Post Tagged with: "Shelby Kihm"

A&S and Wayne National Forest Continue Successful Internship Collaboration

2018 Interns, OHIO Faculty, and Wayne National Forest staff.

by Kristin Distel Ten Ohio University students from Anthropology, Environmental & Plant Biology, and Biological Sciences interned with the Wayne National Forest in summer 2018, marking trails, searching for rare species and habitats, and helping the forest staff prepare for upcoming projects. The partnership between Ohio University’s College of Arts […]

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December 14, 2018 at 2:25 pmNews

Working on the Wayne | Pollination Station

Zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus) on butterfly weed

By Shelby Kihm Field Ecology major interning at the Wayne National Forest Hello everyone, botany intern back at it again. As we all may know the milkweed plant is very important for the cycle of the monarch caterpillar. The caterpillars will only eat milkweed plants (Asclepias sp.), and the butterflies […]

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August 19, 2018 at 3:36 pmNews

Working on the Wayne | Diminishing Butternut Trees

Working on the Wayne | Diminishing Butternut Trees

By Shelby Kihm Field Ecology major interning at the Wayne National Forest Hello Everyone, Have you ever been roaming the woods? Finding yourself facing a tree that could be on the verge of being totally wiped out? I’m sure you could name a couple, like the Ash tree (Fraxinus americana) […]

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June 26, 2018 at 7:27 pmNews