Press release from Mars Hill College Mars Hill College will host
a program on Monday, March 4, which will explore the USDA’s
Forest Service ForWarn System, a set of satellite-based forest
assessment tools for examining threats for healthy forests. The
program, titled "ForWarn: A Forest Disturbance Change Detection
System to Aid Forest Managers," will take place at 7 pm in Room
135 of the Ferguson Math and Science Center. It will be led by
Dr. Bill Hargrove, research ecologist with the USDA’s Forest
Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center.
The event is free and open to the public Since 2006, Dr.
Hargrove has worked at the EFETAC, on a satellite-based forest
disturbance monitoring system for the contiguous United States.
The system delivers new forest change images every eight days
and provides tools for attributing abnormalities to insects,
disease, wildfire, storms, human development or unusual weather.
According to Dr. Scott Pearson, professor of biology at Mars
Hill College, healthy fo