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CENTRAL APPALACHIAN SPRUCE RESTORATION INITIATIVE

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Restoration

Research by CASRI partners that focuses on red spruce ecosystem restoration.

News Red Spruce Restoration 

Red Spruce Release Training Video

February 3, 2020 Hannah Wroton

Our partners at The Nature Conservancy MD and WV created a fantastic training video on how to release red spruce

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Research Restoration 

Release of Suppressed Red Spruce Using Canopy Gap Creation

January 25, 2016April 10, 2019 Dave Saville

This study reports the results of an understory red spruce release experiment in hardwood-dominated stands that have a small component

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Research Restoration 

Reforestation of Red Spruce (Picea rubens) on the Cheat Mountain Range, West Virginia

May 29, 2013April 10, 2019 Dave Saville

The Cheat Mountain salamander (Plethodon nettingi) is a federally endangered species that relies heavily on red spruce (Picea rubens) for

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Research Restoration 

Reforestation in the Spruce Type

February 7, 2013April 10, 2019 Dave Saville

1949 Journal of Forestry Pages 349-356, Reforestation in the Spruce Type in the Southern Appalachians, Leon S. Minckler. This is

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Reports Restoration 

Barton’s Bench Ecological Restoration Project Update

January 4, 2012September 25, 2019 Dave Saville

Barton’s Bench is an old strip mine site reclaimed in the 1970s and later acquired by the Forest Service. It

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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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CASRI.RS@gmail.com

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