Do you know any students or recent graduates interested in exploring park careers? We post paid and unpaid internships at nps.gov/cuva/getinvolv…. We currently have two openings in community engagement and one in our archives. Details are in the link. Photo: NPS/Penny Uhlenbrock.

Yay for transforming golf courses into wild habitat, like Cuyahoga Valley NP and Cleveland Metroparks is doing! nytimes.com/2024/02/15/cli…

Great new resource for helping you select what species of trees to plant in your yard! Based on height, growth rate, sun/shade tolerance, lifespan, soil type, soil moisture, climate tolerance, stress tolerance. treeselector-clevelandmetroparks.com/tree-selector Thanks Cleveland Metroparks!

My first research experience was in a herbarium William & Mary. In fact, I got to visit and exchange specimens with many herbaria for that project. I got drawn in to the potential to study ecological history via collections and never looked back.

Great 5-minute video interview of me explaining our latest work on land use change and forest history in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Thanks Liv Ream and CoolCleveland! youtube.com/watch?v=vt076-…

“We soon learned that far greater threat to the land lay in road-building than in logging the timber.” For the latest Smithsonian Magazine, I wrote about the history of public lands road construction and the movement to unmake our infrastructure. #roadecology smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study from Baldwin Wallace University Kathryn Flinn tracks the change. Terrific coverage by Ideastream News News 🌳 wyso.org/2024-02-28/cuy…

Listen for the story about our research today during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on our local NPR station, WKSU 89.7 Ideastream News. Thanks to Ida Lieszkovszky for her thorough reporting! Baldwin Wallace University ideastream.org/environment-en…

BW faculty and student researching together ~ Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study tracks the change ideastream.org/environment-en…

Here's your friendly reminder that the best time to prune a Bradford Pear is any time your saw is sharp, and the ideal cut is horizontal and 4 inches from the ground. This is mostly for you Dr. David Coyle.

Is there a #woodwideweb? For @Nature_news I look at the science behind this idea – and how scientists working in #forestecogy, #soils and #fungi feel about popular claims that trees care for each other via a fungal network in the soil bit.ly/3PNursZ

Spread the word... All 1938 aerial photos of Cuyahoga County, Ohio are now freely available to everyone in this digital archive: libguides.bw.edu/c.php?g=1379215

My first ever opinion piece for the The Guardian! In it, I delve into the Wood Wide Web, the rise of scientific myths (including the Great Wood of Caledon), and why we should not fear difficult ideas. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Biodiversity loss is not only about extinctions It is also the degradation of ecosystems - supporting a few generalist species, with reduced food webs, & looking the same wherever you go As seen over much of the UK

The remarkable story of the dawn redwood – how a living fossil long thought extinct brought humanity together in the middle of a World War themarginalian.org/2023/01/31/daw…

Ecologists seek to understand how spp distributions relate to environmental factors, but often relationships are radically human-altered. Our new Journal of Vegetation Science paper uses historical data in niche models to understand presettlement distributions of forest trees. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70…

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth scim.ag/3Cp5C35

Ecologists seek to understand how species distributions relate to environmental factors, but often these relationships are radically human-altered. @Flinnlab et al use historical data & SDMs to understand the presettlement distributions of forest trees. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70…