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A new project, led by Michael R. Coughlan, from the Initiative for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments (IROCE) explores historic land use practices to create a template for future sustainable & resilient forest management #wildfire research.uoregon.edu/about/announce…

Time to re-think what is a natural forest: Check our new study in Science Advances: Substantial light #woodland & open vegetation characterized the temperate #forest #biome before Homo sapiens science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🌳🌿🐘🦬🍃🌼 #Pleistocene #vegetation #megafauna

Read #DiverseK China Workshop Report-cum-White Paper "Challenges and opportunities for paleo-informed ecosystem conservation in Asia" in the latest edition of Past Global Changes Magazine: doi.org/10.22498/pages…

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I am honored to be part of this effort: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Newest article on our work in the Basque Pyrenees is out! 1000 years of commons grazing, collective action, and cooperative networks: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Let me roll it to you: 1. Trump lost the 2020 election. 2. Trump lied about losing. 3. Trump lost in court 60 times appealing his loss. 4. Trump has been indicted in 4 different jurisdictions. 5. . . . for 91 felonies. 6. Trump lied about having classified documents. 7. Trump

EWP at the University of Oregon is hiring a research assistant. The position involves fieldwork in rural, forest-based communities in the PNW. Join our team! DM me for questions.

Proud to see Alison Deak’s thesis published Ecosphere #OpenAccess “Prescribed fire placement matters more than frequency and extent in a simulated Pacific Northwest landscape” an interdisciplinary collaboration with @MelissaLucash Michael R. Coughlan @ShelbyAWeiss SPA_research

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Lessons from whaling cities of the past may inform the present transition away from oil and gas toward renewable energy sources, finds researchers in UMD Department of Anthropology. For insights on what Louisiana & Texas could learn from Nantucket & New Bedford, MA, visit go.umd.edu/ANTHlaborarch

Happy to share our latest efforts! #collaboration; #Indigenousfire; #Cascades. frontiersin.org/journals/envir…

Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until 2000 BC! But why did they go extinct? Were they doomed once stuck on the island? We went to Siberia, collected bones & teeth, and sequenced 21 complete genomes. Here is what we found (🧵) Paper in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Some results from U.S. National Science Foundation funded research University of Oregon Andrews Forest Oregon State University "Carbon-Water Tradeoffs in Old-Growth and Young Forests" AGU Advances: Old-growth forests of the #PNW not only store more carbon but are more drought-resistant than younger forests agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Remember to check out Coughlan et al.'s study demonstrating the importance of #Indigenous peoples' role in driving montane forest dynamics in the Pacific North West! Read the full article in Frontiers in Environmental #Archaeology ⬇️ fro.ntiers.in/FireStewardship Michael R. Coughlan

Research in Jasper NP does not support this outdated claim: Fire suppression HAS altered a historical mixed-severity fire regime & homogenised forest structure. In the absence of fire, forests have matured, creating forest structures more conducive to high-severity fire.

We are hiring! resilient.uoregon.edu/ewp Faculty Research Assistant/Associate in Qualitative Natural Resources Social Science. PM me for details. Apply here: careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/5334…