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CENTRAL APPALACHIAN SPRUCE RESTORATION INITIATIVE

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Restoring Red Spruce Forests

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 Olivia Miller

As cool, moist air kisses your skin, the very ground beneath your feet feels less than solid. A squelchsound accompanies every

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A Boost for Red Spruce: Helping a Keystone Species Adapt to Climate Change

June 2, 2023 Olivia Miller

By looking at spruce growth in research gardens and spruce genes in the lab, the project is investigating how P. rubens declined

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Ecology Red Spruce Why Red Spruce is Important 

WVU biologists uncover forests’ unexpected role in climate change

June 1, 2023 Olivia Miller

New research from West Virginia University biologists shows that trees around the world are consuming more carbon dioxide than previously reported, making forests

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Seeding the Future

June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 Olivia Miller

Year by year, with perseverance, Dave Saville has grown a towering tree-planting operation. Sealed in stackable plastic boxes alongside the

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Ecology News Red Spruce Why Red Spruce is Important 

Surprising Recovery of Red Spruce Shows Value of Clean Air Act

June 1, 2023 Olivia Miller

Since the 1960s, scientists at the University of Vermont have been documenting the decline of red spruce trees, casualties of

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News Why Red Spruce is Important 

Restoring a Spruce Forest in Appalachian with Green Forests Work

March 8, 2019September 25, 2019 Hannah Wroton

Green Forests Work is partnering with the National Forest Foundation on the Monongahela National Forest to plant native seedlings across 100

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News Why Red Spruce is Important 

Restoring WV Spruce Means Cleaner Air for the Region

July 21, 2016September 25, 2019 Dave Saville

Restoring highland Appalachian spruce forests could help reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.All healthy forests take CO2 out

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News Why Red Spruce is Important 

Daily Mail editorial: Red spruce restoration to benefit the forest and state

January 7, 2016September 25, 2019 Dave Saville

Leader; “We’re bringing back our iconic mountaintop forests through restoration efforts in the Monongahela National Forest and elsewhere providing habitat

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Restoration Approach

May 25, 2015December 28, 2018 Dave Saville

Restoration ApproachThis document describes CASRI’s approach to red spruce-northern hardwood ecosystem restoration in the Central Appalachians. CASRI embarked on restoration

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Red spruce ecosystem Research Why Red Spruce is Important 

Spruce and Soil Organic Carbon

June 11, 2014September 25, 2019 Dave Saville

Through a partnership between the Monongahela National Forest and West Virginia University called the West Virginia Restoration Venture, two white

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WHO WE ARE

This website has been established and is being managed by the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy to support the work of the Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (CASRI).

CASRI is a partnership of diverse interests with a common goal of restoring historic red spruce-northern hardwood ecosystems across the high elevation landscapes of Central Appalachia.

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