Southern
Research Station

News Releases

2016

• U.S. Forest Service scientists based in Raleigh Recognized for Achievements — December 19, 2016
• Zoё Hoyle Receives an Abraham Lincoln Honor Award from Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack — September 27, 2016
• Partners Work Together to Educate Public on Treating Non-native Invasive Species — June 20, 2016
• Climate and Society Will Determine the Future of Wildfire in the South — June 14, 2016
• Water Yields from Southern Appalachian Watersheds in Decline since the 1970s — June 1, 2016
• More Productive U.S. National Forests and Grasslands Could Yield Less Water in a Future Climate — April 21, 2016
• Local U.S. Forest Service Experimental Forest Chosen for U.S.-China Climate Change & Forests Initiative — April 12, 2016
• U.S. Forest Service Experimental Forests Chosen for U.S.-China Climate Change & Forests Initiative — April 7, 2016
• Local student wins honors at science fair with project that partners with U.S. Forest Service — April 6, 2016
• Austin’s Urban Forest — March 9, 2016
• New Interactive Guide Tells the Story of Forest Products in the South — February 24, 2016
• Landscape Pattern Analysis Reveals Global Loss of Interior Forest — January 28, 2016

2015

• U.S. Forest Products in the Global Economy — December 2, 2015
• Carbon Accumulation by U.S. Forests May Slow Over the Next 25 Years — November 12, 2015
• Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia: — September 9, 2015
• Heat and Acid Could Squeeze Trout Out of Southern Appalachian Streams — September 1, 2015
• U.S. Forest Service Publishes Plan for North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) — June 1, 2015
• Changes in Forest Structure Affect Bees and Other Pollinators — May 26, 2015
• New Mesoamerican Pine Beetle Described by SRS Scientist and Collaborators — April 14, 2015
• Researchers Map Seasonal Greening in U.S. Forests, Fields, and Urban Areas — March 31, 2015
• Susan Loeb Honored for Lead Role in North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) — March 16, 2015
• Renewable Energy Policies Drive Production of Southern Wood Pellets for Bioenergy — January 30, 2015
• Carbon Accumulation by Southeastern Forests May Slow — January 27, 2015

2014

• 2008 Lacey Act Amendment Successful in Reducing U.S. Imports of Illegally Logged Wood — November 19, 2014
• Coming This August--Third Inventory of U.S. Virgin Islands’ Forests — August 15, 2014
• Loss of Eastern Hemlock Affects Peak Flows after Extreme Storm Events — August 12, 2014
• The Interaction of Climate Change, Fire, and Forests in the U.S. — August 5, 2014
• New Recreational Travel Model to Help States Stop Firewood Assisted Insect Travel — July 9, 2014
• International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology, June 22-27 — June 19, 2014
• Innovative Web App Blends Trails and Forest Science — May 20, 2014
• Wendell Haag receives U.S. Forest Service Rise to the Future Award — May 15, 2014
• The “Schenck You II”: Cradle of Forestry Climate Change Opening — May 6, 2014
• Long-Term Response of a Forest Watershed Ecosystem: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians — March 25, 2014
• Susan Loeb Wins Lifetime Achievement Award — March 25, 2014
• In the Genome of Loblolly Pine Lies Hope for Better Resistance to a Damaging Disease — March 20, 2014
• Forest Service Honors Outstanding Science — February 12, 2014
• Managing Southern Forests under Climate Change — February 11, 2014
• Secretary Vilsack Announces Regional Hubs to Help Agriculture, Forestry Mitigate the Impacts of a Changing Climate: — February 11, 2014

2013

• Forest science benefits water resources, aids developing countries — December 3, 2013
• Study Shows Reforestation along Rivers and Streams in Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Reduces Sediment Runoff — December 2, 2013
• Economic Assessment of Mountain Pine Beetle Timber Salvage — October 21, 2013
• ForWarn Follows Rapidly Changing Forest Conditions — September 30, 2013
• Climate Change and Wildfire — May 20, 2013
• Loss of Eastern Hemlock Will Affect Forest Water Use — May 9, 2013
• McNulty Named "Most Distinguished" in Forest Science — January 31, 2013
• Climate Change Projected to Alter Indiana Bat Maternity Range — January 28, 2013

2012

• ForWarn Team Wins 2013 Interagency Partnership Award — December 12, 2012
• Ozone Affects Forest Watersheds — October 17, 2012
• North American Freshwater Mussels — October 9, 2012
• Emmy Award-Winning Adventurer, Naturalist and Media Host Patrick McMillan to Give Keynote Address at 2012 American Chestnut Summit in Asheville, NC — September 27, 2012
• Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program Wins Secretary's Honor Award — September 12, 2012
• SRS Researcher Tom Holmes Co-Authors Prize Winning Article — August 28, 2012
• Klepzig Receives A.D. Hopkins Award — August 1, 2012
• Georgia Forests, 2011 — July 26, 2012
• Leaf Litter and Soil Protect Acorns from Prescribed Fire — July 18, 2012
• Demise of the Dogwood? — July 17, 2012
• Americans' Preferences for Outdoor Recreation Changing — June 19, 2012
• Refining Fire Behavior Modeling — May 22, 2012
• Southern Pine Beetle Impacts on Forests — May 17, 2012
• Forestry Webinar Series Wins Two Chiefs Award — May 14, 2012
• Taking America's Rarest Snake Back to the Woods — May 7, 2012
• Santee Experimental Forest Celebrates 75-Year Anniversary — April 12, 2012
• USDA Forest Service and NASA release Web-based forest disturbance monitoring tool — March 19, 2012
• Tennessee's Urban Forests Valued in the Billions — March 14, 2012
• US Forest Service’s new invasive-plant iPhone app identifies nonnative plants — February 22, 2012
• USDA Grants Support SRS Research in the Southern Appalachians — January 12, 2012
• Forest Service to Conduct Prescribed Burn this Winter at Bent Creek — January 6, 2012