Stephanie Yelenik, a research associate in FES, is featured in OSU's The Daily Barometer.  Yelenik encourages Oregonians to landscape with native plants to help support the ecosystem.  She conducted research on invasive plant species at the University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on the belowground effects of invasive plants. Nitrogen was found to be a major culprit in perpetuating the cycles of incoming invasive plants. 

Research from FES Ph.D. student Cristina Eisenberg was shown on CBS (Denver) about her Colorado wolf work. It is the first of three stories about her work on the High Lonesome Ranch, airing in Colorado only right now, but eventually to be televised nationally. The next segment will be about trophic cascades, and the final segment will be about living with wolves on a working ranch.

A research team led by Scott Goetz of the Woods Hole Research Center, and including FES Assistant Professor Matt Betts, has helped bring habitat sensing into the 21st century. The researchers combined satellite data, a ground-based bird census, light detection and ranging (lidar), and a new modeling technique to correctly predict the presence of songbirds in a forest. Their results were published this week in the journal Ecology.

A better understanding of tree genetics enables timber companies to make smarter, more sustainable decisions, and allows tree farmers to improve their yield so that more wild forestland can be left alone.  It is as straightforward an eco-premise as they come: be more efficient with the resources we use so as to reduce our overall take.  FES professor Steve Strauss talks about his work in tree genetics.