Dr. Paul Knapp (Geography and Environmental Sustainability) received new funding from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for the project “A Fire History from Longleaf Pine at the Nichols Preserve, North Carolina.”
The research project will investigate fire history at the Nichols Preserve, a rare, old-growth Piedmont longleaf pine ecosystem undergoing restoration. Researchers will examine fire scares in remnant longleaf pine stumps in order to determine the historical fire frequency of the forest. The hope of the project is to inform management practices for the North Carolina Zoo and have broader impacts for longleaf pine growing throughout the region.
