Forestry News

Pete Bettinger teaches a class in the woods

New project connects forest management, digital tools

The University of Georgia is a partner in a new $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that will help landowners better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions.   The project, called PERSEUS (Promoting Economic Resilience and…
A view of one of the research areas

Long-term experiment aims to ‘train’ trees, measure soil carbon

Interdisciplinary project combines multiple areas of natural resources expertise Walk through a forest and you’re witnessing a quiet competition. As trees grow, they compete with other plants for water and light. Sometimes this means one tree dominates the resources, but other times the plants find…
A sapling is burned in the lab at Idaho State University. Courtesy Raquel Partelli-Feltrin

Study digs into how fire kills trees—and it’s not what most have thought

For decades, it’s been assumed that trees die from forest fires because they lose their leaves or the ability to move water within their trunks. In theory, they die of dehydration or starvation. But a new study co-authored by a professor at the University of Georgia challenges these conventional—…
The sun shines through the trees at the governor's mansion in Buckhead

Student arborists help gauge governor’s trees

When a tree limb fell on the grounds of the governor’s mansion, staff there turned it into a teachable moment. The event launched a larger assessment of all 300 trees across the property and incorporated students at the University of Georgia to assist and learn from the process. As a result, two…
University of Georgia researchers (from left) Maria Ortega, C.J. Tsai, Ran Zhou and Margot Chen look through poplar specimens in a lab on campus. (Photo by Kristen Morales)

Say it with flowers: Scientists develop trees that flower in months, not years

When scientists want to improve a variety of vegetable, it can take a year or less to see changes—just the length of a reproductive cycle. But breeding improvements into trees can take years—sometimes decades—before changes can be seen. Now, a process developed by researchers at the University of…

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