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News & Highlights
February 27, 2025

Short Film to Premiere at Harvard Forest on April 3: Views From a Woodlot

Image shows a path through the woods with the words "Views From a Woodlot" in white text. Photographer unknown.

Join us on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00pm for the premiere screening of Views From a Woodlot, a documentary short film by Chris Hardee that profiles longtime forester Bruce Spencer, who stewarded Massachusetts' 100,000-acre Quabbin Reservation for over 40 years. Now retired, Spencer has daily visits to the 150-acre woodlot that he stewards, guided by the same low-impact forest management philosophy

February 24, 2025

New Partnership with Blackstone Watershed Collaborative to Support High School Forestry Program

Image shows Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Audrey Barker Plotkin, left, showing a map to several students in the forest. By Dave Orwig.

Harvard Forest is excited to partner with the Blackstone Watershed Collaborative (BWC) to provide educational tours as part of their "Building Worcester's Future Foresters: Youth Workforce Development in Urban Forestry" grant. This Rooting Resilience award, granted by River Network but currently under review by the federal government, will allow BWC to partner with Worcester Technical High School in piloting a new

February 18, 2025

Data Literacy Workshops Help Educators Tell a Story with Schoolyard Data

Image shows Schoolyard Ecology workshop participants sitting at a table.

This winter the Schoolyard Ecology program hosted two data literacy workshops for participating educators, one in Petersham for western and central Massachusetts educators, and one in Cambridge at the Harvard Natural History Museum for eastern Mass folks. The workshop theme was data storytelling: What is the narrative that your Schoolyard Ecology data is telling? Harvard Forest ecologists provided training,

February 13, 2025

Join us Saturday March 8 for Seasonal Traditional Storytelling

Image shows a black gum swamp covered in ice, snow, and water, with sunlight filtering through. By David Foster.

Seasonal Traditional Storytelling at Harvard Forest
March 8th 1:30-3:00 pm 
Harvard Forest Fisher Museum
324 N Main St., Petersham, MA 01366
Free and open to all!
Suggested $10 donation 

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Come join our Indigenous Education Specialist

February 10, 2025

Harvard Forest Announces 2025-2026 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research

Image shows 2023-2024 Bullard Fellows in Harvard Forest's Fisher Museum.

The Charles Bullard fellowship program supports advanced research and study by individuals who show promise of making an important contribution to forestry and forest-related subjects including biology, earth sciences, economics, politics, administration, philosophy, humanities, the arts, or law.

Harvard Forest is pleased to announce the upcoming 2025-2026 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. Over the course of their fellowships, we'll

January 29, 2025

Winter Interns Advance Harvard Forest Research and Education Initiatives

Image shows 2025 Wintersession students, from left to right: Hailey Akey, Spurty Kamath, Eve Farrell, Sophia Rey, Lana Romanova, and Aditya Bhayana.

In January, Harvard Forest hosted six Harvard University students for Wintersession Internships across a variety of disciplines.

Collectively discussing their work to the Harvard Forest community at a Lab Group on January 22, the interns presented on the research projects listed below.

Research on Environmental Education: Schoolyard Ecology and STEM Identity
Aditya Bhayana; Harvard Kennedy School

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Explore Our Work

IN THE WOODS

Focus on Phenology
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/other-tags/phenology

LONG-TERM STUDIES

85 Acres, 116,000 Trees
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/other-tags/mega-plot

STUDENT PROGRAMS

Winter Opportunities for Harvard Students
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate-students

CONSERVATION SCIENCE

Envisioning the Future Landscape
https://harvardforest-prod.ats.cloud.huit.harvard.edu/policy-land-use

JOIN OUR TEAM!

Jobs & Fellowships Open Now
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/employment

Wildlife Cam

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Young Moose Browsing
Moose Browsing
Wildlife Trail Cameras at Harvard Forest - Feb/March 2016
Wildlife Trail Cameras at Harvard Forest - Feb/March 2016
Deer Browsing
Deer Browsing
Raccoon
Raccoon at Night
Turkeys with young grazing
Turkey with Young Grazing
Wildlife Trail Cameras at Harvard Forest - February 2016
Wildlife Montage - February 2016

Webcams

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Below Canopy
Below Canopy
Witness Tree
Witness Tree
EMS Tower
EMS Tower
Harvard Farm North 2
Harvard Farm North 2
EMS Tower 2
EMS Tower 2
Hemlock Tower SW
Hemlock Tower SW
Hemlock Tower NE
Hemlock Tower NE
Barn Tower 2
Barn Tower 2
Neon Top of Tower
Neon Top of Tower
NEON Bottom of Tower
NEON Bottom of Tower
Barn Tower
Barn Tower
Harvard Farm North
Harvard Farm North

Real Time Data

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8. Snowpack
8. Snowpack
1. Temperature & Humidity
1. Temperature & Humidity
4. Precipitation
4. Precipitation
3. Wind Speed
3. Wind Speed
7. Water Temperature
7. Water Temperature
2. Radiation
2. Radiation
5. Stream Discharge
5. Stream Discharge
6. Wetland Water Level
6. Wetland Water Level

Events at Harvard Forest

See a list of our upcoming seminars & events:

Spring Seminar Series

Future Events

Initiatives & Partner Organizations

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