The Grundy County 4-H forestry judging team won first place in the state competition on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the UT Arboretum. The team will compete in the National 4-H…
Grundy County team wins Tennessee 4-H Forestry Judging Competition
Forestry Club students attend 2024 SAF Convention
Fourteen undergraduate and four graduate students from UT and the Tennessee Chapter of the Society of American Foresters (Forestry Club) attended the national SAF Convention in Loveland, Colo., from Sept.…
Urban Forestry Professor Sharon Jean-Philippe honored by the International Society of Arboriculture
Professor Sharon Jean-Philippe received the 2024 Alex L. Shigo Award for Excellence in Arboricultural Education on August 13 at the International Society of Arboriculture‘s Annual Conference in Atlanta. The award…
Wayne Clatterbuck shares how trees in forests battle for space, light, and other resources, leaving scars
Professor Emeritus Wayne Clatterbuck explains how this competition shapes the forest canopy over time in The Conversation.
Neelam Poudyal co-authors paper on carbon benefits gained from using mass timber for buildings
The paper published by PLOS ONE looks at using mass timber in new mid- to high-rise buildings in the U.S. and the combined carbon benefits from carbon storage and avoided…
Step Outside Podcast: UT Tree Improvement Program lifts white oak seedlings
The program lifted two-year-old white oak seedlings from the East Tennessee Nursery for a U.S. Forest Service research project in Virginia in February. Program Director and septuagenarian Professor Scott Schlarbaum…
UT Forestry Club team members place at 65th Association of Southern Forestry Clubs Conclave
The UT Student Chapter of the Society of American Foresters sent 10 students to the 65th Association of Southern Forestry Clubs (ASFC) Conclave hosted by the University of Florida in…
Forestry students travel to Society of American Foresters Winter Meeting
The Society of American Foresters Student Chapter at UT sent seven students to the Kentucky-Tennessee Society of American Foresters Winter Meeting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee January 24-26, 2024. The students attended…
Tennesseeds: why the Volunteer State is going all in on seed collection
American Forests published a feature on the UT Tree Improvement Program in its winter/spring 2024 magazine issue.
