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Warnell professor helps keep U.S. forests healthy February 19, 2021 Elizabeth McCarty helps landowners make research-based decisions The research and outreach of the University of Georgia’s Elizabeth McCarty has helped keep more than 150,000 towering hemlocks across the eastern United States healthy, all while minimizing the use of insecticide. McCarty, an assistant professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, developed a method to optimize the dosing of an insecticide that controls a pest from Asia that has devastated hemlocks from the north Georgia mountains to Maine...

Saving local biodiversity in the South through community partnerships John Maerz Written by Leonor Sierra Published 12.09.20 It was a fall night, 10 years ago, and John Maerz was in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina for his first night of work on a new project. In the dark on the wet forest floor, he was looking for salamanders. When he caught one, he tagged it with a special “tattoo” and released it. One of them was no more than 3-months old and less than an inch long. Only a fraction of animals this small will survive to adulthood, so Maerz didn’t have expectation h...

The weather loach, an eel-like invasive species of fish, was discovered in an Athens creek in November 2020. This brings light to the University of Georgia’s research involving non-native species, including that of the large and vibrant Joro spider. An invasive species is defined as a non-native species whose introduction is likely or proven to cause environmental harm, economic damage or harm to human health, according to the Georgia Invasive Species Task Force. While their impact on ecology may be unpredictable at times, the presence of invasive species undoubtedly disrupts a fragile b...