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2026
2026
Check out our Fall newsletters from the Wyoming Forest Resilience Initiative!
We launced Wyld Fire, a web dashboard built/hosted by WyGISC to help utilities, municipalities, land managers, and private landowners assess wildfire risk and compare to surrounding areas. Read more at UW News.
Congrats on graduating, Maddy Stone! Maddy (MS, 2026) is the first Furniss Lab graduate, commemorated by adding her tree tag to the joint Furniss-Germain Labs Alumni board.
We are stoked to announce that the Grand Teton Froest Dynamics Plot has been officially added to the Smithsonian ForestGEO network!
Read more about it in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Blog. Smithsonian adds a Site in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains to global forest monitoring network. By Elisabeth King, 1/12/2026.
And on the University of Wyoming News site: UW Professors and Smithsonian Add Teton Site to Global Forest Monitoring Network.
2025
2025
We are excited to share a great article in Reflections Magazine featuring the work Sara and Tucker are doing in Grand Teton National Park. Read more here: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees. By Brooke Ortel.
Tucker was featured on Fire Ecology Chats Podcast. Episode 57: Wildfire management decisions outweigh mechanical treatment as the keystone to forest landscape adaptation. By Bob Keane, 6/30/2025.
Want to know more about how the recent Executive Orders could affect forests in Wyoming? Tucker talked to a reporter with the Buckrail. How new forestry order could impact Wyoming. By River Stingray, 3/6/2025.
2022
2022
Tucker's Ecological Applications article "Crowding, climate change, and the case for social distancing among trees" gets some press. Circulated by: Science Daily, Eureka Alert, Environmental News Network, USU Today, Open Access Government, Phys.org, News Concerns, Earth.com. 1/28/2022. By Lael Gilbert.
Prior media
Prior media
BBC, 6/12/2019. Tracking the lives of some of the oldest and tallest trees in the world. By Peter Bowes; filmed and edited by Colleen Hagerty. BBC Facebook. Peter Bowe's blog. Picked up by Utah State Today.
University of Montana, 5/10/2018. Study: Largest 1 Percent of Trees Make Up Half of Mature Forest Biomass Worldwide.
Eurekalert, 5/8/2018. Inequality is normal: Dominance of the big trees. By Traci Hillyard. Also at Utah State Today.
Utah State Today, 6/30, 2017. Global forest research explains tropical biodiversity. By Traci Hillyard.
Herald Journal, 7/10/2017. USU helps crack theory on lack of tree diversity in some forests. By Kevin Opsahl.
Utah State Today, 6/30, 2017. Global forest research explains tropical biodiversity. By Traci Hillyard.
UW Today, 10/11/2016. Morel mushrooms pop up, cluster together after wildfires. By Michelle Ma.
University of Washington SEFS Blog, 7/29/2016. Researchers study morel abundance after 2013 Rim Fire. By Karl Wirsing.
Digital Journal, 7/27/2016. Morel mushroom abundance after wildfires is focus of new study. By Karen Graham.
The Missoulian, 7/27/2016. New UM study quantifies morel mushroom abundance after wildfire. By the Missoulian staff.
The Union Democrat, 5/12/2016. New study: Morel mushrooms thrive in Rim Fire burn. By Guy McCarthy.
Smithsonian Center for Tropical Forest Science, 3/31/2014. Research on fire in the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot. By CTFS staff.
Smithsonian, 9/4/2013, "Smithsonian plot burns in Yosemite fires" by Kristen Minogue
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