• March 31, 2023- The MOFEP Woody Vegetation crew wraps up a successful field season. The crew completed surveys of all 648 vegetation plots!
• October 15, 2022- The 8 person Woody Vegetation crew arrived to start their field season.
• June 1, 2022- Dr. Knapp (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) and co-authors publish “Escaping the fire trap: Does frequent, landscape-scale burning inhibit tree recruitment in a temperate broadleaf ecosystem?” in Forest Ecology and Management.
• October 1, 2021- The Missouri Conservationist publishes a NatureLab article about MOFEP's contribution to MDC's new integrated planning tool. View the article here.
• August 26, 2021- Dr. Zhaofei Fan published "Scale effects on the prediction of rare events in mature second-growth oak forests: a simulation study of cavity trees" in Forestry Research. Find the publication here.
• May 25, 2021- MOFEP site tour for University of Missouri forestry students.
• January 2021- Dr. Shunzhong Wang (Visiting Scholar, University of Missouri) and co-authors publish “Forest management effects on downed dead wood at stand and landscape scales in a temperate forest of the central United States” in Forest Ecology and Management.
• October 2020- Dr. Benjamin Knapp (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) presented the recent downed dead wood research at the Society of American Foresters National Convention.
• October 16, 2019- Brad Graham joins the MOFEP team as the new Overstory Project Lead and MDC Forest Ecologist. Welcome, Brad!
• October 4, 2019- Dr. Robert Marquis (Professor, University of Missouri – St. Louis) and co-authors publish “Declines and Resilience of Communities of Leaf Chewing Insects on Missouri Oaks Following Spring Frost and Summer Drought” in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
• June 4, 2019- MOFEP site tour for University of Missouri forestry students. Learn more here
• June 2019- Dr. Robert Marquis (Professor, University of Missouri – St. Louis) and co-authors publish “Illustrated Guide to the Immature Lepidoptera on Oaks in Missouri” from data collected on MOFEP. The guide is available for download at Illustrated Guide to the Immature Lepidopteran on Oaks in Missouri (fs.fed.us) .
