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April 1, 2009

Forest Ecology and Management training for Landowners

Keystone Trainees 2009

On April 23rd-26th, Harvard Forest will be hosting the annual Keystone Project training. Keystone, an effort of UMass Amherst, is an intensive three day seminar on forest ecology and management, wildlife management, land protection, and community outreach. It is designed to train landowners and community leaders in forest conservation. The goal of Keystone is to put into place in each

April 1, 2009

Harvard Forest in the News: The Forest is Back

The April 19, 2009 New York Times article "The Working Forest" features David Foster, Director and his on-going effort to promote forest conservation in a responsible, scientific and historical context. This vision has been adopted and furthered by other scientists, conservation and environmental organizations and this partnership is working together to move this vision to the all of

March 1, 2009

New Harvard Forest Publication: Climate Change, Invasive Species & Northeastern Forests

Climate models predict that by 2100, the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada will warm approximately 3-5°C, with increased winter precipitation. These changes will affect trees directly and indirectly through effects on "nuisance" species, such as insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plants. Harvard Forest Ecologist Dave Orwig and Population Ecologist Kristina Stinson recently joined a team of colleagues to review how

March 1, 2009

New Harvard Forest Publication: A Review of Carnivorous Plants

Darwin sketches

In Honor of Charles Darwin, A Review of Carnivorous Plants

As part of the festivities surrounding the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his book On the origin of species by means of natural selection, the Journal of Experimental Botany commissioned a series of review articles on topics about which Darwin wrote

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

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