Welcome to the Southern Research Station

The Southern Research Station, with headquarters located in western North Carolina, is the leading organization for research on natural resource management and sustainability in the Southern United States. With a staff of 130 scientists serving 13 Southern States, our mission is to create the science and technology needed to sustain and enhance Southern forest ecosystems and the benefits they provide. (more...)

Message from the Director...

I am Jim Reaves, and I welcome you to the Southern Research Station.

Over my 26 years with the Forest Service, I have had many positions within our agency including scientist and assistant director with the Southern Research Station. Now I am thrilled to be back leading what I believe to be the premiere natural resources research organization in the South!

As I begin my tenure I think that it is important to share with you the basis of my vision for the future. (more....)

Southern Research Station Science Areas
	Forest Threats provides the knowledge and tools required to predict and avert or mitigate the impacts of forest health threats.
	Forest Values considers natural resources and humans inextricably linked in the South. These linkages will only strengthen as increased urbanization, globalization, and shifting values influence and alter how people interact with forests.
	Forest Inventory and Monitoring quantifies and monitors the condition of natural resources in the South. It is critical for determining ecosystem responses to forest health threats and improvements in natural resource condition resulting from management activities.
	Forest Restoration and Management creates and improves tools and technologies that are needed to successfully restore and manage ecosystems in this changing environment.
	Forest Watershed Science provides the knowledge and tools required to manage the full range of forest water resources in a dynamic and complex landscape.

Invasive of the Month: Bamboos

Golden bamboo, Phyllostachys aurea Carr. ex A.& C. Rivière and other invasive bamboos, Phyllostachys spp. and Bambusa spp.

Golden bamboo and other nonnative bamboos are perennial infestation-forming grasslike plants that grow 16 to 40 feet tall. They have joined cane stems and bushy tops of lanceolate leaves in fan clusters on grasslike stems, often golden green. Plants arise from branched rhizomes.

Stem. Solid jointed canes 1 to 6 inches in diameter. Hollow between joints. Golden to green to black. Branches wiry and grasslike from joints. Lower shoots and branches with loose papery sheaths that cover the ground when shed.

Leaves. Alternate, grasslike, often in fan clusters. Blades long and lanceolate, 3 to 10 inches long and 0.5 to 1.5 inches wide. Veins parallel. Often golden, sometimes green or variegated. Hairless except for large hairs at base of petiole, which shed with age. Sheaths encasing stem.

Flowers. Flowers very rarely...(More)

Recent Publications Added To Our Website

We have 26,083 publications online that you can view and print.

• Diurnal roosts of male evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis) in diversely managed pine-hardwood forests
• Modeling the potential of the Northern China forest shelterbelt in improving hydroclimate conditions
• Temporal change in fragmentation of continental US forests
• Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes
• Bugs' bugs
• Long-term streamflow response to climatic variability in the Loess plateau, China
• Bacterial protection of beetle-fungus mutualism
• Watershed evapotranspiration increased due to changes in vegetation composition and structure under a subtropical climate
• Forest hydrology in China: introduction to the featured collection
• Evaluation of the Mike She model for application in the Loess plateau, China
• A design aid for determining width of filter strips
• Forecasting resource-allocation decisions under climate uncertainty: fire suppression with assessment of net benefits of research