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In Minnesota, a partnership works to maintain moose habitat

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August Feature - Wildlife

This month, wildlife runs freely through our feature stories. We showcase a Research Wildlife Biologist whose insatiable curiosity shapes his workday as well as his leisure time, research employing environmental DNA to establish the distribution of lake sturgeon, and a partnership exploring whether climate adaptive forest management strategies can mitigate negative impacts on moose populations in Minnesota.

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The Climate Change Tree Atlas: Managing Tree Species in the Face of Climate Change

For 20 years, the Climate Change Tree Atlas has given foresters insight into tree species trends and how possible future climate scenarios may affect eastern tree species' habitat suitability. The Climate Change Tree Atlas recently underwent a major overhaul. Now even more resources are available to land managers looking for detailed data sets and maps on species traits, habitat quality, land cover, and dispersal potential for most tree species in the eastern United States

Forestcast

Cicada emergence hole in soil surrounded by dead cicadas. Photo by Mac Callham, USDA Forest Service.

New Podcast Episode: Mac Callaham, a research ecologist, goes searching in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest for one of Brood X’s most-southern cicada emergences.

Field note from a scientist on a once in 17 year event. Listen here >>