News - September 2022


The ties that bind: One Health provides links wildlife, diseases and the larger environment 

When Whitney Kistler and Barbara Shock take undergraduate students into the field for conservation biology classes, they make a point to discuss ticks and other disease vectors.  Ticks are common around Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, where Kistler (MS ’10, PHD ’14) and Shock (MS ’10, PHD ’14) are both associate professors. But as graduates of the wildlife ecology and management program at the University of Georgia Warnell School…


Seminar Series: 'Birds on the move'


Alumni spotlight: Lanier Forster Clegg

Sharing a love of conversation   In Statesboro, Georgia, a 30,000-square-foot facility serves as a hub for shooting sports. It’s home to teams from Georgia Southern University, as well as 4-H competitions and practice for members of the public.   Lanier Forster Clegg The center also—thanks, in a way, to the kismet of Warnell—connects a father’s passion project with his daughter’s new career.  “I had the pleasure of writing…


New Warnell professor receives national teaching award from SAF

One of Warnell’s newest faculty members, Chad Bolding, has received the Carl Alwin Schenck Award from the Society of American Foresters. The award recognizes outstanding performance in the field of forestry education and is presented every year at the organization’s national convention. Bolding is professor and Langdale Endowed Chair in Forest Business; he came to Warnell earlier this past summer from Virginia Tech. Colleagues who nominated…


Study identifies windstorm risks for Southern pine forests

Growing trees across a central swath of the Southeastern United States comes with an elevated risk for windstorm damage, according to new research from the University of Georgia. Using a modeling process that accounts for a variety of variables—in this case, factors such as terrain, depth of bedrock, soil types and frequency of severe storms—researchers have developed a series of maps to help guide landowners. The goal, said lead author and…


Seminar: Trouble in Puddles


Mingling of backyard chickens, wild birds creates disease risk

Wild birds come into contact with backyard chicken flocks more frequently than people realize, creating a pathway for pathogens to transmit back and forth, according to research from researchers at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Such pathways increase the risk for spillover events that can threaten the health of all these groups—wild birds, backyard chickens and the people who care for…


UGA moves closer to Lake Blackshear property sale

The University of Georgia is moving closer to finalizing a sale of property on Lake Blackshear in South Georgia.    The 2,500-acre lakefront parcel was donated to the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources by Charles Wheatley in 1989. UGA is now working with Forest Resource Consultants to sell the entire parcel, as changing market forces and unsolicited inquiries revealed selling the entire property would be the best…


In the details: High-powered imaging allows us to see trees in new ways

Hold a single pine needle in your hand. What do you see?  Better yet, what if you pulled out your pocketknife and sliced a thin sliver from the center of that needle? That’s the part that Warnell associate professor Dan Johnson is looking at.  That small green speck in your hand holds information on that tree’s health—for example, how it moves water through its systems or how it’s responding to drought or fire. Johnson is one of the…


Seminar: Rebuilding bridges between African Americans and forestry

    African Americans’ expertise in agriculture and natural resources goes back thousands of years—and we need to work to remake those connections.   This was part of the message recently shared by Alex Singleton, fiber supply manager for International Paper and a recent inductee into the Southeast Society of American Foresters Hall of Fame. Singleton spoke as part of the weekly Seminar Series event at the University of…

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