NREM undergraduate and graduate students, along with Story County Conservation Board technicians participated in the Safety and Woods Worker Training Program which provides sawyers with a hands-on training programs delivered by certified chainsaw safety trainers.  Level One included sessions on body mechanics, personal protective equipment, necessary tools, saws, tree felling, and limbing, bucking, and topping.  Level two of the training included maintenance, hands-on filing, carburetor adjustment, limbing techniques, precision felling assessment, and precision at the stump, including notching, hinge, species differences and terrain.    

Congratulations to all the NREM students who completed their National Wildfire Coordinating Group Wildland Fire Chainsaws (S-212) course!   Everyone did a great job representing NREM and enduring the training under inhospitable conditions.

Congratulations to all the NREM students who completed their National Wildfire Coordinating Group Wildland Fire Chainsaws (S-212) course!   Everyone did a great job representing NREM and enduring the training under inhospitable conditions.

Tim Stewart and Jan Thompson were invited by CELT to present a poster on their Miller awarded project for visitors from the American Association of Universities (AAU) that was focused on advancing STEM education.  The visitors from the AAU were: Toby Smith, Vice President for Policy and Jessica Sebeok, Deputy Vice President for Federal Relations and Counsel for Policy.

Tim Stewart and Jan Thompson were invited by CELT to present a poster on their Miller awarded project for visitors from the American Association of Universities (AAU) that was focused on advancing STEM education.  The visitors from the AAU were: Toby Smith, Vice President for Policy and Jessica Sebeok, Deputy Vice President for Federal Relations and Counsel for Policy.

Lucas Goodman and Thomas Hansen will be presenting their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). The conference will be held at the University of Central Oklahoma on April 4-7.

Goodman is an animal ecology major from Montezuma. His topic is "Effects of Flowering Plant Species Richness on Arthropod Order Richness in Grassland Ecosystems."

Hansen is also an animal ecology major from Ames and will be presenting his research titled, "Effect of Cull Tags on Stress Levels of Largemouth Bass."

For more information about the conference and all ISU students who will be attending, please visit this link: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/03/28/ncur-undergraduate-research

Lucas Goodman and Thomas Hansen will be presenting their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). The conference will be held at the University of Central Oklahoma on April 4-7.

Goodman is an animal ecology major from Montezuma. His topic is "Effects of Flowering Plant Species Richness on Arthropod Order Richness in Grassland Ecosystems."

Hansen is also an animal ecology major from Ames and will be presenting his research titled, "Effect of Cull Tags on Stress Levels of Largemouth Bass."

For more information about the conference and all ISU students who will be attending, please visit this link: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/03/28/ncur-undergraduate-research

Lucas Goodman and Thomas Hansen will be presenting their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). The conference will be held at the University of Central Oklahoma on April 4-7.

Goodman is an animal ecology major from Montezuma. His topic is "Effects of Flowering Plant Species Richness on Arthropod Order Richness in Grassland Ecosystems."

Hansen is also an animal ecology major from Ames and will be presenting his research titled, "Effect of Cull Tags on Stress Levels of Largemouth Bass."

For more information about the conference and all ISU students who will be attending, please visit this link: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/03/28/ncur-undergraduate-research

Nevada, Iowa – Dick Van Deusen, a rural home and woodland owner, will be welcoming 250 Nevada,
Iowa students in Central Elementary’s multiage program to his land on March 28 th and April 4 th to learn
about managing natural resources. It is a private event, but members of the media are invited to attend.

For more than 35 years, Dick has owned a home that overlooks Squaw Creek. Changes in vegetation,
stream straightening, crop field tile drainage, and rainfall have resulted in critical soil erosion. Along with
neighbor Dave Hughes, Dick contacted Luke Gran, owner of Prudenterra, a local ecosystem restoration
business, to make a plan to better protect his home and their land from the cutting erosion taking place
along Squaw Creek.

Nevada, Iowa – Dick Van Deusen, a rural home and woodland owner, will be welcoming 250 Nevada,
Iowa students in Central Elementary’s multiage program to his land on March 28 th and April 4 th to learn
about managing natural resources. It is a private event, but members of the media are invited to attend.

For more than 35 years, Dick has owned a home that overlooks Squaw Creek. Changes in vegetation,
stream straightening, crop field tile drainage, and rainfall have resulted in critical soil erosion. Along with
neighbor Dave Hughes, Dick contacted Luke Gran, owner of Prudenterra, a local ecosystem restoration
business, to make a plan to better protect his home and their land from the cutting erosion taking place
along Squaw Creek.

Nevada, Iowa – Dick Van Deusen, a rural home and woodland owner, will be welcoming 250 Nevada,
Iowa students in Central Elementary’s multiage program to his land on March 28 th and April 4 th to learn
about managing natural resources. It is a private event, but members of the media are invited to attend.

For more than 35 years, Dick has owned a home that overlooks Squaw Creek. Changes in vegetation,
stream straightening, crop field tile drainage, and rainfall have resulted in critical soil erosion. Along with
neighbor Dave Hughes, Dick contacted Luke Gran, owner of Prudenterra, a local ecosystem restoration
business, to make a plan to better protect his home and their land from the cutting erosion taking place
along Squaw Creek.

Ann Russell has developed an app, a game-like educational tool about carbon cycling in a tropical rainforest. The target group is the general public and grades 5-12. (2015). Available as an app, ‘The Rainforest Game,’ for Androids; also at: https://www.nrem.iastate.edu/ECOS/node/20   Also within this link, there is a related web-based product that offers an interactive simulation model of carbon cycling in a tropical rainforest.

Ann Russell has developed an app, a game-like educational tool about carbon cycling in a tropical rainforest. The target group is the general public and grades 5-12. (2015). Available as an app, ‘The Rainforest Game,’ for Androids; also at: https://www.nrem.iastate.edu/ECOS/node/20   Also within this link, there is a related web-based product that offers an interactive simulation model of carbon cycling in a tropical rainforest.