Category: Research

If you visit Paint Rock in deep summer, these are the people you want to have with you. John and Kendra Abbott are anxious to see the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History take a

E.O. Wilson, Pulitzer-prize winning author and Harvard’s pre-eminent evolutionary biologist, sees Alabama in a way that few other people can. Like so many Alabamians, Ed is proud of his alma mater, the University of Alabama. And

Understanding how to conserve forests like this–particularly as climate changes–is going to depend on how well we understand what species are and how they interact with each other. But plants don’t wear labels. And sometimes the

If we’re going to save species, we probably ought to have a good handle on what a species is. But nearly every day, Paint Rock raises important new questions about what a species is, and how

The revolving door of visiting scientists spun faster as the week went on. Like one of those great blue herons that sometimes finds itself in the backyard lily pond, John Pickering landed Thursday night–and we wondered

Maybe the last time there was this much brainwork in North Alabama was when moonshiners and revenuers played their cat and mouse games in these steep coves. Tony Hiss, the famous New York travel and conservation

Two of the great minds of the Smithsonian’s international ForestGEO program, Stephen Hubbell (distinguished professor of evolutionary biology at UCLA) and Richard Condit (with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago), bring their expertise to

It apparently doesn’t take long to find something in Paint Rock that no one has ever seen or documented before. Luben and Bill got lost in grant deadlines. Patty and Steve got lost in the great