News - April 2023


Alumni spotlight: Jimmy Harris (BSFR ’71, MED ’76)

Like a stream that meanders down from the hills, Jimmy Harris’ years after high school followed a rambling path. Eventually he found his way to the University of Georgia with enough transfer credits to earn a forestry degree from Warnell. (For the record, he wanted to major in wildlife biology but, well, lacked the transfer credits and “my parents informed me I was getting the forestry degree,” he says with a smile.) After a few years, Harris…


Conservation stories from Poland


Stories from the Field - Panel Discussion


Tree experts connect over urban forests

We know a good bit about forests, and the factors that make a healthy one. But what about the trees that live across an urban landscape?   This was the general question posed at a recent meeting of tree experts on the University of Georgia campus. Researchers from around the world gathered to dig into urban forests and how to keep them healthy at the inaugural meeting of the Urban Trees Ecophysiology Network at the UGA Center for Continuing…


Forests in the Anthropocene


Warnell Faculty, students recognized during UGA’s Honors Week

Several faculty members and students at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources were recognized during Honors Week at the University of Georgia. Awards recognized teaching, research and outreach efforts to local communities. “We are extremely proud of our Warnell family, and Honors Week allows some of our best and brightest to shine,” said Dale Greene, Warnell’s dean. “The faculty and students honored this week represent the range…


Clint Moore: Counting on natural resources

Clint Moore knew he liked forestry and math. As an undergraduate student, he wasn’t sure how that might add up to a career. “I had this image that someone would pay me to sit in a fire tower on a mountaintop and work on math problems,” said Moore (BSFR ’82, PHD ’02), who recently retired as leader of the Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit. “That’s what I wanted to do, but I never found something worded explicitly that way.” Commonly…


Alumni spotlight: Lenise Lago (BSFR ’83, MFR ’85)

‘LUCK AND SAYING YES’ Studying forestry helped land Lenise Lago a thriving career in the industry. But ultimately it was people who helped her find her true calling, deep within America’s forests. As a Warnell student, Lago spent her summers at Union Camp and Weyerhaeuser. After receiving her Master of Forest Resources, the Container Corporation of America sent her to its corporate headquarters in Chicago where she handled financial reporting…

A panther caught on camera
Investigating an East Coast wilderness

The last intact predator-prey interaction can be found in Southwest Florida. Warnell Researchers had front-row seats.   It wasn’t the howls of hurricane Irma that put Heather Abernathy on edge while stationed in a remote part of Southwest Florida doing field work. Nor was it hunkering down under a tarp during an afternoon thunderstorm or keeping an eye out for water snakes during what was one of the wettest seasons the state has seen in…

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