…Bob Seymour has promoted an ecological approach to forestry for more than three decades. In 1991 he and conservation biologist Malcolm Hunter, also of the University of Maine at Orono, gave a presentation at a national convention about a new model they called Triad Forestry. It was a time, Seymour remembered, when forestry issues were particularly charged, in part because of growing concern about climate change. “Foresters tend to want to manage every acre,” he said. The profession was wrestling with the concept of what was then called New Forestry, with its more hands-off approach. In the Triad model, forest lands are managed using three different timbering strategies. Some are logged commercially — business as usual, including heavy cutting and the creation of tree plantations. Others are set aside as natural reserves. The final portion is logged but managed with selective harvesting that maintains natural forest habitat: ecological forestry or a similar model.