The scientific value of Blodgett has grown with the corresponding increase of the demands on natural resources. Blodgett Forest research has a fifty-year history which includes studies of tree growth, forest succession, harvesting costs, forest insect and disease dynamics, forest ecology, wildlife population dynamics, range animal dynamics, control of non-tree vegetation, thinning and spacing of commercial conifers, soil compaction from logging operations, effects and techniques of prescribed fire, conifer regeneration methods, harvesting methods, nutrient cycling, and much more.

The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study is an NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and USFS Experimental Forest located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Hubbard Brook is among the longest running (52 years) and most comprehensive ecosystem studies in the world.