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Staring into a glob of mud, the students saw some movement. A few whipped out their phones to capture what they were watching.

Except, one dropped. The one with the cleanest hands was elected to wipe it off. “But my credit cards are… Read Article

It’s been a busy fall semester for Margaret Griggs.

Arriving on campus as a transfer student, Griggs first needed to learn the ins and outs of being a University of Georgia student. But at the same time, she needed to focus on a new project: Restarting UGA’s mountain biking team.

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If only it were as simple as finding more grassland for an antelope.

The story of efforts to conserve the endangered oribi in South Africa represent a diaspora of issues as varied as the… Read Article

The view from Elizabeth McCarty’s window is a lot more colorful lately—and more friendly to bees.

Earlier this spring, McCarty, an assistant professor and forest health specialist for the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources who based at UGA’s Tifton… Read Article

On its surface, the timber industry can seem simple: Trees grow, they’re harvested, they’re replanted.

But if you dig a little deeper, you uncover layers of intricacies. There are state and federal policies, international influences, asset distributions, planning, data collection and more… Read Article

Let’s take hurricanes, for example.

We don’t know the exact paths they’ll take to crisscross the Southeast each year, but we can make an educated guess.

To do this, we’ll need a few things. Start with gathering the ages of the trees, the content of the soil, maybe even additional… Read Article

Warnell celebrated its first in-person convocation event in two years on Friday, as dozens of students walked across the stage to receive recognition of their degrees.

The last time the school hosted an in-person convocation event was in the fall of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic… Read Article

Faculty, students, alumni and friends recently had the opportunity to recognize a Warnell trailblazer.

In a Feb. 10 Zoom event that took the place of a Forestry Club meeting, guests welcomed Rex Benham (BSFR ’82), Warnell’s first African American undergraduate student to graduate… Read Article

Georgia’s sunshine, trees, agriculture and construction industries could help the state reduce its carbon footprint by half in less than a decade, according to a new study by a team of scientists from the state’s leading universities.

The study was conducted as part of Drawdown Georgia, a… Read Article