Spring flowers of Southern Appalachia

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The event will be held in person in Asheville, North Carolina. It is part of a new series of free in-person lunch talks at Bent Creek Experimental Forest. 

Join us to hear Margaret Woodbridge, a USDA Forest Service researcher,  discuss spring wildflowers in western North Carolina and beyond. 

Woodbridge received her B.S. degree in biology in 2012 from Appalachian State University. In 2015, she earned an M.S. in natural resources science and management from the University of Minnesota, where she studied the impact of variable retention harvesting on natural regeneration and ground-layer plant communities in red pine forests. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology in 2020 from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. Her Ph.D. focused on the long-term, landscape-scale impact of early 20th century logging on plant communities in the southern Appalachians.

Since graduating, Woodbridge has worked on several projects as a post-doctoral researcher with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station. These include understanding how mesophication varies in eastern forests and characteristics of old growth forests in the Southeast. She is currently working on a project modeling hardwood regeneration and restoration potential across the eastern hardwood forests.