General Acknowledgments

The Symposium on Climate Change in Maine’s Mountains, which catalyzed this special issue, was supported by The Betterment Fund, High Peaks Initiative, Onion Foundation, Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, and the Maine Community Foundation Buck Family Fund. Symposium information is available online https://mainemountaincollaborative.org/symposiums-and-webinars/. Peter Selmayr produced artwork featured on the cover of this issue. We thank the conference speakers, including keynote presenter L. Rustad, US Forest Service. The Symposium and breakout sessions benefitted from the work of several facilitators who co-organized sessions: Hannah Webber, Alyssa Soucy, Ruth van Kampen, and Kevin Duffy at the University of Maine. The Symposium Organizing Committee was Bryan Wentzell, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Jay Wason, Rachel Hovel, Abe Miller-Rushing, David Miller, Sarah Nelson. We thank Keith Goldfarb at Northeastern Naturalist for supporting article submissions and assisting with planning of this special issue, as well as the editors who coordinated individual paper reviews and the peer reviewers who provided valuable feedback towards improving the content provided herein. Finally, we thank the paper submitters, whose appreciation for the mountains of the Northeast inspired these studies.