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HF&G scientists are making groundbreaking discoveries & saving our native trees.
Holden scientists, conservationists and community foresters are award-winning and nationally acclaimed.
How Nonnative Plants Respond to Climate Change: Holden Arboretum Researchers Report
Scientists agree: Global warming is real, and it’s happening today. Here in northeast Ohio, we can most clearly see the signs during spells of too-warm-too-early weather in the spring or in stronger-than-average storm fronts.
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Holden researchers put forest management strategies to the test. Here’s what they found
Private landowners play a critical role in preserving Ohio’s natural heritage where a majority of the state’s eight million acres of forest are privately owned. To manage these forests, land stewards commonly employ strategies like selective thinning and removal of invasive shrubs, but what do these strategies actually accomplish?
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Continuing our Work on Beech Leaf Disease
One of the reasons why BLD research at Holden Arboretum is important is because we are located in the same county where this disease originated. But it’s also important that we go beyond the arboretum to study this disease as it spreads in Ohio and across North America.
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Latest From the Blog
November 11, 2025
What’s That Thing on the Emergent Tower? HF&G Tests New Forest Pest Monitoring Tool
If you’ve been to the Kalberer Emergent Tower at the Holden Arboretum lately — let’s be honest, who hasn’t (#fall) — you may have noticed something new: A pale purple… more
October 22, 2025
Newfound garlic mustard aphid may help, but won’t solve, our garlic mustard problem
In 2021, Rebecah Troutman — at the time Holden Arboretum’s natural areas biologist — was making her rounds and came across an insect she hadn’t seen before. It appeared to… more
October 17, 2025
Meet Samantha Worthy, Holden’s Newest Scientist
The forests at the Holden Arboretum are a patchwork of ecosystems — a mosaic of beech, oak, and hemlock stands that shift from one to another in the space of… more
