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• Forests to Faucets 2.0: Connecting forests, water, and communities — Blue Forest
• Nearly 90% of West depends on national forests, grasslands for drinking water — Oregon Capital Chronicle
• Invasive Jumping Worms Spreading Throughout The U.S. — Southern Living
• White Nose Syndrome - Significant Threat to Bats — USDA Radio Newsline
• Actuality: Do Not Disturb the Bats — USDA Radio Newsline
• Providing Protection for Bat Populations and Habitat — USDA Radio Newsline
• The strange, savage life of a freshwater mussel — Vox
• National forests deliver almost half of the West's drinking water supply, report shows — Wyoming Public Media
• A Rainforest of Clams — American Rivers
• Tar Heel Treasures: A walk into UNC Asheville’s edible landscape — Spectrum News 1
• Invasive snake-like ‘jumping worms’ are spreading in New Jersey — Polarbear
• Something marvelous comes to Gainesville — University of Florida
• Carbon storage in harvested wood products — Samachar Central
• Rethinking NC mountain habitat conservation in the face of climate change — Carolina Public Press
• Jumping Worms Are in Michigan: What Damage Can They Do? — WGRD 97.9
• Here’s how the pandemic gave us skyrocketing wood prices — Penn Live Patriot News
• Statement of Forest Service Chief Randy Moore Announcing Pause of Prescribed Fire Operations on National Forest System Lands — USDA Forest Service
• From The Woods Today - Mussels (Interview ft. Wendell Haag) — From the Woods Today
• Webinar - Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Using Satellite Images to Observe Forest Change (Talk with Kristen Emmett) — Asheville Science Tavern
• Jumping Worms That Leap 1 Foot Chew Away At 'The Foundation Of Life' — Patch
• US forests provide 83 million people with half their water — American Geophysical Union
• Harvest ramps responsibly to enjoy for many years to come — Macon County News
• Table Rock is burning, and it's about time — South Carolina Public Radio
• Callery pears: An invader 'worse than murder hornets!' — The Washington Post
• Invasive Jumping worms can change their world — USDA Forest Service
• Successful growth of baby mussels in Kiski River indicates continued health of waterways — TribLive
• Forest Service: Urban Environments -Hotspots- for Invasive Insects — The Outdoor Wire
• Prescribed fire science: Why it's needed now more than ever — Char-Koosta News
• Researchers develop new modeling tools for prescribed fire — Wildfire Today
• This invasive insect species could kill 1.26 million trees in the US by 2050 — World Is One News
• Prescribed fire science: Why it’s needed now more than ever — US Forest Service
• Invasive insects could kill 1.4M urban trees over the next 30 years, study says — The Hill
• Thelma Perry: Never Too Late — Mycological Society of America
• USDA researchers use smart technology to trap feral swine herds — National Hog Farmer
• Actuality: Limitations of Traditional Feral Swine Traps — USDA Radio Newsline
• Forest ThreatNet, Spring 2022 — EFETAC
• Tropical rainforests are regrowing in Puerto Rico — Today
• New Container Aids in Biocontrol of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid — Entomology Today
• Natural Forest in Coastal N.C. Becomes Carbon Source as ‘Ghost Forest’ Spreads — NC State University News
• How Coastal Forests Are Managed Can Impact Water Cycle — NC State University News
• Delta Mushrooms in all Seasons: Autumn Bloomers — Delta Wildlife (PDF; 23 MB)
• National Forests and Grasslands in Texas forest supervisor retires — The Huntsville Item
• SRS researcher Susan Loeb talks about bats with USDA Radio host Rod Bain during Bat Week — USDA Radio News
• Fighting Black Land Loss Helps Birds, Too — Audubon
• Guldin Inducted into Foresters Hall of Fame — Monticello Live
• BIGMAP: Forest Inventory and Analysis Goes Big — Natural Resources Management Today (PDF; 4.3 MB)
• With South’s ecosystems at risk, a rally around the longleaf pine — The Christian Science Monitor
• Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees — Scalawag
