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The Santee Experimental Forest
Carl Trettin explains long-term soil studies installed on the Santee. Photo by Rodney Kindlund. In 1934, the U.S. Forest Service allocated 6,100 acres of the Francis Marion National Forest (Francis...
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Headwaters to Estuaries: Advances in Watershed Science and Management
Live oak near Charleston, SC, believed to be over 1500 years old. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. On March 2 -5, 81 scientists, managers, and stakeholders met in North Charleston, South Carolina,...
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The Future of the Francis Marion’s Coastal Forests
Climate change models predict increases in hurricane storm surges, which could increase saltwater intrusion and impact forested wetland species such as bald cypress. Photo by Bill Lea. When Hurricane...
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Susan Loeb Awarded Grant for Research Related to White-Nose Syndrome in Bats
Tri-colored bat caught in 2011 bat blitz. Tri-colored bats are tiny, smaller than little brown bats. Photo by Gary Peeples, courtesy of USFWS. On September 29, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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Longleaf Pine at a 50-Year High in South Carolina
Longleaf pine stand with young, small diameter trees. Photo by Erich Vallery, U.S. Forest Service, courtesy of bugwood.org. Efforts to restore longleaf pine forests in South Carolina are proving quite...
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Study Shows How Coyotes Help Manage Deer Populations in the Southeastern U.S.
Forest Service researcher John Kilgo with fawn tracked by radio collar. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. Coyotes have become a force in the southeastern U.S. that can no longer be ignored in deer...
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Taking the Long View at the Francis Marion National Forest
The Francis Marion National Forest (Francis Marion) is currently revising its land and resource management plan under the National Forest System 2012 Planning Rule. The new rule requires climate...
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First Release in the Carolinas of New Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Predator
Bryan Mudder releasing biocontrol beetles on infested eastern hemlock tree at Bent Creek Experimental Forest near Asheville, North Carolina. Photo by Bud Mayfield. On Friday last week, U.S. Forest...
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Life in a Treehouse: How Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bats Choose their Roosts
In the South Carolina Coastal Plain, Rafinesque’s big-eared bats often roost in the hollows of bottomland hardwoods. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In the Coastal Plain of South Carolina,...
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Helping African American Rural Landowners Keep Family Forests
Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation forester Sam Cook in young longleaf pine stand on family forestland in South Carolina. Photo by Sarah Hitchner. After the Civil War, African Americans were...
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The Calhoun Experimental Forest
The Calhoun in the 1940s, after almost a century of soil degradation. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. Until the middle of the 20th century, forest researchers were mostly concerned with what could be...
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Santee Experimental Forest Chosen for U.S.-China Climate Change and Forests...
The Santee Experimental Forest is located in the Francis Marion National Forest in the South Carolina Coastal Plain. Photo by the U.S. Forest Service. U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station...
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The Santee Experimental Forest
Carl Trettin explains long-term soil studies installed on the Santee. Photo by Rodney Kindlund. In 1934, the U.S. Forest Service allocated 6,100 acres (2,470 ha) of the Francis Marion National Forest...
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Water Planning for the South in the New Fire Age
Clockwise from left, Jones Center scientists Stephen Golladay and Steven Brantley, and EFETAC scientists Dennis Hallema and Ge Sun discussed study results during a recent seminar at the Jones Center....
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How Healthy Are Your Pines?
A 35-year old loblolly pine stand that has been thinned and burned multiple times. Photo by David Stephens, Bugwood.org. Seventeen percent of the world’s industrial roundwood comes from U.S. forests –...
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Regenerating Shortleaf Pine in the Southern Appalachians
Shortleaf pine tree with immature cones. Photo by Frank Bonner, courtesy of Bugwood.org. On June 14th, at the annual meeting of the Southern Group of State Foresters, Arkansas State Forester Joe Fox...
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Longleaf Pine at a 50-Year High in South Carolina
Longleaf pine stand with young, small diameter trees. Photo by Erich Vallery, U.S. Forest Service, courtesy of bugwood.org. Efforts to restore longleaf pine forests in South Carolina are proving quite...
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Regenerating Shortleaf Pine in the Southern Appalachians
Shortleaf pine tree with immature cones. Photo by Frank Bonner, courtesy of Bugwood.org. On June 14th, at the annual meeting of the Southern Group of State Foresters, Arkansas State Forester Joe Fox...
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Effects of Coyote Predation on Deer Hunting in South Carolina
Historically a species of the North American plains, coyotes now occupy much of the Southeast. Photo by Rebecca Richardson, courtesy of Wikimedia.org. Deer hunting is a very popular activity in South...
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Black Belt Forestry
Forest Service researcher John Schelhas and landowner Eleanor Cooper Brown discuss her family’s forest land. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. After the Civil War, former African American slaves were...
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