Jack Putz News Today

State forestry officials and researchers say Florida has learned its lesson since the devastating wildfires of 1998.

Jack Putz has studied vines for 50 years. Now he has co-authored a study on how controlling them could improve the health of trees in the world's forests and increase their carbon uptake.

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Pocket gophers aerate and fertilize the soil in a practice that encourages rudimentary food production, researchers claim. But not everyone agrees.

Southeastern pocket gophers promote and defend meandering tunnels of underground roots and collect them for food, Florida researchers say.

We're not the only mammals that farm for a living. Pocket gophers do, too, tending to roots they harvest for food in 500-foot-long tunnels.

A study finds that roots grow deeper than typical into southeastern pocket gophers tunnel networks, raising the possibility that the rodents cultivate their food.

A locally common and lowly plant known as elephantsfoot pushes away neighbors with a pound-for-pound force equivalent to those of its namesake.

Coastal towns in Florida are bracing themselves against rising sea levels. A Miami-area startup provides sea level rise assessment reports and advice on individual property parcels in vulnerable cities in South Florida. On the Gulf of Mexico, the village of Yankeetown is protecting its surrounding marshland to use as a buffer against rising seas.

Cypress populations are recovering after a century of selective logging.