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On Wednesday, September 14, a lecture by HF Director David Foster will kick off a year of programming at the Harvard Museum of Natural History for their new exhibit on New England Forests. David’s lecture will draw on more than a century of research from the Harvard Forest about the challenges and choices we face in planning our forests’ future. The

Debby Kaspari, Harvard Forest’s first Bullard Fellow with a focus on art, has been engaged since March on a series of pastel drawings she’s calling “Ghosts in the Forest: an artist’s narrative of New England historical sites in various stages of reclamation by nature.” Field and archive work

Another article in a series of papers describing findings from the Harvard Forest long term Hemlock Removal Experiment has been published in Ecosphere. In this paper, a group of researchers including Harvard Forest Senior Researcher Aaron Ellison, and post-docs Sydne Record and Ben Baiser, look at the effects of the hemlock woolly adelgid and pre-emptive salvage logging on communities of

A new paper by Mark Rickenbach (University of Wisconsin Madison, and a recent Bullard Fellow), David Kittredge (HF Forest Policy analyst), Bill Labich (regional Conservationist, Highstead), and two others, outlines the reasons why cooperating on land management across boundaries is a superior way to conserve ecosystem services. Ecosystem patterns and processes don't start or stop at individual private property boundaries,