Cloquet Forestry Center

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Help us grow our inventory of species at the CFC! We’re encouraging folks to record observations of plants, animals, fungi, or other species that you see here. Any observations on the CFC property will automatically be added to the CFC project on iNaturalist, which you can see at http://z.umn.edu/inatCFC. (Please stay on or near roads and away from research plots.)

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February 6, 2023

View From the Woods 2022

January 6, 2023

Check out the 2022 newsletter recap from the Cloquet Forestry Center.

Restoring fire to the Cloquet Forestry Center

November 15, 2022

Collaboration between the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Bureau of Indian Affairs and U of M opens new chapter, embraces the role of Indigenous fire in shaping the Center’s forests

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Accounting for Carbon: How much carbon is stored at the UMN Cloquet Forestry Center?

Measuring and managing forest carbon stocks is a key approach to lessening the effects of human-induced climate change. Forests sequester more carbon annually than any other land use and have the potential to uptake carbon released through energy production, transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, and forestry. But how can we measure, with certainty, the carbon stored in our forest lands? Ethan Emick, a Master's student and research associate working with Assistant Professor Chad Babcock in the UMN Department of Forest Resources, explains their recent efforts to inventory carbon stocks at the CFC using a fusion of forest data.

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