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2025/2026 Release Schedule

Please note that content releases will be available at 11 a.m. ET on their release date.



DATETITLE
1/3/2025Protecting Rare and At-Risk Species: Tools to Collect Meaningful Data with Limited Resources
1/10/2025Project Budburst
1/17/2025County Natural Heritage Inventories as Planning Tools for Natural Areas Protection
1/24/2025Join the Crowd: Standardized Monitoring Protocols for Prairie and Savanna
1/31/2025Everyone on the Same Page: The Prairie Reconstruction Initiative Monitoring Protocol
2/7/2025Collaborative Approaches to Conservation - Stewards Circle
2/14/2025Indian Country 101: A Learning Opportunity for the Rest of Us
2/21/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Forestry & Fire Management at Santa Clara
2/21/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: The Objectives of the Field Workshop
2/28/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Fire Ecology in a Changing Climate
3/7/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Low-tech Ecological Process-based Restoration in Headwater Streams of Northern New Mexico
3/14/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Engineering With Nature
3/21/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Geomorphologic Changes Following Wildfire: Santa Clara Creek, NM
3/28/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Post-Wildfire Watershed Sediment Analysis and Design Planning Using WARSSS
4/4/2025A Tribe's Nature-Based Approach to Watershed Restoration: Burned Area Watershed Restoration at Santa Clara Pueblo
4/11/2025Communicating the Importance of Our Work
4/18/2025Reminding Ourselves and Others Why We're Doing This
4/25/2025An Overview of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network
5/2/2025Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners
5/9/2025A Horizon of Opportunity: Preparing for Collaboration as Sustainability Initiatives Take Root
5/16/2025Unearthing Old Fields' Potentials: Biodiversity, Carbon Capture, and Stability
5/23/2025Hidden in Plain Site: Long Term Research Reveals 20 Million Acres of US Midwest Croplands Ripe for Biodiversity Conservation
5/30/2025Ecohydrological Consequences of Woody Plant Encroachment in Tallgrass Prairie
6/6/2025Rugged Terrain Shapes Alpine Responses to Climate Change: Long-term Trends and Experimental Insights from the Niwot Ridge LTER
6/13/2025Forest Restoration
6/20/2025New Interests in Old Forests
6/27/2025Case Studies in Nature-Based Approaches to Restore Watersheds
7/4/2025Process-Based Stream Recovery Strategies
7/11/2025Miller, Sequatchie Cave Riparian Restoration in Tennessee
7/18/2025Trout Restoration | Virginia Outdoors Foundation
7/25/2025Exploring the Role of Plant Biodiversity in Prairie Restoration
8/1/2025Beavers as a Restoration Tool
8/8/2025Ethnobotany and the Engagement of People in Prairie Restoration and Conservation
8/15/2025Long-Term Research to Support Prairie Conservation in a Changing World
8/22/2025Long-Term Studies of Restored Prairie Offer Insights into Achieving Conservation Goals
8/29/2025Nature's Front Line: Opening Remarks: Natural Areas In The 21st Century
9/5/2025Nature's Front Line: Making the Case for the Role of Natural Areas in Climate Resilience: Learning Together
9/12/2025Nature's Front Line: Radical Resilience and Wild Carbon
9/19/2025Nature's Front Line: Conservation of Forest Carbon as Climate Protection: Assessing Opportunities and Limitations
9/26/2025Nature's Front Line: Fire through Space and Time on Appalachian Landscapes and Implications for Vegetation Change
10/3/2025Nature's Front Line: Panel Discussion Part #1
10/10/2025Nature's Front Line: Panel Discussion Part #2
10/17/2025What's That Smell? How Detection Dogs Can Lend a Paw in Conservation Programs
10/24/2025Evaluating Native Seed Mixes for Post-Fire Seeding in the Great Basin 
10/31/2025Seed Sourcing Strategies Under Climate Change - A Review of the Current Literature
11/7/2025Development and Use of Native Seed in Natural Areas Management
11/14/2025Linkages Between LTER Research and Land/Water Management Along Alaska's Northern-Most Coastline
11/21/2025Restoring the Florida Coastal Everglades: Insights from Long-term Ecological Research and Management
11/28/2025Will Marshes Keep Up with Sea-level Rise?
12/5/2025Long-Term Impacts of Seagrass and Oyster Restoration on Ecosystem Services Along Coastal Virginia
12/12/2025Managing Fire Regimes in a Changing World
12/19/2025Restoring Relationships and Beneficial Fire to Great Lakes Forests
12/26/2025Life from the Ashes: Exploring the Impact of Prescribed Fire & Natural Fire on Insects and Other Invertebrates


1/2/2026Predicting the Resistance of Plant-Pollinator Assemblages to Fire
1/9/2026The Response of Bumble Bees and their Floral Food Sources to Wildfire in California
1/16/2026The Impact of Prescribed Burning on Native Bee Communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Longleaf Pine Savannas in the North Carolina Sandhills
1/23/2026Prescribed Fire Effects on Rangeland Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae) in the Southern Great Plains
1/30/2026Ant Community, Diversity, and Seed Interactions in Longleaf Pine Forest Managed with Frequent Fire
2/6/2026Using Prescribed Fire and Grazing to Manage for Biodiversity in the Great Plains
2/13/2026Short and Long-term Perspectives of Forest Management Effects on Stream Biota
2/20/2026Shrinking Sizes of Unexploited Fish and Salamanders Over the Past 60 Years
2/27/2026On the impacts of multiple disturbances on the resiliency of tropical freshwater food webs and ecosystem services in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
3/6/2026Taking a Long Look at Lakes: Perspectives from the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research Program
3/13/2026Nature out of Place? Presented by Mason Heberling and Rachel Reeb
3/20/2026Invasive Species Management - Stewards Circle
3/27/2026Integrating Climate Change into Invasive Plant Policy and Management
4/3/2026Invasives Free USA, a Long-Term Approach to Managing Invasive Species
4/10/2026Collaborations that are Moving the Needle on Rare Butterfly Conservation
4/17/2026Research & management of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid: The ongoing effort to save hemlock forests in the eastern US & Canada
4/24/2026Changing Disturbances, Ecological Legacies, and the Future of the Alaskan Boreal Forest
5/1/2026Long-term forest carbon dynamics: How site scale research informs regional climate mitigation policy
5/8/2026Forests Don't Read Scientific Papers: Surprising Results from Long-term Ecological Research in Northern Hardwood Forests
5/15/2026Technology in Natural Areas Conservation - Stewards Circle
5/22/2026The Map of Biodiversity Importance: Enhancing Local Conservation Strategies
5/29/2026US National (& International) Vegetation Classification: Hierarchy 3.0, alignment with IUCN
6/5/2026Urban Ecological Infrastructure and Human-Environment Interactions in the Sonoran Desert
6/12/2026Connectivity and Feedbacks Driving Vegetation Change in Drylands
6/19/2026Climate variability at dryland ecotones - how will increasing variance influence ecosystems?
6/26/2026Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe & US Forest Service Memorandum of Understanding
7/3/2026Leech Lake Snowshoe Hare Habitat Project
7/10/2026An Ecological Model for Fire Reintroduction in an Old Growth Red Pine Woodland
7/17/2026Dibaginjigaadeg Anishinaabe Ezhitwaad - A Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu
7/24/2026A Natural Model for Red Pine Plantation Silviculture
7/31/2026Shared Stewardship: Closing Thoughts & Discussion
8/7/2026Shared Stewardship: Collaborating to Effectively Co-Manage the Chippewa National Forest



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