• May 23, 2022- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. The crew will conduct point count surveys and nest surveys to track breeding songbird abundance, nest success, and brood parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds. By the end of the 2022 breeding season, crews will have collected a nearly continuous dataset that enables a comparison of 5 years of pre-treatment results (beginning in 1991) to changes that occurred over 15 years following the first harvest (in 1996) and 10 years after the second harvest entry (in 2011).
  • May 17, 2021- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. Crews are continuing to follow COVID-19 safety precautions.
  • November 2020- David Hollie (Graduate Researcher) and co-authors publish “Avian community response to experimental forest management” in Ecosphere.
  • May 18, 2020- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. This year will be very different for the crew due to COVID-19 safety precautions.
  • August 10, 2019- Dr. Kenneth Kellner (Postdoctoral Fellow, West Virginia University) and co-authors publish “Effects of forest management on vertebrates: synthesizing two decades of data from hardwood forests in Missouri, USA” in Ecological Applications.
  • June 3, 2019- Dr. Andrew George (Assistant Professor, Pittsburg State University) and co-authors publish “Response of Shrubland Birds to Regenerating Clearcut Area and Shape” in The Journal of Wildlife Management.
  • May 20, 2019- The MOFEP bird crew starts their field season.