"Originally funded by the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), a competitive research grant program for the
Northern Forest jointly managed by The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont
and the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station, Hubbard Brook Project. ACORN is currently maintained and supported by the Department of Natural Resources Conservation's ACORN project, which is supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, grant number 2006-55101-16564
