The Massabesic Experimental Forest (MEF) is located in two major units in the Maine towns of Alfred, Lyman, Hollis, and Dayton, roughly 25 miles southwest of Portland, ME. The 3,676-acre forest was established in the late 1930s as a site for U.S. Forest Service research on the ecology and management of white pine, much of it on abandoned agricultural lands covered by ‘old-field’ pine. The October 1947 fires that swept across much of southwestern Maine also burned much of the MEF. After the 1947 fires, traditional management studies (shelterwood, diameter-limit, patch cuts, and strip cuts) were augmented with re-establishment studies of white pine, competition removal, and chemical control, as well as white pine weevil control, woodlot management, and white pine and paper birch thinning studies. Today, with the continued interest in managing New England oak-pine resources, MEF management studies have been re-installed and available as demonstration areas and sites for future research