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March 1, 2009

Harvard Forest collaborates to help protect 1865 acres through the Quabbin Corridor Connection Forest legacy project

Quabbin in mist

A partnership led by Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust working with Harvard Forest, Massachusetts Audubon Society, many landowners, the towns of Petersham and Phillipston, state agencies (DCR and DFG) and the U.S. Forest Service has completed the Quabbin Corridor Connection Forest Legacy project, which protects 1865 acres and provides critical links to protected corridors in the North Quabbin

March 1, 2009

Twentieth Annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium

Pisgah Tree

The twentieth annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium will be held March 17, 2009 from 9:00am - 5:00pm at the Harvard Forest. This year's symposium will feature talks and discussion on synthesizing Harvard Forest LTER research.

February 1, 2009

New Harvard Forest Publication: Understory Vegetation in Old and Second Growth Hemlock Forests

Former REU (2000) and Ph.D. student (2007) Tony D'Amato along with HF ecologists David Orwig and David Foster recently compared the understory communities (herbs, shrubs, and tree seedlings and saplings) of old-growth and second-growth eastern hemlock forests (Tsuga canadensis) in western Massachusetts, USA. Second-growth hemlock forests originated following clearcut logging in the late 1800s and were 108 to 136 years

February 1, 2009

New grant for climate change research

The Department of Energy's National Center for Climate Change Research has awarded $160,000 to Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison and Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Fitzpatrick for a two-year study to develop models that forecast changes in the distribution and abundance of tree species in eastern North American forests under historic and future climate change. Changes in tree species distributions coincident

February 1, 2009

HF Schoolyard Ecology Teacher Receives Award

Schoolyard Award Winners

The New England Environmental Education Alliance (NEEEA) presented the NEEA 2008 Formal Educator Award to Katherine Bennett, a teacher at J.R. Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Kate has integrated real world science and out of doors study into her classes by working with researchers at the Harvard Forest on a variety of projects focused on forest environments, the hemlock

January 1, 2009

Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation

CHW Foster Cover

The new book, Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation - A Heritage of Civic Engagement edited by Harvard Forest Associate Charles H.W. Foster will be available March 2009. Written by and about New Englanders, this book is relevant to others attempting to address conservation problems on a regional basis. These are the stories of people acting the New England way—recognizing a

January 1, 2009

Jim Levitt and Program on Conservation Innovation Honored at the Yale School of Management

Jim Levitt

Jim Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest was recently selected as one of five Donaldson Fellows at Yale University's School of Management, where he received his masters degree in 1980. The Donaldson Fellowship Program recognizes accomplished graduates and brings them to Yale to impart their work and life experiences on current students and

January 1, 2009

Harvard Forest launches Moose and Deer Study

Moose in the exclosure

Harvard Forest has erected a series of exclosures in recently harvested conifer plantations on the Prospect Hill Tract to measure the long-term effects of moose and deer browsing on forest regeneration and development in the region. After being extirpated from Massachusetts for almost 200 years, moose have reestablished breeding populations in the past 15-20 years, and along with an expanding

December 1, 2008

New Harvard Forest Publication: Bog Research Reveals Useful Indicators of Atmospheric Deposition

Geographic trends in surface water chemistry and leaf tissue nutrients may reflect gradients of nutrient limitation and broad-scale anthropogenic inputs. Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison and his colleagues at the University of Vermont measured nutrient and metal concentrations in pore-water and in leaf tissues of three common bog plant genera - leather-leaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata), northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea),

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