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To help forests adapt to increased stressors caused to climate change, University of Minnesota Extension forestry experts have compiled regional lists of climate-ready trees and plants for woodland stewards across Minnesota.

Survivor elms are the basis of an ongoing project managed by researchers Ben Held, Department of Plant Pathology, and Ryan Murphy, Department of Forest Resources. Together, they're working to understand why these elms survived and how they can inform future forestry efforts.

Kira Pollack, a graduate student pursuing a Master’s of Science in Natural Resource Science and Management (NRSM), is working with Associate Professors Andy David and Marcella Windmuller-Campione to give eastern hemlock trees a much-needed boost.

Anyone who’s been a member of the Department of Forest Resources community in the past 30 years can recognize a certain laugh that often echoed out of Green Hall room 115: Colleen O’Connor's signature chuckle. Colleen retired in June after three decades working as our Academic Program Coordinator.

The Department of Forest Resources showed up strong at the 2023 Society of American Foresters (SAF) National Convention in Sacramento, California, in October. And we had a blast, too!

We are honored to celebrate the late Dr. Narinder Dhir, University of Minnesota alum, forest genetics program manager, and scientist, who led the Alberta Forest Service’s forest genetics and tree improvement program for more than 30 years. Dr. Dhir’s impact on the Canadian province’s tree conservation efforts continue to reverberate, as do the gifts he provided to support the Department of Forest Resources programming and operations.

Get to know two new members of our team: Alicia Coleman, assistant professor of urban and community forestry, and Irene De Pellegrin Llorente, research assistant professor of forest management and bioeconomy.

From the Fall 2023 edition of the Forest Scene newsletter: A letter from Dr. Kristen Nelson, Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Forest Resources, to our community.

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. 

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."