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Jessica Hellmann at the University of Notre Dame, Shannon and colleagues performed field and laboratory reciprocal translocation experiments with skipper (<em>Erynnis propertius</em>) and swallowtail (<em>Papilio zelicaon</em>) butterfly populations from Oregon and Vancouver Island. The aim of the study was to determine</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div id="node-351" class="node node-news-and-highlights node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">August 1, 2009</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/orchid-added-harvard-forest-flora">Orchid Added to Harvard Forest Flora</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/news/orchid-added-harvard-forest-flora"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/purpleFringed_orchid.jpg?itok=fZRCrApA" alt="Purple Fringed Orchid" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>After even the most careful botanical survey, the woods reveal new and lovely surprises. Purple-fringed orchid, first observed in the Simes Tract of Harvard Forest in July 2008, was tentatively identified this season as a species never-before recorded at the Harvard Forest: <em>Platanthera grandiflora</em>, the greater purple fringed orchid. While its congener, the lesser purple fringed orchid (<em>Platanthera psycodes</em>) was</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-352" class="node node-news-and-highlights node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">August 1, 2009</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/harvard-forest-studies-rare-pitch-pine-communities">Harvard Forest Studies Rare Pitch Pine Communities</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/news/harvard-forest-studies-rare-pitch-pine-communities"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/paper29cover.jpg?itok=T3OBE6ou" alt="Dwarf Pitch Pine Cover" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>Harvard Forest scientists Glenn Motzkin, David Orwig, and David Foster recently used a combination of dendroecological, historical, and field studies to examine the long-term history, development, and vegetation dynamics of 3 dwarf <em>P. rigida</em> (pitch pine) locations in the southern Taconic mountains of southwest Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut. All three sites supported communities dominated (80 to 98% relative importance) by</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div id="node-353" class="node node-news-and-highlights node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-date field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">August 1, 2009</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/graphing-data-schoolyard-research">Graphing Data from Schoolyard Research</a></h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>Dr. Betsy Colburn Harvard Forest Schoolyard Science Program has completed <a href="/sites/default/files/publications/pdfs/Colburn_Schoolyard%20Graphing%20Manual_2009.pdf" target="_blank">Show Me a Picture, Tell Me a Story: An Introduction to Graphs for the Analysis of Ecological Data from Schoolyard Science Research Studies</a>. This guide for teachers discusses the use of graphs to interpret ecological data collected in schoolyard research studies. 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