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Indiana Tree Farm Landowners Clinic

The 2015 Indiana Tree Farm Landowners Clinic is a program designed to provide landowners interested in managing their forests and wild lands an introduction to management practices and resources for advice and assistance. The program is open to anyone interested...

Purdue Partners With Indiana Zoos For Hellbender Conservation

Purdue University is partnering with three Indiana zoos and the state in a conservation program that will involve raising year-old hellbender salamanders and then returning them a few years later to their southern Indiana habitat to be tracked. Rod Williams,...

Terre Haute in Tree Crisis

The Terre Haute area in Indiana is in a tree crisis. With Emerald Ash Borer and other deciding factors, 300+ trees a year will be removed. Over the next few years, this averages to approximately 24 percent of the total trees will be gone....

Bald Eagle Breeding Season Is Upon Us

While most of us think of spring as the bird breeding season, several species get a jump start during the winter. Bald Eagles are one of those species. Winter is a time when Bald Eagles build nests in large trees...

FNR Undergraduate Extension Internship Program

FNR is pleased to announce a new program that will provide undergraduate extension internship opportunities for qualified students this summer. This is an exciting program with the potential to build on an already strong set of FNR extension programs while...

Elkhart Trees Taken Down In Cemetery Due To Disease

Trees in Rice Cemetery in Elkhart, IN, were cut down due to verticillium wilt, a disease causing discoloration and wilt of branches. The fungus causing this disease spreads through roots. Many trees in the cemetery have been marked with a red dot...

FNR Continuing to Study American Chestnut and Red Oak Regeneration

Effects of Root Competition on Development of Chestnut and Oak Regeneration Following Midstory Removal was featured in the Oxford Journals, Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. The Department of Forestry and Natural Resources has continued to work for the regeneration...

New App! Soundscape Recorder

Soundscape ecology is a new field of research that investigates how sound in the environment can be used to assess ecosystem health as well as human connection to nature and the environment in general. With this app, you can help capture...

Monitoring Western Hudson Bay Polar Bear Population

Randy Creaser, a graduate student working with Liz Flaherty, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Habitat Management, is collaborating with Polar Bears International (PBI). This research consists of developing noninvasive methods to monitor the Western Hudson Bay polar bear population using photography. These methods...

New Publication! How to Build a Simple Chair for Schools or Homes in Disadvantaged Areas of the World Using Local Resources and Low-End Technology

Communities in developing countries have limited budgets for education. Even though they may provide a school building, they often don't have money to buy furniture to equip it. However, low-cost, durable, attractive school chairs can be produced in essentially any...

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