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Harvard Forest Research Project 2024

• Title: Long-term impacts of hurricane and salvage logging disturbance on the Pisgah Forest
• Principal investigator: Anthony D'Amato (awdamato@uvm.edu)
• Institution: University of Vermont (UVM)
• Primary contact: Anthony D'Amato (awdamato@uvm.edu)
• Team members: Audrey Barker Plotkin
  Olivia Box
  David Foster
  Shawn Fraver
  David Orwig
  Emma Sass
  Jamie Waterman
• Abstract:

  This project examines the long-term development of forests on the Harvard Tract following the 1938 hurricane and the influence post-hurricane salvage logging had on the forests adjacent to the old-growth Tract. Much of this work builds upon the decades of long-term data that have been collected on the recovery of the old-growth Harvard Tract from the 1938 hurricane and includes the expansion of these data to areas that were old-growth forests at the time of the 1938 hurricane, but either subsequently harvested or salvage logged. This expansion provides an opportunity to contrast the natural post-disturbance development of the Harvard Tract with areas experiencing post-disturbance management interventions to inform questions regarding the long-term impacts of salvage logging on ecosystem recovery.