdf file.
	Do forested buffer strips protect headwater stream temperature in western Maine? By John M. Hagan Download the pdf file.
	Water temperature profile of a western Maine headwater stream with adjacent clearcuts By John M. Hagan Download the pdf file.
	Bird Abundance and Distribution in Managed and Old-growth Forest in Maine By John M. Hagan and Stacie L. Grove This report summarizes 4 years of bird surveys in Maine's industrial forest.  Habitats are divided into early-successional even-age forest, partial cut forest, mature forest, and old-growth forest.  Data were collected in two landscapes, one dominated by clearcutting, and the other dominated by partial cutting.  Birds are separated into categories based on which harvest type and forest age the were most frequently encountered. Download PDF file. Contact the authors.

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• The Early Development of Forest Fragmentation Effects on Birds. 1996.
• Clearcutting in Maine: Would Somebody Please Ask the Right Question? 1996.
• 1995 Report: Selection Cutting, Old-Growth, Birds, and Forest Structure in Maine. 1996.
• Diversity and Abundance of Landbirds in a Northeastern Industrial Forest. 1997.
• Harvest Rate, Configuration, and Forest Fragmentation: A Simulation of the 1989 Maine Forest Practices Act. 1997.
• Coarse Woody Debris: Humans and Nature Competing for Trees.1999.
• Conservation Sciences - A Magazine of Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences.

The Early Development of Forest Fragmentation Effects on Birds. 1996.

We developed a conceptual and mathematical model of the temporal effects of forest fragmentation on bird populations. We provide support for the model using abundance data for several forest bird species and reproductive success data for the Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillius), collected in an industrial forest landscape in northcentral Maine.

John M. Hagan, W. Matthew Vander Haegen, and Peter S. McKinley. Conservation Biology, February 1996, Vol. 10, No. 1, pages 188-202.

Clearcutting in Maine: Would Somebody Please Ask the Right Question? 1996.

Maine has been embroiled in considerable debate over the Green Party initiated referendum on forest practices in Maine. Better known as the clearcutting referendum, its supporters and opponents have staked out their terms in what has become the bitter debate over "jobs for Maine people" versus the "future of the North Maine Woods."

Amidst the deluge of media campaigns and ideologic predictions, rest important questions about forest management practices and how best to ensure a viable future for the people and forests of Maine. In this document, John Hagan contributes a perspective to this debate.

John M. Hagan. Maine Policy Review, July 1996, Vol. 5, No. 2, pages 7-20.

1995 Report: Selection Cutting, Old-Growth, Birds, and Forest Structure in Maine. 1996.

This report contains an overview of results from a study begun in 1995 to examine the effects of partial cutting on forest structure and birds. The study was initiated to provide the public with better information on which to formulate forest policy in Maine.

In this study we surveyed birds and numerous structural characteristics of forests under several different partial cutting conditions, as well as in virgin forest.

John M. Hagan and Stacie L. Grove. Manomet Technical Report Series, March 1996, Report # MODCF-96002, 26 pages.

Diversity and Abundance of Landbirds in a Northeastern Industrial Forest. 1997.

This report documents how landbird species use an industrial forest landscape in northern Maine. We relate diversity and abundance of landbird species to habitat types, ranging from recent clearcuts to mature hardwood and softwood forests of Maine. We also relate species abundance to landscape level parameters, such as the amount of early successional forest within a 1-km radius of the sampling location. Based on habitat changes in a portion of Maine's industrial forest over the last decade, we estimate how bird species' abundances might have changed. And finally, we compare our estimates of species changes with population trends derived from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data for the state of Maine.

John M. Hagan, Peter S. McKinley, Amy L. Meehan, and Stacie L. Grove. Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 61, No. 3, pages 718-735.

Harvest Rate, Configuration, and Forest Fragmentation: A Simulation of the 1989 Maine Forest Practices Act. 1997.

This report contains the results of modeling which simulated the effects of five clearcutting regimes at various annual harvest rates ranging from 1.00% to 2.5% on the configuration and amount of mature forest in a hypothetical township (6 x 6 mi) in Maine. Employed in the modeling were all the buffer and separation zone restrictions on clearcutting as dictated by the 1989 Maine Forest Practices Act (MFPA).

John M. Hagan and Randall Boone. Manomet Technical Report Series, March 1996, Report # MCDCF-97001, 17 pages.

Coarse Woody Debris: Humans and Nature Competing for Trees. 

Foresters have long fought the agents of tree mortality. Managing for dead wood, however, may be essential to meeting the biogiversity goals of sustainable forestry. Listed guidelines can help foresters find a balance.

John Hagan and Stacie L. Grove. Journal of Forestry, January 1999, Vol. 97. No. 1, pages 6-11.

Conservation Sciences - A Magazine of Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences.

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