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Climate Change Projected to Alter Indiana Bat Maternity Range
Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). Photo by Adam Mann, Environmental Solutions and Innovations, courtesy of USFWS. Research by U.S. Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50...
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Moving Harper’s Beauty Off Road
Harper’s beauty in bloom, from a previous year. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. The first week of March found a team of plant biologists down on their knees in a highway right-of-way in the Florida...
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Indiana Bats and Prescribed Fire
Indiana bat in hibernacula. Photo by Andrew King, US Fish & Wildlife Service, courtesy of Bugwood.org. A two-day workshop held in western North Carolina provided research results to forest and...
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SRS Researchers Awarded Grants for Research on White Nose Syndrome
Cluster of Indiana bats in a cave. Photo by Roger Perry. U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) researchers and collaborators just received news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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Driving OHVs through Streams
Researchers survey a stream crossing. Photo by Virginia McDaniels, U.S. Forest Service. Millions of people enjoy nature while riding all-terrain vehicles, utility or recreational off-highway vehicles,...
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Bringing Fire Back to the Kisatchie Sandstone Hills
The Kisatchie Sandstone Hills of Louisiana provide habitat for many rare plants and animals such as red-cockaded woodpeckers and Louisiana pine snakes. Photo by Andy Scott. The hillside bogs, sandstone...
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Bold Moves Needed to Save North America’s Freshwater Mussels
Plain pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis cardium) showing the lure it uses to draw fish close enough to deposit larvae in their gills as part of its unique reproductive cycle. Photo by Wendell Haag. North...
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Lampreys, Paddlefishes, and Mooneyes, to Name a Few
Johns Hopkins University Press recently published the first volume of a long-awaited reference work on North American freshwater fishes edited by U.S. Forest Service fisheries research scientist Mel...
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Conservation and Management of Eastern Big-Eared Bats
Virginia big-eared bats. Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Published in 2012, the U.S. Forest Service publication Conservation and Management of Eastern Big-Eared Bats brings together...
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Freshwater Crayfish in Peril Worldwide
Procambarus lagniappe, the lagniappe crayfish, from Mississippi. Photo by Chris Lukhaup, courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service. In early January, scientists led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)...
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Fishing for Clues to Mussel Decline in Horse Lick Creek
CATT Team member Lilly O’Dea with mussel silo. Photo by Anna Walker. How do U.S. Forest Service research scientists take their experiments from the laboratory to the field? For a first-hand look at the...
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Managing Forests to Conserve Bat Populations Affected by White-Nose Syndrome
A tri-colored bat, an eastern North American bat species heavily impacted by white-nose syndrome. Photo by Roger Perry, U.S. Forest Service. In March 2016, scientists found bats infected with...
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Pondberry Responds to Light Availability and Soil Flooding
Pondberry can persist under stressful environmental conditions of low light availability and seasonal soil flooding for at least three years. USFS photo. Pondberry is endangered, but it can persist...
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The Yazoo Darter is becoming imperiled, but it is easier than other darter species to raise in captivity. Photo by Fredlyfish4, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Increasingly, recovery plans for imperiled...
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Detecting the Pathogen That Stalks the Endangered Florida Torreya
Florida torreya (Torreya taxifolia) is a critically endangered conifer tree in swift decline since the 1950s. The torreya fungus (Fusarium torreyae) is currently devastating the remaining Florida...
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Freshwater Fishes of North America, Volume 2
The highly anticipated second volume of Freshwater Fishes of North America was just published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This volume was edited by USDA Forest Service fisheries research...
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One Treatment Does Not Fit All Sizes
Leanne Burns and a colleague set up a bat detector. Burns is a researcher at Clemson University and senior author of the Forest Ecology and Management paper. USDA Forest Service photo by Susan Loeb....
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Electrofishing for Crayfish
From left to right, Carl Smith (biological technician), Gordon McWhirter (retired hydrological technician), and Ethan Liles (volunteer) electrofish for crayfish in Alabama streams. USDA Forest Service...
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Pondberry needs light to thrive
Pondberry is an endangered, aromatic shrub that grows on the edges of wetlands and in seasonally flooded hardwood forests in the Coastal Plain. Photo by Hugh and Carol Nourse. Pondberry (Lindera...
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Tri-colored bats & white-nose syndrome
Susan Loeb and her colleagues survey bats in Stumphouse Tunnel, South Carolina. Photo by Ben Neece, USDA Forest Service volunteer. The only mammal that truly flies, bats are celebrated for many...
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