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The Southern Research Station (SRS) conducts forestry research in 13 Southeastern and Midsouth States:
  • Alabama
    • Auburn, AL
  • Arkansas
    • Monticello, AR
  • Florida
    • Gainesville, FL
  • Georgia
    • Athens, GA
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
    • New Orleans, LA
    • Pineville, LA
  • Mississippi
    • Saucier, MS
    • Starkville, MS
    • Stoneville, MS
  • Nebraska
    • Lincoln
  • North Carolina
    • Asheville, NC
    • RTP, NC
    • Raleigh, NC
    • Coweeta, NC
  • Oklahoma
  • South Carolina
    • Charleston, SC
    • Clemson, SC
  • Tennessee
    • Knoxville, TN
  • Texas
    • Nacogdoches, TX
  • Virginia
    • Blacksburg, VA
In Kentucky and Oklahoma - where there are no SRS facilities - the SRS inventories forest resources and shares data and research findings with State natural resource agencies.

To learn more about SRS Research Work Units, click on a title from the following list, or visit our Research Work Unit Description page.

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Research Units

Location Unit # Name Description Staff
Asheville, NC HQ Station Headquarters - Asheville, NC
Unit Staff
Asheville, NC 4157 Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management Description N/A Unit Staff
Asheville, NC 4854 Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center Description N/A Unit Staff
    Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center    
    Forest Health Monitoring    
    Southern Global Change Program    
Athens, GA 4156 Center for Forest Disturbance Science Description N/A Unit Staff
Athens, GA 4953 Greatest Good for the 21st Century: A Program for Pioneering Research on Changing Forest Values in the South and Nation Description N/A Unit Staff
Auburn, AL 4158 Restoring Longleaf Pine Ecosystems Description N/A Unit Staff
    Vegetation Management Research and Longleaf Pine Research for Southern Forest Ecosystems    
    Ecology and Management of Even-aged Southern Pine Forests    
Auburn, AL 4703 Forest Operations Research to Achieve Sustainable Management Description N/A Unit Staff
Coweeta, NC 4353 Forest Watershed Science Description N/A Unit Staff
    Evaluation of Watershed Ecosystem Responses to Natural, Management, and Other Human Disturbances of Southeastern Forests    
    Center for Forested Wetlands Research    
    Coldwater Streams and Trout Habitat in the Southern Appalachians    
Gainesville, FL 4952 Understanding Changing Social and Natural Systems Description N/A Unit Staff
    Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information    
    Recreation, Wilderness, Urban Forest, and Demographic Trends Research    
Hot Springs, AR 4159 Southern Pine Ecology Description N/A Unit Staff
    Managing Upland Forest Ecosystems in the Midsouth    
    Integrated Management of Wildlife Habitat and Timber Resources    
Knoxville, TN 4801 Forest Inventory and Analysis Description N/A Unit Staff
Lincoln, NE 4352 National Agroforestry Center - Research Description N/A Unit Staff
Pineville, LA 4552 Insects, Diseases, and Invasive Plants Description N/A Unit Staff
    Bark Beetles and Invasive Insects    
    Wood Products Insect Research    
    Insects and Diseases of Southern Forests    
Pineville, LA 4704 Utilization of Southern Forest Resources Description N/A Unit Staff
    Utilization of Southern Forest Resources    
    Forest Products Conservation    
Research Triangle Park, NC 4804 Forest Economics and Policy Description N/A Unit Staff
    Economics of Forest Protection and Management    
    Evaluation of Legal, Tax, and Economic Influences on Forest Resource Management    
Saucier, MS 4160 Forest Genetics & Biological Foundations Description N/A Unit Staff
    Southern Institute of Forest Genetics    
    Biological Foundations of Southern Forest Productivity and Sustainability    
Stoneville, MS 4155 Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research Description N/A Unit Staff