Dr. Bud Mayfield takes a long look at a pocket of dense hemlock regeneration at DuPont State Forest. Bud is Project Leader of the Insects, Diseases, and Invasive Plants of Southern Forests Research Work Unit. The existence of hemlock seedlings and saplings in the understory is a hopeful sign for a tree species being steadily killed off by the infamous hemlock woolly adelgid. Read more about restoration efforts here.
