Caitlin MacKenzie
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Caitlin MacKenzie
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Plant ecologist, lover of tiny alpine communities on small mountains, faculty at Bennington College, Plant Love Stories co-founder, she/her
To be fair to that incredible sculpture park, I was obsessed with this uncanny tree sculpture and I started teaching forest ecology methods with Josephine Halvorson's Measure (Tree) and that piece really seems to resonate with students.

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Outlooks: Josephine Halvorson
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July 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
She was an incredible science writer. Her prose is beautiful. I taught The Edge of the Sea to freshmen in a "welcome to college, take a required writing course" class.

Also she asked E.B. White at the New Yorker to write about pesticides and he demurred. Carson: guess I'll roll up my sleeves...
April 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The US Forest Service Forest Inventory & Analysis is just incredible — and also the Forest Atlas is gorgeous research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/6...
Forest Atlas of the United States | US Forest Service Research and Development
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April 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Miller's paper is the bizarro Brown paper! Two analyses of FIA plot data: one that focuses on where the logging is happening and one that shines a light on where the logging is not happening!
April 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Tomorrow I'm going to introduce Kathryn Miller's paper "National parks in the eastern United States harbor important older forest structure compared with matrix forests" — also based on USFS FIA data (and NPS I&M)...
April 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My students read Michelle Brown's "Timber harvest as the predominant disturbance regime in northeastern U.S. forests: effects of harvest intensification" which uses USFS FIA data to track trends in logging...
April 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Absolutely!
April 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM