Wilderness Forests: History, Ecology, and Climate Mitigation

Ed will talk about the history of wildlands/wilderness in our region and wildlands as natural climate solutions for our future. As Senior Ecologist at Highstead, Ed’s work focuses on deer and moose interactions with forests, long-term forest change, wildlands, and natural climate solutions. Ed also advises conservation groups, educators, and land trusts about stewardship and forest monitoring.

Ed has been at Highstead since 2006 after working for several years at Harvard Forest as a research assistant. He holds masters degrees from the University of Vermont and Harvard, and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  While at Harvard, Ed was awarded the 2005-2006 Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays in the Natural Sciences, and in 2015 was runner-up for the Forest History Society’s John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism. His work has been published in scientific and popular journals including Ecology, Arnoldia, Conservation Letters, CT Woodlands, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Cosponsored by the Simsbury Land Trust.