Elizabeth Rogers, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., A. Barzagli, B. Caldwell, G. Minotta, G. Nervo, P. Paris, Elizabeth Rogers, F. Salbitano. 2025. Innovative practices in the sustainable management of fast-growing trees – Lessons learned from poplars and willows and other experiences with fast-growing trees around the world
• Brent S. DeBauche, Chung-Ho Lin, Elizabeth Rogers, Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr. 2025. Mini-review of cover crop potential for weed management in agroforestry systems
• Ryan Vinhal, Elizabeth Rogers, Waqar Shafqat, John Kort, Heidi Renninger, Courtney Siegert, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr. 2024. The Future is Green: Integrating Short Rotation Woody Crops (SRWCs), Agroforestry, and Ecosystem Services for Sustainable, Productive Landscapes
• Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Elizabeth Rogers. 2024. Activities related to the cultivation and utilization of poplars, willows, and other fast-growing trees in the United States, 2020-2023
• Elizabeth Rogers, Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Jan Weger, Joris Van Acker, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ian McIvor, Pierluigi Paris, Niels Thevs. 2024. Global applications of fast-growing trees in agroforestry systems
• Elizabeth Rogers, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Ryan Vinhal, Jan Weger, Joris Van Acker, Raju Soolanayakanahally, Priya Pajel, Elaine Springgay, Faustine Zoveda, S Chauhan, Ian McIvor, Pierluigi Paris, H Singh, Niels Thevs, Patrick Worms. 2023. How can fast-growing trees optimize agroforestry benefits? The role of the International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and the Environment.
• Patrick McGovern, Elizabeth Rogers, Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr. 2023. Leveraging Populus field trials to manage environmental and human-induced change
• Elizabeth Rogers, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Chung-Ho Lin, Ryan Vinhal. 2023. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing Populus water use: A literature review
• Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Brent S. DeBauche, Elizabeth Rogers, Andrej Pilipović, Raju Y. Soolanayakanahally, Adam Wiese. 2022. Establishment of willows using the novel DeValix technique: ecological restoration mats designed for phytotechnologies
• Randy Kolka, Robert G. Haight, Chan Lan Chun, Matthew J. Berens, Elizabeth Rogers, Ryan Vinhal, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Keith Nislow, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Stephanie Connolly. 2022. Mercury sulfur initiative: suggested program of research for the Upper Great Lakes States
• Elizabeth Rogers, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Tracy Benzel, Adam Wiese. 2021. Establishment of poplars in soils amended with fibercake residuals from paper and containerboard production
• Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Andrej Pilipović, Elizabeth Rogers, Joel G. Burken, Richard Hallett, Chung-Ho Lin, Bernard G. McMahon, Neil Nelson, Adam Wiese, Edmund O. Bauer, Larry Buechel, Brent S. DeBauche, Mike Peterson, Ray Seegers, Ryan Vinhal. 2021. Establishment of Regional Phytoremediation Buffer Systems for Ecological Restoration in the Great Lakes Basin, USA. I. Genotype × Environment Interactions
• Andrej Pilipović, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Elizabeth Rogers, Bernard G. McMahon, Neil Nelson, Joel G. Burken, Richard Hallett, Chung-Ho Lin. 2021. Establishment of Regional Phytoremediation Buffer Systems for Ecological Restoration in the Great Lakes Basin, USA. II
• Elizabeth Rogers, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Chung-Ho Lin. 2021. A systematic approach for prioritizing landfill pollutants based on toxicity: Applications and opportunities
• Elizabeth Rogers, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., Richard Hallett, William Headlee, Adam Wiese. 2019. Relationships among Root–Shoot Ratio, Early Growth, and Health of Hybrid Poplar and Willow Clones Grown in Different Landfill Soils

• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Rhinelander Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/forestsandranges/locations/rhinelander
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  Landscape Ecology and Sustainability in the Lake States Forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/landscape-ecology
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Prioritizing Landfill Contaminants for Environmental Remediation

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/prioritizing-contaminants
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Agroforestry Phytoremediation Buffer Systems in the Great Lakes Basin

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/phytoremediation-buffers
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Mercury-Sulfur Research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/mercury-sulfur-research
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Multimedia

• Video

  Great Lakes Recovery: Forest Service Tackles Pollution

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/videos/great-lakes-recovery-forest-service-tackles-pollution
• Webinars

  Innovative Approaches to Establishing Trees in Harsh Environments

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/innovative-approaches-establishing-trees-harsh-environments

• University of Missouri, Ph.D., Natural Resources, 2025
• Northern Michigan University, B.Sc., Environmental Science and Elementary Education, 2018