• Volume 5, No. 1 •

Roy and Ralph Brown of Orange Heights, Fla., were practicing agroforestry before it had that name. Today the farm is an example of successful agroforestry practices. 

A CSTAF-sponsored research project to study environmental benefits of agroforestry is showing promising results for the use of silvopasture to absorb nutrients that otherwise could contaminate groundwater, and to sequester carbon. 

Virgin Islands Research Presented at Food Crops Society Meeting

Sarah Workman attended the meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society to present work she and CSTAF colleagues have undertaken on St. Croix. She presented the paper “Methods, Scale and Systems Thinking: Working with Stakeholders in Reforestation and Biodiversity Conservation on St. Croix, USVI.”

Undergraduate students completed the School of Forest Resources and Conservation's first Web-based distance education course, Agroforestry for the Southeastern U.S. in the spring. Seven students completed the course, FOR 3855, developed and taught by CSTAF Assistant Director Michael Bannister.

• CSTAF Scientists Participate in International Union of Forest Research Organizations Congress

• CSTAF Produces Collection of Published Works