The Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest and Interpretive Trails will be CLOSED on November 7-8, November 11-15, and December 4-5, 2020.
The Southern Pine Ecology and Management Research Work Unit (SRS-RWU-4159), headquartered on the University of Arkansas campus at Monticello, Arkansas, continues a tradition of research on plants, wildlife, and soils in pine-dominated forests of the southeastern United States. Our emphasis is on mixed loblolly-shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests of the West Gulf Coastal Plain in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and the shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests of the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
News & Events
When Birds Attack Snakes
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s … birds attacking a Jamaican boa? In a recent study by USDA Forest Service scientists Richard Schaefer and Craig Rudolph (retired), along with colleagues from Jamaica and Washington, DC, the previously undocumented mobbing of Jamaican boas is brought to scientific light.
Latest Publications
- Naval stores: A history of an early industry created from the South's forests
Barnett, James P. - Correlates of snake entanglement in erosion control blankets
Ebert, Sarah E.; Jobe, Kasey L.; Schalk, Christopher M.; Saenz, Daniel ; Adams, Cory K.; Comer, Christopher E. - Silvicultural options in forests of the southern United States under changing climatic conditions
Guldin, James M. - Restoration of native fire-adapted southern pine-dominated forest ecosystems: diversifying the tools in the silvicultural toolbox
Guldin, James M. - Potential of natural-origin loblolly pine tree fractions as a bioenergy feedstock
Mandalika, A. ; Bragg, D. ; Schuler, J. ; Baker, D. ; Elder, T. ; Groom, L.