Spring Awakening Party
Come to a Spring Awakening Party benefiting the Alliance for Saving Threatened Forests on Sunday, March 25, from 6-10 PM at the Oxford. [More]
Reclaiming Hemlocks and Firs: A Symposium
If you did not have the opportunity to attend the symposium, an archived webcast is available here.
Fred Hain Receives Order of the Longleaf Pine
ASTF director Fred Hain received the Order of the Longleaf Pine in October. Read the story here.
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Public Radio
Listen to stories about the hemlock woolly adelgid on Western NC Public Radio. Click here to go to the segments for the first story, and here to go to the second.
Research on Invasive Forest Pests
In the early to mid-1900s two small insect pests entered the United States and began devouring evergreen forests in the eastern North America. From the 1950s until today, both the balsam woolly adelgid and the hemlock woolly adelgid have left trails of tree “ghosts” in the Appalachians and elsewhere.
The balsam woolly adelgid has nearly eliminated older Fraser firs, and the hemlock woolly adelgid is even more devastating to eastern and Carolina hemlock forests, leaving giant holes in the landscape as trees die off...
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Latest Research Results
