Our Mission Statement

"We call upon the University of New Brunswick to put a moratorium on development in the Woodlot and preserve the majority of the UNB Woodlot as an uninterrupted wildlife refuge and outdoor teaching lab. Development should stop until extensive, meaningful public participation is coordinated by University of New Brunswick."

The Friends of the UNB Woodlot


Great Institutions across North America Boast of their RESEARCH & TEACHING FORESTS! For example:

UNB WOODLOT (Fredericton, NB) - 3850 acres
http://www.unbf.ca/forestry/unbwoodlot.php

McGILL's GAULT NATURE RESERVE - 1000 hectares
http://www.mcgill.ca/gault/

HARVARD FOREST (Boston, Mass.) - 3000 acres
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/

STANFORD's JASPER RIDGE ECOLOGICAL PRESERVE - 1200 acres
ttp://jrbp.stanford.edu/

INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TEACHING PRESERVE (Bloomington, Indiana) - 1150 acres
http://www.indiana.edu/~preserve/index.shtml

Development of this land was reversed by Faculty lobbying the Administration. "Our extended green campus is a unique strength of Indiana University." "In May of 2001 the Indiana University Board of Trustees--with strong support of students, faculty, and administration - established the Research and Teaching Preserve (RTP) to enhance the research, teaching, and service missions of the university. Indiana University has a national reputation for field-based research, particularly in the biological and environmental sciences. There is growing national and international emphasis on environmental issues whose solutions require observational and experimental studies of fundamental processes in the natural world. The establishment of the RTP recognizes and affirms that all scientific research is not done in a lab and that all teaching is not done in the classroom."

McGILL’s MORGAN ARBORETUM - 245 hectares
http://www.morganarboretum.org/

McGILL's MOLSON RESERVE - 51 hectares
http://www.mcgill.ca/macdonald/about/resources/molson/