Prescribed fire is growing in popularity as a tool for forest management, but the benefit/cost ratio is hotly contested among natural resource managers. Joe Marschall, research specialist at the Missouri Tree Ring Laboratory, created a tool to quickly and accurately evaluate fire's effects on timber quality in Missouri's oak forests.
Tag: Missouri Department of Conservation
Saving the Bats
A natural resources student gets caught up in a deadly bat disease that has come to Missouri
Kathryn Womack's graduate studies at the University of Missouri School of Natural Resources into the habitats of bats is quickly going from an academic pursuit to one that may play a role in saving the nocturnal creatures from an epidemic.
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