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Lee E. Frelich is the
founder and Director of the University of Minnesota Center
for Hardwood Ecology, St.Paul, and Senior Member of the
Graduate Faculty, in the Forestry, Ecology and Conservation
Biology programs. He has served on committees of 30 graduate
students, has advised 10 M.S. and Ph.D. students, and teaches
a course on the ecology of fires and other forest disturbance.
His Ph.D. dissertation
on natural disturbances in hemlock-hardwood forests of Michigan's
Upper Peninsula was completed in 1986 at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison with Craig Lorimer. That was followed
by a three-year postdoc in Paleoecology with Margaret Davis
at the University of Minnesota.
Current research interests
include impact of fire and wind on forests of the BWCAW,
effects of invasion by exotic earthworms in forests, and
regional patterns of tree height in old growth and second
growth forests in the eastern U.S.
Frelich is the author
of 50 scientific publications on natural disturbance, forest
succession, landscape ecology, tree population dynamics,
and old growth forests, and is listed among the top 1% of
scientists in the world by the Institute for Scientific
Information Science Citation Index, in the Ecology and Environment
category. He is the author of six book chapters and one
book, "Forest dynamics and disturbance regimes,"
Cambridge University Press, 2002. Frelich and graduate students
have appeared more than 60 times in the news media and have
discussed forest management issues in such venues as the
New York Times, public radio and TV, magazines
such as Newsweek and many local newspapers and
radio stations throughout the U.S.
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Lee Frelich and giant
American basswood. Porcupine Mountains, Michigan.
Photo by Paul Jost.
University of Minnesota
Department of Forest Resources
115 Green Hall
1530 Cleveland Avenue N.
St. Paul, MN 55108
(612) 624-3671
E-mail: freli001@umn.edu
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