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A leading researcher in forest harvest scheduling and landscape planning at the University of Georgia has been honored by the Society of American Foresters for his work.   Pete Bettinger, the Leon "Buddy" Hargreaves Jr. Distinguished Professor in Forest Management at UGA’s Warnell School of… Read Article

As Hurricane Idalia cuts a swath through the Southeast, some trees will fare better than others.

Years of experience has shown how major hurricanes negatively affect the tree canopy. But native trees and certain varieties can show more resilience than others, says community forestry… Read Article

In a nutshell, that’s carbon (bonus: even that nutshell has carbon).

In its simplest form, carbon is a building block. It’s a natural element that is the fourth-most abundant element on the planet. It can combine with other elements to form molecules, which create the basic building… Read Article

It’s been almost a decade since Harry Sanders graduated from Warnell and began working for his family’s logging business, Sanders Logging. But for Sanders, it seems like only yesterday he was walking through the woods at Whitehall with his classmates.

Time… Read Article

Hundreds of GPS collars. Thousands of movements tracked across the mountains. Millions of photographs.

These are the elements now being assembled to give researchers a clearer picture of chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious, deadly disease affecting a large number of deer and elk… Read Article

A 19-member committee has been appointed to begin the search for candidates for the position of Dean of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.   The committee is chaired by Nick Place, Dean and Director of the College of Agricultural &… Read Article

The small, square pond in the Mary Kahrs Warnell garden is known as a spot for lunch, meetings or quiet reflection. But regular visitors to the garden will notice a change this fall.   Facing extreme temperatures and an overgrowth of vegetation, maintenance crews at the University of… Read Article

Who decides the future of a forest?

This is a basic question asked by students studying forest policy at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Whether it’s… Read Article

Jorge Rojas is protecting living fossils.

Those “fossils” are Baird’s tapir, an endangered herbivore that looks like a small rhino, with a nose that resembles a short trunk and lives in Central and South America. As a remnant of the megafauna, they roamed the earth alongside mastodons and… Read Article