About this Event
Join US Forest Service Research Ecologist, Dr. Katie Greenberg, for a tour of the Bent Creek Experimental Forest (part of the Pisgah National Forest) to learn about southern Appalachian hardwood forest ecology and management. We will visit research and demonstration sites to discuss how wind disturbance, timber harvest, prescribed fire, and wildfire change forest structure and forest food resources (such as soft and hard mast) and affect wildlife communities.
We will meet at the Ledford Loop parking area for carpooling on the tour. Participants should bring water, and wear long pants and sturdy, close-toed footwear. Hardhats will be provided.
Katie H. Greenberg is a Research Ecologist with the Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management Research Work Unit, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest in Asheville NC. She received her MS from the University of Tennessee and her PhD from the University of Florida, where she studied the ecology of sand pine scrub in Ocala National Forest. Her current research focuses on developing information and tools that are useful to forest managers and planners. Research areas include (1) effects of prescribed fire and wildfire, mixed-oak regeneration harvests, and other forest management practices on reptile, amphibian, and breeding bird communities; (2) production of forest food resources, such as native fleshy fruit and hard mast, in relation to forest types and silvicultural disturbances; (3) long-term monitoring of amphibian populations in longleaf pine-wiregrass sandhills in relation to forest health and climate change.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
ledford branch trailhead, Ledford Branch Road, Asheville, United States
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