• Management of world’s forests must be water-centred — FAO
• Professional Affiliates Publish Review of Dam Effects — University of Mississippi Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Research
• Forest Service R&D at a Glance, FY 2021 — USDA
• National expert visits Kiski River, other waterways to install, study baby mussels — Trib Total Media
• Wild Pigs Could Trigger Decimation of US Pork Industry — Farm Journal
• Saving the Hemlock Trees in Great Smoky Mountains National Park — Great Smoky National Park Trips
• Hunters help study future of S.C. turkeys — The Times and Democrat
• Research Plots Newsletter, Spring 2021 (PDF) — SRS
• How Do Weather, Insects, and Diseases Impact Forests? It Depends (PDF) — The Forestry Source
• Other utilities cut power to reduce Labor Day fire risks. Pacific Power did not. Now it may face the consequences — The Oregonian
• How Coastal Forests Are Managed Can Impact Water Cycle — NC State University
• Leading the way: Love for nature spurred HCC’s Black forestry grads to barrier-breaking lives — Smoky Mountain News
• Podcast: The Valuable Ecological Roles of Crayfish and the Discovery of Two New Species — Backyard Ecology Podcast
• The Inventory Newsletter, January 2021 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• ‘Jim Crow’ Land Ownership Spurs Black Farmers’ Appeals to Biden — Bloomberg
• Native and Non-native Earthworms in the Eastern U.S. with Mac Callaham — Backyard Ecology Podcast
• Bear Creek dams change habitat for crayfish — Franklin Free Press
• For a Daughter of Immigrants, American Soil Offers Plenty to Forage — Zora
• After the Blaze: How Wildfires Can Impact Drinking Water — NC State News
• The Inventory Newsletter, September 2020 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• How wildfires have helped these woodpeckers make a comeback — National Geographic
• Hitchhiking seeds pose substantial risk of nonnative plant invasions — ScienceDaily
• Genetics of the tree of life — Phys.org
• “Hitchhiking Seeds” Pose Risk, Say Researchers at Savannah Port — The Maritime Executive
• Seeds of nonnative plants hitch rides on refrigerated shipping containers — United Press International
• Genetics of the Tree of Life – Understanding the African Baobab Tree — SciTechDaily
• Manual helps poultry producers with hurricane prep, recovery — WJTV
• The U.S. Forest Service is sniffing out Emerald Ash Borers — WSIL News 3
• Endangered Indiana bats losing habitat near Indiana airport — Stamford Advocate
• To save the hemlock, scientists turn to genetics and natural predators — The Washington Post
• Seeking summer real estate, endangered Indiana bats are running out of places to live — IndyStar
• Listening to What Birds are Telling Us About Sustainable Forests in East Texas — Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture
• The Inventory Newsletter, June 2020 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• The Mysterious Demise of Freshwater Mussels — Undark
• Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain — American Society of Agronomy
• The Inventory Newsletter, March 2020 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• What It Takes to Bring Back the Near Mythical American Chestnut Trees — USDA Blog
• SC wildlife officials need your help protecting bats — The Post and Courier
• Fighting for mussels: Experts are working to get to the bottom of their mysterious disappearances in the Ohio River watershed — Good River: Stories of the Ohio
• Threats to the Tree of Life — The Appalachian Voice
• The Inventory Newsletter, December 2019 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Hemlock Restoration 2.0 — Field Notes Blog
• Happy Thanksgiving — Chapman Mountain Nature Preserve’s Terry Big Tree Trail — Steve Jones (Great Blue Heron)
• Forests are the only reason that makes the world a better place! — Biopharmapress
• Affiliated Scientist Earns National Career Award for Crayfish Research — The University of Mississippi Center for Biodiversity & Conservation Research
• Tracking wild pigs in real time and understanding their interaction with agro-ecosystems — EurekAlert!
