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May 2, 2025

Bald Head Island’s Abundant Deer Spur Management Talks

Coastal Review
Chris DePerno, a North Carolina State University professor and wildlife biologist whose expertise includes population ecology and management, works with local governments in other states that manage deer populations each year through culling.

Apr 25, 2025

Ghost Forests Are Growing As Sea Levels Rise

Live Science
As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning.

Apr 15, 2025

Experts Call Preparation Key to Coping With Spring Allergies in SC

Public News Service
Robert Bardon, professor of forestry at North Carolina State University, said pollen comes in multiple waves as the region's flora blooms with the change of season.

Apr 8, 2025

When Can You Wash Your Car? Here’s How Bad NC’s Pollen Has Been + When It Will End

The News & Observer
Robert Bardon, associate dean for extension and a professor at NC State University’s College of Natural Resources, has developed a mathematical formula to simplify the complicated courtship of the loblolly pine and its cousins that results in the ubiquitous yellow film now clinging to your porch furniture.

Apr 7, 2025

Science of Spring Pollen is Explained

Wilkes Journal-Patriot
Robert Bardon, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at NC State, has been tracking tree pollen production in Raleigh and the surrounding area for nearly a decade.

Apr 3, 2025

No Stranger To Wildfires, A Helene-Ravaged WNC Now Faces A Complicated Future Battling Them

The Asheville Citizen-Times
“People like to start fires,” said Robert Scheller, a professor at North Carolina State University’s Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. “We’re really good at that.”

Apr 2, 2025

Ask the Meteorologist: Is the Yellow ‘Pollening’ Really Behind Your Allergies?

WRAL
According to experts at North Carolina State University, that same yellow pine pollen that has coated almost everything recently is too large of a grain to be allergenic.

Apr 2, 2025

Why the Southeast Has Become More Of A Wildfire Hotspot

WUNC
Due South's Jeff Tiberii talks with Robert Scheller, professor of landscape ecology in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, about why wildfires are becoming more common in our state and the Southeast — and what the future might hold.

Mar 30, 2025

5 Innovative Ways Sports Organizations Are Tackling Waste

Forbes
“I see sports as a highly effective platform to promote waste reduction, reuse, and recovery efforts,” said Jonathan Casper, associate professor and sport management program coordinator at North Carolina State University.

Mar 30, 2025

Why Scientists Are Worried About Weasels

Morning AgClips
“We’re a little worried about the weasels,” said Roland Kays, a research professor at North Carolina State University.