2026 YouTube Release Schedule




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2026 Release Schedule

Date

Title

1/2/2026Predicting the Resistance of Plant-Pollinator Assemblages to Fire
1/9/2026The Impact of Western Fires on Bumble Bee
1/16/2026The Impact of Prescribed Burning on Native Bee Communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Longleaf Pine Savannas in the North Carolina Sandhills
1/23/2026Prescribed Fire Effects on Rangeland Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae) in the Southern Great Plains
1/30/2026Ant Community, Diversity, and Seed Interactions in Longleaf Pine Forest Managed with Frequent Fire
2/6/2026Using Prescribed Fire and Grazing to Manage for Biodiversity in the Great Plains
2/13/2026Short and Long-term Perspectives of Forest Management Effects on Stream Biota
2/20/2026Shrinking Sizes of Unexploited Fish and Salamanders Over the Past 60 Years
2/27/2026On the impacts of multiple disturbances on the resiliency of tropical freshwater food webs and ecosystem services in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
3/6/2026Taking a Long Look at Lakes: Perspectives from the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program
3/13/2026Nature out of Place? Presented by Mason Heberling and Rachel Reeb
3/20/2026Invasive Species Management - Stewards Circle
3/27/2026Integrating Climate Change into Invasive Plant Policy and Management
4/3/2026Invasives Free USA, a Long-Term Approach to Managing Invasive Species
4/10/2026What's That Smell? How Detection Dogs Can Lend a Paw in Conservation Programs
4/17/2026Research & management of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid: The ongoing effort to save hemlock forests in the eastern US & Canada
4/24/2026Changing Disturbances, Ecological Legacies, and the Future of the Alaskan Boreal Forest
5/1/2026Long-term forest carbon dynamics: How site scale research informs regional climate mitigation policy
5/8/2026Forests Don't Read Scientific Papers: Surprising Results from Long-term Ecological Research in Northern Hardwood Forests
5/15/2026Technology in Natural Areas Conservation - Stewards Circle
5/22/2026The Map of Biodiversity Importance: Enhancing Local Conservation Strategies
5/29/2026US National (& International) Vegetation Classification: Hierarchy 3.0, alignment with IUCN
6/5/2026Urban Ecological Infrastructure and Human-Environment Interactions in the Sonoran Desert
6/12/2026Connectivity and Feedbacks Driving Vegetation Change in Drylands
6/19/2026Climate variability at dryland ecotones - how will increasing variance influence ecosystems?
6/26/2026Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe & US Forest Service Memorandum of Understanding
7/3/2026Leech Lake Snowshoe Hare Habitat Project
7/10/2026An Ecological Model for Fire Reintroduction in an Old Growth Red Pine Woodland
7/17/2026Dibaginjigaadeg Anishinaabe Ezhitwaad - A Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu
7/24/2026A Natural Model for Red Pine Plantation Silviculture
7/31/2026Shared Stewardship: Closing Thoughts & Discussion
8/7/2026Shared Stewardship: Collaborating to Effectively Co-Manage the Chippewa National Forest


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