Join me at Hofstra University Tuesday, October 20th at 6:30 pm. I’ll talk about scientific of old growth forests and how they enhance understanding of human history and events via old trees & their rings hofstra.campuslabs.com/engage/event...

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All these trees were alive during Ötzi’s lifetime! 🏹 Mid-Holocene (5.4 to 5.0 ka) subfossil Pinus cembra collected few years back at an Alpine glacier! 🧊🔥 To help me collect more of these samples this year, you can buy other unique pieces of wood here: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏

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Excited to read this article. This morning I was just working with tree-ring data that vividly display the role of Indigenous people on influencing the "wilderness" forests of the Lake Superior basin prior to the arrival of Europeans. The fire data is from the Missouri lab highlighted here.

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The hypothesis is that fire adapted species (oaks, hickories) will perform best is soils from savannas experiencing frequent fires, due to how fire shapes plant-microbe (esp mycorrhizae) relationships Fire sensitive species (maples, cherries) will do best in soils from fire-suppressed savannas

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New research happening to test how prescribed fire shapes plant-soil feedbacks in oak savannas Tree seedlings are growing in soils collected from plots with/without recent management with fire, within our long-running prescribed fire experiment at the MSU MacCready Reserve

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