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Forest Scene Newsletter - Fall 2023 Edition
The Forest Scene newsletter is published biannually in the spring and fall, featuring stories and updates from the Department of Forest Resources. Readers can download issue 29 of Forest Scene as an interactive PDF that is fully tagged and compatible with most screen readers, or they can read the individual stories on our website.
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New on SilviCast: The Art of Silviculture
Marcella Windmuller Campione, associate professor of silviculture, recently joined the SiviCast podcast, a collaboration between the Wisconsin Forestry Center and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. As Silvicast describes, listen in to hear her thoughts on "keeping the creativity in silviculture and the importance of being a life-long learner."
![Mike Dockry smiles in front of a UMN CFANS banner in maroon and gold. He wears a maroon shirt, black glasses, and a curled moustache.](/sites/forestry.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_third/public/2023-11/climate_assessment_mike_dockry.png?itok=cUeyWUiF)
Mike Dockry contributes to 5th National Climate Assessment's Indigenous Peoples Chapter
The 5th National Climate Assessment, released on November 14, 2023, features contributions from Mike Dockry, Forest Resources assistant professor and Midwest Climate Adaption Science Center (MW CASC) tribal relations lead.
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Mike Schuster's buckthorn research featured on MITPPC blog
Featured on the Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center blog: Cover it Up! Using Plants to Control Buckthorn projects led by Forest Resources Researcher Mike Schuster "are unraveling the mysteries of buckthorn management" by "harnessing the power of native plants to quell buckthorn's resurgence."
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Global forests could soak up one-third of annual fossil fuel emissions
Research Brief: Research results recently published in Nature show that global forest lands could store enough carbon to soak up one-third of annual fossil fuel emissions for decades to come. The results highlight the critical importance of forest conservation, restoration and sustainable management in moving toward international climate targets. Peter Reich, a professor in the Department of Forest Resources, was part of the core organizing and writing group for this work.
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Learn About the ESPM Major!
Are you curious about the Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management (ESPM) major? Two new videos feature a current student and a recent graduate speaking about its impact. Watch both to learn how this dynamic, interdisciplinary program is preparing the next generation of environmental leaders.
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"Managing landscapes since time immemorial" in WUWM
As part of NPR's Climate Week, WUWM radio spoke with UMN Graduate Fellow Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano and her father, Anakwad Frank Montano, who are members of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. They talked about their relationships to land, water, and fire; Anishinaabe land management; and Nisogaabokwe's work as a traditional ecological knowledge outreach specialist and student in our department's Tribal Natural Resource Track.
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“A warming climate could make Minnesota look more like Kansas”
On Kare 11: "A warming climate could make Minnesota look more like Kansas." In this news short, reporter Greg Vandegrift speaks with Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Forest Ecology, about the potential impacts of climate change on Minnesota's boreal forest.
![A photo of an expansive honey-colored grassland under a soft blue sky is overlaid with the text "'Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes' published in Nature Climate Change."](/sites/forestry.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_third/public/2023-10/grassland-climate.png?itok=6dcQGkWp)
"Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes"
Research Professor Peter Reich is a co-author of "Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regime," which was recently published in Nature Climate Change. According to the team's research, "ongoing declines in fire frequencies have probably created an extensive carbon sink in the soils of global drylands that may have been underestimated by ecosystem models."
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New Job Opening: Researcher 5
The University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources seeks a Researcher 5 to support multiple research projects related to ground-based carbon inventories, forest growth and yield simulation, and disturbance effects on forest attributes.