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Protected by Harvard Forest</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/125-acres-conserved-land-acquired-and-further-protected-harvard-forest"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/Woods%20Road%20To%20PCC_lowres.JPG?itok=mIR81c_d" alt="A road through the woods of Harvard Forest " /></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 align="left">The future of approximately 125 acres of land adjacent to Harvard Forest has changed from potential golf course development to scientific research and public access thanks to a lengthy conservation and legal saga that began with trees unlawfully harvested from Harvard Forest land in 2007. <a href="/sites/default/files/media/HF%20PCC%20press%20release_022412.pdf">Read the press release</a> and learn more about <a href="/harvard-forest-and-town-petersham">Harvard Forest's role in local</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div id="node-967" 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">February 9, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/new-harvard-forest-website-launched">New Harvard Forest Website Launched</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/new-harvard-forest-website-launched"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/screenshots.jpg?itok=dle0OZSc" alt="Screenshots from the new Harvard Forest website" /></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>The new Harvard Forest website represents months of effort by Harvard Forest staff and our web development/design consultants, <a href="http://www.digital-loom.com/" target="_blank">Digital Loom</a>.</p><h3>We welcome <a href="/contact-us">your feedback</a>.</h3><p>The site has a new look and additional content, including:</p><ul><li><a href="/real-time-data-graphs">real-time data graphs</a></li><li>information about our <a href="/policy-conservation">policy and conservation</a> work</li><li>a new "<a href="/featured-projects">featured projects</a>" section of web-based learning tools</li><li>stronger visibility for our connections to <a></a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-965" 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">February 9, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/conservation-finance-report-presented-ma-state-house">Conservation Finance Report Presented at the MA State House</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/conservation-finance-report-presented-ma-state-house"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/Sugarloaf%20balloons.jpg?itok=UKY2EWcf" alt="Hot air balloons by Mt.Sugarloaf " /></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>The Massachusetts Commission on Financing Forest Conservation, which includes David Foster, Director of the Harvard Forest, and <a href="/researchers/7038">James Levitt</a>, Director of the <a href="/other-tags/program-conservation-innovation">Harvard Forest Program on Conservation Innovation</a>, presented its final report to the Mass. Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), and several state legislators, at the State House on February 13.</p><p><a href="/sites/default/files/publications/EEA%20press%20release%20-ForestFinancing-2-13-12.pdf" target="_blank">Read the press release from the</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div id="node-971" 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">February 10, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/neon-construction-announced-begin-hf-spring-2012">NEON Construction Announced to Begin at HF in Spring 2012</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/neon-construction-announced-begin-hf-spring-2012"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/neon_logoweb.jpg?itok=J_SGBl79" alt="National Ecological Observatory Network,Inc. logo " /></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>Today the National Ecological Observatory Network--a continental-scale, 30-year research initiative with funding from NSF, DOE, and NASA--announced that it will begin construction at Harvard Forest in spring 2012.</p><p>The Forest is the core site for <a href="http://www.neoninc.org/domains/northeast">NEON's Northeastern domain</a>, and will be one of the first of 21 sites built around the country (construction at the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station in Florida will</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-909" 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">February 1, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/2nd-annual-harvard-forest-winter-break-week-success">2nd Annual Harvard Forest Winter Break Week a Success</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/2nd-annual-harvard-forest-winter-break-week-success"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/kaspari-wintersession.jpg?itok=elUQFmJN" alt="Debby Kaspari leading art workshop" /></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>Ten Harvard students with concentrations ranging from Linguistics to Biology participated in the immersive Harvard Forest Winter Break Week, "Reading the New England Landscape," from January 15 to 20. Harvard researchers in Paleoecology, Atmospheric Sciences, Natural History, Conservation, and Landscape Design led daily field walks and hands-on activities; renowned artists including former Bullard fellow Debby Kaspari led art and illustration</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div id="node-906" 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">February 1, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/2012-maple-syrup-forecast">2012 Maple Syrup Forecast</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/2012-maple-syrup-forecast"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/sugaring.jpg?itok=l5rzjLo3" alt="Maple Sugar Bucket" /></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>For a long time, botanists have known that freeze-thaw cycles in spring determine sap flow in maple trees. Sugar content in the sap also varies from year to year, but less is known about why. One possibility is that plants only have so much sugar to go around, so years when trees make lots of seeds are followed by years</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div id="node-908" 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">February 1, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/middle-holocene-hemlock-dynamics-northern-new-england">Middle-Holocene Hemlock Dynamics in Northern New England</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/middle-holocene-hemlock-dynamics-northern-new-england"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/pond%20core.jpg?itok=0ZCeR7fM" alt="A group pond coring on canoes " /></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>A new paleoecology study by Emerson College/HF scientist Wyatt Oswald and HF director David Foster describes multiple episodes of eastern hemlock population decline ~6,000 years ago in New England. These events precede a major and more often-studied hemlock population decline 5,500 years ago. All of the decline events coincide with indicators of abrupt climate change. The sensitivity of hemlock populations,</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /.node --> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div id="node-907" 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">February 1, 2012</span></div> </div> </div> <h2 class="node-title"><a href="/news/highlights-international-research-collaboration">Highlights from an International Research Collaboration</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/highlights-international-research-collaboration"><img src="https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_highlights_medium/public/Anne-celine-Nicky.jpg?itok=-y4fWF6x" alt="International Graduate Students" /></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>From September 2011 to January 2012, European graduate students Anne-Céline Granjon (France) and Nicky Lustenhouwer <br />(Netherlands) conducted research at Harvard Forest as part of a collaboration between Harvard University and the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (www.evobio.eu). Anne-Céline worked with HF ecologist Kristina Stinson, focusing on the response of common ragweed to climate change. 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