Nature Talk with Danielle O’Dell and Emily Goldstein: The Southern Pine Beetle Outbreak

Learn about the Southern Pine Beetle outbreak at Ram Pasture and how climate change is bringing this forest pest to Nantucket’s pitch pine habitats. Danielle O’Dell, Wildlife Research Ecologist at Nantucket Conservation Foundation, and Emily Goldstein Murphy PhD, Research Ecologist at the Nantucket Islands Land Bank, will discuss local and regional impacts of the Southern Pine Beetle. They will provide examples of preventative habitat management that local conservation organizations are currently undertaking to increase the resilience of their pitch pine forests in the face of this destructive threat.