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August 27, 2020

2020-2021 Bullard Fellows Announced

A scientist sits on the forest floor, writing data on a clipboard

We are pleased to announce the Harvard Forest Charles Bullard Fellows for 2020-2021. The mission of the Bullard Fellowship Program is to support advanced research and study by individuals who show promise of making an important contribution--either as scholars or administrators--to forestry and forest-related subjects, from biology to earth sciences, economics, politics, law, and the arts and humanities. 

September 4, 2013

Field Trip for New England Foresters

NESAF field trip, August 2013

On August 24, twenty foresters representing every state in New England toured the Harvard Forest as part of the New England Society of American Foresters' silvicultural working group. Harvard Forest site coordinator and licensed forester Audrey Barker-Plotkin led the day-long tour.

The group got an in-depth look at a number of Harvard Forest's major long-term experiments, including the

November 10, 2012

"Nature Wars" Author to Speak at Fisher Museum

Nature Wars book cover

If you are among the more than four thousand drivers who will hit a deer today, or beavers have flooded your backyard, or bears have looted your bird feeders, then you won't want to miss Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds.

Join award-winning journalist and author Jim Sterba for

June 28, 2012

Video Series Features Global Change Research

Harvard Forest ragweed video

A new series of Harvard Forest videos features HF global change studies ranging from butterfly population dynamics to public health. The videos were designed for students, the media, and other public audiences, and were produced by Roberto Mighty of Celestial Media with support from the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program.

Watch:

  • Changing Butterfly Habitat in Massachusetts
May 24, 2012

Journalists Dig into Ecology at the Harvard Forest

Logan Science journalists at work

As part of a hands-on course in global change research, six science journalists from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Logan Science Journalism Program spent 3 days at the Harvard Forest in May, working alongside scientists to count Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, measure tree seedlings in herbivore exclosures, quantify carbon dioxide fluxes from a soil warming experiment, and core down to

November 1, 2011

Expanding Research on the Impacts of Deer and Moose

Using horses for scientific research at Simes

Four new pairs of deer and moose fence exclosures have been constructed in mature oak and hemlock stands at the Forest. These new undisturbed sites complement existing exclosures built in recently logged stands at Harvard Forest, on DCR Watershed Land, and in Northern CT. The study, led by Highstead ecologist Ed Faison and Steve DeStefano of the Mass. Cooperative Fish

October 1, 2010

New Harvard Forest Publication: Moose and Deer Exclosures in Massachusetts and Connecticut

A stroll through a recent patch cut or shelterwood harvest in Massachusetts or northern Connecticut reveals not only prolific tree regeneration but an astonishing level of ungulate browsing. To what extent moose and deer browsing is altering forest development in these regenerating stands is a question that Harvard Forest researcher, Ed Faison; Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit leader, Stephen

February 1, 2010

Wildlife Pictures from Exclosure Cameras

Moose photo closeup

In the fall of 2008, Harvard Forest researcher and Highstead ecologist, Ed Faison along with Greta VanScoy mounted flashless digital game cameras on the moose and deer exclosures north of Fisher House and off Locust Opening Road. The goals were to document

  • the relative use of the unfenced plots by deer and moose,
  • the use of the partial exclosures by deer and
  • any
February 1, 2010

New Harvard Forest Publication: Moose in Southern New England

After being extirpated from southern New England during the colonial period, moose have recently returned, establishing an important new disturbance to the region's temperate forests. In the first publication of moose foraging ecology in southern New England, Harvard Forest researchers Ed Faison, David Foster, and Glenn Motzkin along with US Fish and Wildlife biologist, John McDonald quantify moose foraging selectivity

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

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