Proactive Forest Health and Resilience - ProForest

07/02/2025

FINAL EPISODE (for now)

Dr. Heather Alexander joins the Podforest in a discussion about fire regimes. Learn what motivates fire occurrences in different ecosystems and how different environments react to the necessity of fire to forest resilience.

Link to episode here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=7d6b0ab8d20b4941

06/18/2025

EPISODE OUT NOW!
Dr. Tania Quesada enters the Podforest to discuss fusiform rust. Learn the impact of genetics and tree resistance in the study and spread of this disease impacting pine and oak.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=92d5c2ceec25412b

06/04/2025

EPISODE OUT NOW!
Valentina Rollemberg Vaney joins the Podforest to discuss soil! Find out what makes for a good soil, a bad soil, and everything in between. Learn how public resources like the Web Soil Survey and CRIFF (Cooperative Research in Forest Fertilization) can help you!

https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=a395b096de59481b

05/14/2025

We’d like to take a moment to show off and congratulate our own Benjamin Gancarz-Davies who graduated this Spring! Ben earned his bachelor’s degree in media production, management, and technology and graduated summa cm laude!

Ben is the editor of the ProForest PodForest. If you’ve listened to the end of each episode, you hear Ben during the outro. Without Ben, the podcast wouldn’t exist. Ben does an incredible job and we are lucky to work with him.

05/07/2025

EPISODE OUT NOW!

Dr. Caterina Villari joins the Podforest to talk forest pathology! Find out where the worlds of trees, insects, fungi, and diseases collide from the podcast’s first forest pathologist guest.

Find this episode and all others here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=9e1ede7fd0664529

04/23/2025

A morbid discussion on tree death... what causes it and why that's such a hard question to answer.

Join Dr. William Hammond, Plant Ecophysiologist and Associate Professor at UF, in this week's episode of the Proforest Podforest

Check out the episode out now here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=2d453a7b7a6e4eb6

Podcast · ProForest: Proactive Forest Health and Resilience · Immerse yourself in the world of forestry through extension as ProForest coordinator Dr. Tyler Carney hosts guests to talk about all things forestry. Listeners join each new episode to listen to a new guest and different topic within fo...

04/22/2025

Have you checked out the ProForest PodForest Podcast?

Join ProForest coordinator Dr. Tyler Carney in informal conversations with experts on topics pertinent to forest health.

Available wherever you get your podcasts!

https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar

04/09/2025

Beyond the bark-- get an inside look at tree's complex defense systems!

Join Dr. Ken Raffa, emeritus professor of forest entomology at UW-Madison, in this week's episode of the Proforest Podforest.

Check out the episode out now here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=08290fc746a24f4f

04/06/2025

Today kicks off Florida's Annual Wildfire Awareness Week. In observation of this important public awareness week, we wanted to highlight some important resources for Florida Landowners!

A Collection of Resources for Private Landowners, including how to access Prescribed Fire trainings:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FR481

An educational website for understanding prescribed burns and to help educate your friends and neighbors:
https://whyprescribedfire.org/

And lastly, check out our podcast, "Fighting Fire With Fire: Why Prescribed Burns?" featuring Dr. Ludie Bond:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=4e3e239f47c143f5

Podcast · ProForest: Proactive Forest Health and Resilience · Immerse yourself in the world of forestry through extension as ProForest coordinator Dr. Tyler Carney hosts guests to talk about all things forestry. Listeners join each new episode to listen to a new guest and different topic within fo...

03/26/2025

Dr. Jiri Hulcr makes his second appearance on ProForest PodForest, this time with special audio excerpts recorded from his international studies in Indonesia. Learn more about the importance of international entomology in this episode, out now!

Check out this latest episode and all past episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gZqHKzcTbAqKKUvR88Nar?si=6f5bef5829f140b6