• Student Channels Life-threatening Diagnosis Into Passion For Wildfire Management — The Roanoke Star
• Forest Service Publishes Heirs' Property and Land Fractionation Proceedings — Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• The Inventory Newsletter, September 2019 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Texas A&M scientists begin southern pine beetle genome sequencing — EurekAlert!
• Forecasting US economic and demographic shifts at higher resolution — EurekAlert!
• The Inventory Newsletter, June 2019 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Clemson University’s Fire Tigers — ClemsonWorld
• New 3D tool assists firefighters in predicting fire behavior — Fire Chief
• Nearly 200,000 deer killed by hunters in South Carolina in 2018 — Post and Courier
• The State of the Forest — USDA Blog
• New 3D Fuel Modeling Helps Predict Fire Behavior — USDA Blog
• Forest Service Crews Double as Tick-Surveillance Teams in Collaborative Study — Entomology Today
• Don Bragg, research forester, to present 'Lidar and Some Archeological Site Survey and Mapping Opportunities in Arkansas' — April 6, 2019
• Could diversity protect forests from pests? — Anthropocene Magazine
• Ginseng in decline in the eastern United States — UGA Today
• Clemson researchers work to understand impact of coyotes on state’s deer population — Clemson Newsstand
• The Inventory Newsletter, March 2019 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• The Inventory Newsletter, December 2018 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• National climate change report: Plagues of insects and fires for Southern Appalachian forests? — Asheville Citizen Times
• National climate change report: what's in store for Southern Appalachian forests? — Asheville Citizen Times
• Galax’s enduring popularity — Smoky Mountain News
• Devastating wildfires expected to be more common in Southeast due to climate change — Times Free Press
• Tech Alumnus Helps Kids Explore Freshwater Streams by Getting Their Feet Wet — Roanoke Star
• The Inventory Newsletter, September 2018 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Southern Timber Owners and Industry Hit Hard by Hurricane — USDA Blog
• BACKYARD HORTICULTURE: An ancient tree that pre-dates bees — The Navasota Examiner
• Roadmap for filling the gaps in forest pollinator research — ScienceDaily
• The Ellen Trout Zoo is continuing its efforts to save the most endangered snake species in the U-S. — KTRE
• Forest ThreatNet News Update - Summer 2018 Newsletter — EFETAC
• Wabanaki Basketmakers Want To Show That Harvesting Sweetgrass Can Be Sustainable — Maine Public
• Grant awarded to East Texas researchers to save snakes — East Texas Matters
• Forest inventory and analysis report provides updated Arkansas forest data — Newton County Times
• Trees travelling west: How climate is changing our forests — EurekAlert
• Insect Infestations Alter Forest Carbon Cycle — Earth & Space Science News
• Fire key to restoring longleaf pine in Croatan National Forest — Carolina Public Press
• New USDA Forest Service Report Assesses the Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits of Sustainably Harvesting Non-Timber Forest Products — Sierra Sun Times
• Forest Service Scientists Do Some Serious Sleuthing to Detect Illegal Marijuana Grow Sites — US Forest Service
• Meet The Invasive Insect That Is Changing An Entire Forest Bird Community — Forbes
• Fighting fire with fire: Clemson students prepare for front lines in fight against wildfires — Clemson Newsstand
• What the West Can Learn from Florida About Forest Fires — Outside Online
• Tree-huggers are onto something: How trees support life, reduce stress and increase property values — Riverhead Local
• On Second Thought For Tuesday, June 26, 2018 — Georgia Public Broadcasting
• AFRI funds multi-university loblolly pine research — Louisiana Tech University
• Garden Tips: From millions to billions: the value of a city’s trees — Tri-City Herald
• The Father of Southern Forestry: Cenla museum honors Henry Hardtner — KALB-TV News Channel 5
• 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 (PDF) — SRS Forest Inventory and Analysis