This was the first major project that I led at Dogwood Alliance. Using research provided by Key-Log Economics, we constructed a story about the ecosystem services value of wetland forests (swamps, bottomland hardwoods, etc.). This was a powerful report and got a lot of media attention at the time of publication. Stats from this report […]

This was part two of NOLA's feature on wetland forests that came out of our ecosystem services report. Sara was such a cool reporter, and I loved the quotes she chose from our interview. Favorite Quotes Wetland forests encompass any forest that is submerged for part of the year. Louisiana has 5.2 million acres of […]

I was so honored when we got picked up by the NOLA.com Editorial Board for our publication on Ecosystem Services in swamps. NOLA.com has huge readership, and the editorial did end up getting reposted in a few different places, too. It features quotes, stats, and information that ties our report into other groundbreaking and current […]

This second blog from Ha Do features another spin on the importance of wetland forests as an ecosystem service. This one struck a chord with audiences, as it still has pretty great search engine traction nearly three years later. Ha Do, a Vietnamese student from Duke University, was one of two remote interns/fellows in 2020. […]