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The successful release of the Wildlands and Woodlands vision for New England culminated in a standing-room only crowd at the project's regional conference in Concord, NH, on June 4. The host of the event, the New England Forestry Foundation, registered 275 attendees—landowners, scientists, forest industry professionals, conservation organizations, land trusts, philanthropists, media representatives, and policymakers. The attendees came

From July 10 to 20, artist Regan Golden-McNerny will be visually investigating what scientists know about the woods, studying both Harvard Forest and Minnechoag Mountain, a more suburban forest in Ludlow. She will draw and photograph, visit field sites with researchers, and comb the archives here at Harvard Forest - and present her drawings, notes, and photographs for students and

Congratulations to Sydne Record, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 18. Sydne will be staying on at Harvard Forest as a post-doctoral researcher, working on two aspects of vegetation response to climate change: the expansion and allergenicity of ragweed (with Kristina Stinson), and the future distribution of forest trees (with Aaron Ellison). 

Harvard Forest is pleased to announce the opening of the newly renovated, ADA-compliant Torrey Laboratory for biogeochemistry and microbial ecology. Funded by a facilities grant from the National Science Foundation, the renovation includes new facilities and equipment to support research into terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemistry, soil microbial processes, and a dedicated microscopy suite. The lab provides new facilities for generating