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Jumping Worms: The Creepy, Damaging Invasive You Don’t Know
Disturb a jumping worm and it’s like a nightcrawler on steroids. But put aside the creepy factor: jumping worms may be the next big threat to northern forests.
For World Orangutan Day, An Ambitious Plan to Save These Great Apes
Bornean orangutans were recently declared critically endangered. Conservationists see this as a call to action to improve forest management.
Recovery: The Great Teddy Bear Rescue
The Louisiana black bear is the original Teddy Bear. It’s also an example of how an “endangered species train wreck” can turn into a conservation success.
Technology to the Rescue for Foresters in the Thick of It
Managing forests to remain resilient through wildfire, drought, and forest pests in a changing climate is complicated. New technology is helping forest managers to restore forests to a healthy mix of spatial diversity.
Maintaining Healthy Forests Takes More than Planting Trees
Conservationists should plant more trees, but that’s not the whole story. America’s forests must be resilient to survive wildfires and invading forest pests in a changing climate.
Unraveling the Mystery of the Western Sycamores that Weren’t
The problem? As trees in some of their restoration sites grew to maturity, they didn’t look like the native western sycamores the scientists were sure they had planted.
Harvesting Whitebark Pine Cones to Save a Forest
Near the top of the Rockies, crews climb trees and risk danger to collect pine cones. But this isn’t an extreme sport: their work is key to saving one of the West’s iconic trees.
Mapping Reduced-Impact Logging with Lidar
Nature Conservancy scientists are using lidar ⎯ light pulses beamed down from airplanes ⎯ to map reduced-impact logging in Indonesia.
Calculating Uncertainty in the Forest Carbon Equation
New research from Conservancy scientists provides a more accurate estimate of forest carbon in Indonesia.
Bioacoustics for Conservation Land-Use Planning
Conservancy scientists are using innovative acoustic sampling data to inform conservation land use planning in Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.
Eavesdropping on the Sounds of the Rainforest
Nature Conservancy scientists venture deep into the mountains of Papua New Guinea to record the soundscape of the forest, gathering biodiversity data for conservation land-use planning.
Protecting Florida’s Last Old-Growth Pines
One scientist is on a mission to protect the last of Florida’s old-growth longleaf pines, before it’s too late.
