One Plot to Rule Them All

Season 1 | Episode 1 | June 15, 2020

Ensuring forests regenerate well following a harvest is a basic element of sustainable forestry and that is why good monitoring is so important. In this episode, we introduce a new natural regeneration monitoring method, and the program being implemented in Wisconsin, the Forest Regeneration Metric, or FRM. What is FRM, how can foresters use it effectively, and what do we hope to learn about regeneration success and failure in Wisconsin?

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Dustin Bronson

Plant Physiologist, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station

Dustin Bronson is a plant physiologist with the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station in Rhinelander, WI. Dustin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in forest ecology and went on to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of Wyoming and the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a research scientist with the Wisconsin DNR for seven years before joining the Forest Service. Outside of work, Dustin and his family run a small farm that specializes in raising grass-fed beef, pasture-raised hogs, and chickens.

Casey Menick

Forest Regeneration Specialist, Wisconsin DNR

Casey has been with the Wisconsin DNR as a Forest Regeneration Specialist since 2018. She works to coordinate plot measurements and data management for the newly developed statewide forest regeneration monitoring inventory. Previous to her time with the DNR, she was with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and graduated from UW-Madison with degrees in biology and environmental studies in 2014. She is interested in landscape ecology and long-term environmental research.

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One Plot to Rule Them All