🌲 Our project MW3 was featured in the Copernicus Forest Network newsletter: https://copwald.thuenen.de/newsletter

@LCRS_UniMR we use satellite-based remote sensing to scale up radial growth and sap flow from ground measurements to forest landscapes.

Upcoming papers: vegetation indices & timing for growth analysis, and new radar-based indices for estimating GPP.

#Forestry #RemoteSensing #Copernicus #ForestHealth #ClimateChange

Forest dieback, often related to #ClimateChange, is increasing in many parts of the world, and there is an urgent need to develop an efficient large-scale monitoring system of forest health, to improve forest management.
This study by Carletti et al 2025, based on a combination of satellite and ground level observations, will allow to improve detection of forest dieback, with a species specific calibration, and can therefore be used to produce high-resolution dieback maps at species levels and thus monitor dieback trends over time.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22797254.2025.2547386#d1e1030

#AcademicChatter #BioDiversity
#ForestManagement #Forests #Forestry
#ForestHealth #ForestDieback #ForestDynamics #ForestMonitoring

🌳 Forest experts say Sudden Oak Death continues to spread into southern Mendocino County. The invasive pathogen has no cure and increases wildfire risk by killing oaks and tanoaks. Crews are being trained to avoid spreading it during fuel reduction work.

https://mendovoice.com/2025/12/sudden-oak-death-continues-to-creep-into-southern-mendocino-county/?utm_campaign=breaking&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#MendocinoCounty #ForestHealth #Wildfire #Forestry #California

Learn how Maine entomologists are working to prevent the next spruce budworm outbreak in my latest article for Northern Woodlands Magazine

https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/preventing-spruce-budworm-outbreak

#foresthealth

Cyclomoose Forest Management Project – comment deadline is October 16th

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) is asking for public moment on the proposed Cyclomoose Forest Management Project. Most of the work would be located in the Coal Creek State Forest near Polebridge. (See the map.)

Comments should be sent to:

Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
Attn: Cullen O’Brien
Stillwater Unit
P.O. BOX 164, Olney, MT 59927
Cullen.O’[email protected]

The comment deadline is October 16, 2025 so, realistically, comments should be sent via email.

For more detail, including project objectives, here’s the meat of the original press release . . .

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), Stillwater Unit is proposing to harvest timber on the following state-owned parcels:

T34N R21W S 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
T36N R22W S36

The proposed Cyclomoose forest management project is located near Polebridge, Montana in Flathead County. Portions of the project area within T34N R21W and within T36N R22W are located approximately 7 miles northwest and 5 miles southwest of Polebridge, MT, respectively. The primary objectives of the Cyclomoose forest management project are:

• • Generate revenue for the Common Schools, Montana Tech, MSU 2nd Grant, Public Buildings, and State Normal School trusts.
  • Enhance the vigor of regenerated timber stands.
  • Regenerate new stands of timber.
  • Promote biodiversity on State ownership by managing for appropriate or desired stand structures and species composition based on ecological characteristics such as topography, habitat type, disturbance regimes, and unique characteristics.
  • Reduce fire hazard and associated risks of loss to the State of Montana and privately-owned land in the Flathead County wildland urban interface.

The project would harvest approximately 2.5-5 million board feet (MMbf) within a 5,500 acre project area. Harvest prescriptions would vary unit by unit and may include: commercial thinning, seed tree, shelterwood, individual tree selection and overstory removal. The proposed harvest would contribute to the DNRC’s sustained yield as mandated by state statute 77-5-222.

Road maintenance, dust abatement, improvements and reconstruction may be needed on existing roads to improve function and drainage of the haul route. Approximately 5 miles of temporary road construction may also be necessary. No permanent roads would be built as part of this project.

Other activities associated with this forest management project may include noxious weed management, pre-commercial thinning, tree planting, mechanical scarification, and slash pile burning.

The DNRC is in the scoping phase of the project environmental assessment, so all volumes, acreages and road distances are preliminary estimates. In preparation for this project, specialists such as wildlife biologists, hydrologists, soil scientists, and archeologists will be consulted.

#CyclomooseProject #forestHealth #MontanaDNRC

A non-native invasive moth has been lurking in the Northeast for more than 120 years and has recently become a pest again – of trees and people – in parts of Maine. Learn more about the ups and downs of browntail moths in my latest article for Northern Woodlands.

#foresthealth #invasives #invasivespecies

https://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolts/browntail-moths

My latest article is timely. #IceIceMaybe #IceStorm #ForestHealth

https://eagletimes.com/2025/02/15/ice-ice-maybe-are-we-due-for-a-major-ice-storm/

Assessing forest health can be challenging for state and federal agencies, which often rely on limited staff to survey vast forest acreage. One of the most efficient ways to monitor large areas is by air. Learn more in my latest article in Northern Woodlands Magazine.

#foresthealth #forestryfriday

https://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolts/aerial-view-forest-health