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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

In this paper, former MFS student Posy Busby and HF ecologists Glenn Motzkin and Emery Boose show spatial patterns of forest response to a severe hurricane in 1944 varied predictably with respect to location relative to the storm track―sites closest to the storm track experienced lesser wind damage and exhibited minimal growth responses―whereas sites farther east of the storm track

Natural disturbances strongly influence the dynamics and developmental patterns of forest ecosystems; however, relatively little is known about the historic patterns of natural disturbance for many portions of eastern North America, such as southern New England, where human disturbance has predominated for centuries. Former Summer Research Program student (2000) and Ph.D. student (2007) Tony D'Amato along with HF forest ecologist

Harvard Forest is pleased to announce the 2008-2009 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The purpose of this fellowship program, established in 1962 by an endowment named after the benefactor Charles Bullard, is to support advanced research and study by persons who show promise of making important contributions, either as scholars or administrators, to forestry defined in its broadest sense