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• Secretary Perdue Applauds President Trump’s Selection for USDA’s Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment — USDA Office of Communications
• Study: Southwest Wildfires Boost Stream Flows — KJZZ
• Community Garden provides space, food, friendships — The Oxford Eagle
• For Endangered Florida Tree, How Far to Go to Save a Species? — Yale Environment 360
• Forest Land Managers Rely On Science — The Transylvania Times
• Team mobilizes to save rare Florida torreya — Tallahassee Democrat
• Coyotes flourish in South Carolina as some neighborhoods worry about encounters — The Post and Courier
• An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish the DNA to take over the world — Science Magazine
• Visiting Our Past: A look back through Bent Creek's oaks — Asheville Citizen-Times
• WNC forests face threat of erratic and extreme weather as climate changes — Carolina Public Press
• After the Storm, Who Takes Care of the Trees? — USDA Blog
• Brazil’s Moon Tree Warrior — Discover Magazine
• Why are coyote populations difficult to control? — EurekAlert
• Nonprofit helps landowners blend economics and ecology — Asheville Citizen-Times
• NASA Develops Early Warning System for Detecting Forest Disturbances — MathWorks
• Potential threat: Researchers identify tree species most vulnerable to climate change — Nursery Management
• Happiness Is a Walk in the Park — Live Happy
• Trees in eastern US head west as climate changes — Nature
• Forests in Flux — NC State News
• American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why — The Atlantic
• Go west, young pine: US forests shifting with climate change — Associated Press
• SREL partners with U.S. Forest Service teach prescribed burn course to college students at SRS — The Augusta Chronicle
• Free tree pruning workshop in Lexington teaches proper maintenance — The Lane Report
• Native plants find new homes after Pee Dee research ends — Clemson University Newsstand
• As record Appalachian wildfires fizzle out, scientists look to learn from the destruction — Science Magazine
• WSB study: Coyote predation not the main source of declining deer in S.C. — The Wildlife Society
• Bent Creek study tests method for reversing oak decline — Mountain Xpress
• Silencing the Song Dogs — Greenville Journal
• The Southeast Is Becoming A Wildfire Hotspot — FiveThirtyEight
• This Georgia drought bears the mark of fire — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• The raging wildfires in the Southeast could be a glimpse of what’s to come — The Washington Post
• How big droughts, forest fires could be the new normal in Appalachia — PBS NewsHour
• Sap-sucking Bugs Threaten Hemlock Forests — NASA Earth Observatory
• McCrory declares State of Emergency for western NC wildfires — Daily Tarheel
• EFETAC 2016 Research Highlights — EFETAC
• How Does Research Environment Shape Science and Life Outside of Science? — Entomology Today
• Carpenters students take advantage of outdoor classroom — The Daily Times
• Mending a Native Food Web — North Carolina Health News
• Forest farming can bring economic, environmental benefits to WNC — Mountain Xpress
• Asheville science writer wins top federal award — Asheville Citizen-Times
• Regional bat surveys play a larger role in bat research — KSTK News
• UK Forest Health Center shares in $3 million grant — University of Kentucky Ag News
• An Army of Beetles Could Save Dying Hemlock Forests — Scientific American
• Coyotes and deer fawn depredation — Carolina Sportsman
• Kudzu’s entanglement of South begins to unravel — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Managing forests could be a key to handling future droughts — The Post and Courier
• Clemson scientists, collaborators working to restore longleaf pine forests — Clemson University
• "How William The Worm Got Himself Into A Pickle — NPR
• Local nonprofit declares war on the hemlock woolly adelgid — Mountain Xpress
• What California Can Learn From How the South Manages Wildfires — The Atlantic CityLab
• Bracing For Fire — The Huffington Post
• Crossett draws forestry experts from overseas — Arkansas Democratic-Gazette
• 9 Ukranians 'amazed' on visit to Pisgah National Forest — Asheville Citizen-Times
• The Foodie Craze Over This Wild Onion Is Killing It — FiveThirtyEight
• Forestry group tours Drax Biomass — The News Star
• Invasive pests No. 1 threat to WNC forests — Asheville Citizen-Times
• U.S. must step-up forest pest prevention, new study says — PR Newswire
• Monarch butterflies find a welcome home in San Antonio — San Antonio Express-News
• “Very Crafty Caterpillars” by Virginia McDaniel, Forestry Technician — Our Ozarks Magazine
• Texas A&M AgriLife scientists document rare DNA transfer between animals and plants — Texas A&M AgriLife Communications
• Local student wins honors at state science fair with U.S. Forest Service partner project — Mountain Xpress
• Listen to Jeff Prestemon and Stephanie Laseter on the March News Conference for Forest Owners — Alabama Forest Owners' Association, Inc.
• Arboreal Austin: Forest Service publishes first urban forest assessment — United Press International
• The Inventory Newsletter, December 2015 — SRS FIA