...a U.S. Forest Service researcher said in a lecture at University of Alaska Southeast Tuesday night.Research Forest Pathologist Paul Hennon said growing conditions may become more favorable north and westward of the current distribution for...
...minimize the footprint of the site," Brewster said. The Forest Service was able to call upon some of its own forest pathologists to determine which trees could be kept and which might be at risk of falling and would have to go, he said...
...climate warms, there are some troubling signs.Southeast's Yellow Cedars are in decline. Paul Hennon, research forest pathologist for the U.S. Forest Service said less insulating snow due to a warmer climate is causing cedar to die from root...
...boat-building, but the bulk of the Alaska commercial harvest is sold in Asian markets, said Paul Hennon, a USFS forest pathologist from Juneau and one of the lead authors of the research paper. In Japan, it's valued for its age, tight grain...
...it even more," says Buck Lindekugel, conservation director for the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. A forest pathologist for the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station lab in Juneau has been encouraging the Tongass...
...decline of yellow cedar in its core area of the Panhandle baffled U.S. Forest Service scientists. Hennon, a forest pathologist based at the Pacific Northwest Research Station's Juneau lab, worked on a game of elimination to discover its...
...there's one local professional who wasn't so shocked. "Turns out, it's not surprising," said Paul Hennon, a forest pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service. "I heard a similar story about four or five years ago," he said. "A friend...
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