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In late April, 25 community volunteers completed a three-day workshop at the Harvard Forest as part of the Massachusetts Keystone Program. The program trains forest landowners and community opinion leaders to be local advocates of conservation, and to help inform the land management and conservation decisions of their friends, neighbors, organizations, and communities. 

The annual training covers subjects such as forest

Go Botany--a free website developed by former HF Bullard Fellow Elizabeth Farnsworth and the New England Wild Flower Society--is an interactive, online field guide to more than 3,000 native and naturalized plants in New England.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the website is meant to be used by anyone from botanical beginners to trained professionals.

A special issue of the journal BioScience, guest-edited by David Foster, highlights the globally important role of the LTER network as it enters its fourth decade--including new research by Jonathan Thompson, linking land development trends to reduced forest carbon.

Long-term data from the Harvard Forest are incorporated throughout the six-article BioScience feature on LTER.

• Northeast regional press release: Scientists Forecast

A recent paper by David Orwig, Jonathan Thompson, David Foster, and several former Summer Research Program students discusses the factors influencing the spread of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) in central New England hemlock forests. 

Using aerial photographs, they investigated over 86,000 hectares (more than 200,000 acres) of hemlock forest in Central Mass. and subsampled 123 stands to