Check out the latest episode of our ASCC podcast, now back for a second season! ASCC’Ing the Experts was first created by Rylee McMillian, our ASCC intern, over the summer of 2025. Rylee launched the podcast and created Season One, …
Written by Lyndsay Cartwright, a research scientist at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Since European settlement, an estimated 63% of forests have been lost in southern Ontario due to land clearing for agriculture, logging, and urban development (Butt et …
The Flathead National Forest/Coram Experimental Forest ASCC site was established in 2016 in western larch-mixed conifer forests. Recently, site leads and partners hosted a field tour in advance of the North American Forest Ecology Workshop! On an early Monday morning …
Written by Rylee McMillan, previous ASCC Network intern. When I was 10, a teacher asked me to draw myself as an adult working my dream job. Back then I wanted to be an explorer, a daring adventurer wandering the globe …
Check out the latest research from the Cutfoot ASCC site! A new publication from the Cutfoot/Red Pine ASCC site can help inform management decisions for future adaptation plantings in similar red pine ecosystems. Palik et al. (2026) assessed native versus …
Written by Neil Williams, Postdoc with USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station / ORISE Planning for an uncertain future can take many forms. In the ASCC network, experimental treatments designed to adapt forests to an uncertain future climate were developed through …
Adaptive silviculture for climate change in the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Forest Region of Canada: Background and design of a long-term experiment In case you missed it, Thiffault et al. published research on implementation at the Petawawa Research Forest ASCC …
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems In early 2026, Puhlick et al. published research from the Jones Center at Ichauway ASCC site in the Journal of Forestry. This manuscript covers initial treatment outcomes since site implementation, and …
In late 2025, ASCC published a manuscript led by Dr. Linda Nagel in Bioscience titled, “Ten Years of Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: An Applied, Coproduced Experimental Framework.” This manuscript provides examples of how the ASCC Network advances the field …
Operationalizing forest-assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: Examples from the eastern USA As climate conditions continue to shift, understanding forest assisted migration as a possible adaptation tool is increasingly necessary. In 2022, Palik et al. led this …