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To understand Morgan Bettcher’s path to the University of Georgia, you also need to understand wetlands.

Both are a bit complicated—but this is also the beauty of it.

Just as there’s no one path to UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, there’s also no one template… Read Article

A new club for students at the University of Georgia aims to celebrate the connections between Black students and the outdoors.   Through on-campus discussions and off-campus field trips to state parks, Get Outdoors offers experiences couched in a context that can help students gain a… Read Article

Invasive species cause an estimated $120 billion in damages across the United States each year. These consequences affect wildlife, farms, human health, recreation and native fisheries.

To help counter these effects, the federal government recently reestablished the Invasive Species… Read Article

The University of Georgia is a partner in a new $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that will help landowners better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions.   The project, called PERSEUS (Promoting Economic… Read Article

Walk through a forest and you’re witnessing a quiet competition.

As trees grow, they compete with other plants for water and light. Sometimes this means one tree dominates the resources, but other times the… Read Article

For decades, it’s been assumed that trees die from forest fires because they lose their leaves or the ability to move water within their trunks. In theory, they die of dehydration or starvation.

But a new study co-authored by a professor at the University of Georgia challenges these… Read Article

Nestled in the “wheat-sheep” belt in Australia, a couple hours inland from the more populated coast, there’s a garden of eucalyptus trees. They’ve been assembled here, in this agricultural region, to fulfill a need.

They were sourced from across the country where they were once widespread… Read Article