Jul 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Researchers at the University of Georgia have a message for Southern pine tree farmers worried about unexplainable pine tree deaths: Don’t panic. A new study published in Forest Ecology and Management analyzed growth in thousands of pine tree plots across the...
Jun 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
Two University of Georgia professors have co-authored a “roadmap” that outlines six “grand challenges” to the U.S. in regards to natural resources. Rhett Jackson, a professor in the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, was one of 35 authors of the...
Jun 13, 2014 | News, News/PR
A Turfgrass scientist from Tifton is working to breed a tree without pine cones or pollen. For the past nine years, Wayne Hanna has been working to produce a coneless pine tree. Hanna says it would prevent spending time picking up pine cones. “I walked in the...
Apr 30, 2014 | News, News/PR
The once-abundant Eastern Hemlock provided shade and respite from the summer heat and played a key role in riverbank ecology. Now they resemble towering grey skeletons, and, gradually, their broken limbs and trunks are filling the creeks and rivers. The questions for...
Apr 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
What started off as a small group of forestry students who wanted to mingle with each other has evolved into one of the University of Georgia’s most active student leadership clubs—and one of its longest lasting. The UGA Forestry Club celebrated its centennial...
