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Coweeta Hosts Young Scientists’ Presentations
Fifth grade students from Mountain View Intermediate School learn how to measure stream flow at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in Otto, NC. Photo by Randy Fowler. On November 20, for the second year...
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Teaching Cherokee Indian Youth about Culturally Important Plants
Jerry Wolfe, Elder with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, provided knowledge about the Cherokee language in relation to culturally significant plants for the plant module recently developed for the...
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The Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
Part of the Coweeta basin, viewed from a lookout tower. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. Much of what we know today about the hydrology of forested watersheds was learned through early research at the...
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Ukrainians Learn About ‘Sang
Tetyana Troshyna, a private entrepreneur from Kyiv in central Ukraine, took part in the tour about non-timber forest products. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. “Here’s sang-find, also known as rattlesnake...
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Bees and Butterflies: Celebrating the Small and Mighty
About 30 people visited the SRS People’s Garden during National Pollinator Week. Visitors watched pollinators in action and talked to Forest Service and Master Gardener volunteers about how to sustain...
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Digging up Past Connections at Bent Creek
Linda Benz kneeling on one of the flagstone walkways she uncovered, one of a web of stone paths that connect the buildings on the historic campus of the Bent Creek Experimental Forest. Photo by U.S....
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Managing Southern Appalachian Hardwood Forests with Fire
Each of the treatments in the study created different stand structure and fuel characteristics. The control at top left shows an understory thick with shrubs. The mechanical treatment removed shrubs...
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New Forest, New Water Yield
The study watersheds are outfitted with weirs, which allow scientists to precisely measure the amount of streamflow. Photo by Pete Caldwell, USFS. Today, forests abound in the southern Appalachians....
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Home is a Pine Tree
Indiana bats are small – they weigh about as much as a stack of three pennies. Photo by Caroline Byrne, Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation. Every summer, female Indiana bats fly...
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Formidable Forest Shrubs Affect Tree Height and Biomass
Rhododendron blossoms are lovely, but the shrub can stunt trees and out-compete trilliums, ferns, and other understory species. CC0 photo. Forests are made of three-dimensional life forms that...
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