The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies manages 10,880 acres (4403 hectares) of forestland in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The goals of this ownership are to provide educational, research, and professional opportunities for faculty and students as well as to serve as an asset to the School’s investment portfolio. Most of the School Forests are mixed hardwoods (central hardwoods in the south and northern hardwoods in Vermont), but extensive stands of conifers exist, including some plantations mostly in New Hampshire. Almost all New England soil conditions are found throughout these forests from wetlands to droughty alluvial sand deposits. Faculty and students use the School Forests as a laboratory for teaching, management, and research. A member of the faculty serves as director. A forest manager and students working as interns in an apprentice forester program carry out all management activities. The forest is maintained as a working forest, which includes selling timber and non-timber forest products from the land.