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LEE E. FRELICH

University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources

1530 N. Cleveland Avenue, St.Paul, MN 55108

612-624-3671 office, 330F Green Hall; cell, 612-991-1359

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RvczqdIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

E-mail: freli001@umn.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Madison—Ph. D., Forestry, 1986

Specialty - Forest Ecology; Minor - Applied Statistics; Adviser - Craig Lorimer

University of Wisconsin-Madison—B.S., Bacteriology, 1980; Botany, 1979

Post-doctoral positions in Forest Soils/Acid Rain with James Bockheim (Univ. WI, 1987-1988),

and in Paleoecology with Margaret B. Davis (University of Minnesota, 1988-1992).

CURRENT POSITIONS

Director, The University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, 2000 to date

Research Associate/ Researcher 6, University of Minnesota Dept. Forest Resources, 1992 to date.

Fellow, Institute on the Environment, 2016 to date

Senior member of the Graduate Faculty in: (1) Conservation Science; (2) Natural Resource

Science and Management, 1997 to date.

HIGHLIGHTS

179 publications, 100 in peer-reviewed journals.

H index 40 Web of Science (5266 citations), 52 Google Scholar (9200 total citations)

Publications appear in 47 peer-reviewed journals, with 247 coauthors from 23 countries

Peer-reviewer of 414 articles for 100 peer-reviewed journals

Expertise in forest ecology: forest fires and windstorms, climate change, large herbivores

(deer), invasive plants and invasive earthworms in temperate and boreal forests

Single-author book at Cambridge University Press ‘Forest dynamics and disturbance

regimes’(2002), and two Oxford Bibliographies ‘Boreal forests 2017)’ and ‘Temperate

Coniferous forests (2016)’ at Oxford University Press.

Essential Science Indicators, listed among top 1% of all scientists in the world, Thompson

Reuters Web of Science, Ecology and Environment Category, 2014-2019

Co-discoverer, with Jiri Schlaghamersky, of nine species of Enchytraied worms new to

science in forests of northern Wisconsin and Minnesota

Program Chair, Ecological Society of America, 101st annual meeting (2016)

497 media appearances in 121 news media outlets, including The New York Times,

Newsweek, CBS radio Osgood Files, National Public Radio, and National Geographic

619 professional and public presentations on boreal and temperate forests, biodiversity,

climate change, forest fires, windstorms, and earthworms and other invasive species

89 graduate students advised (25 as adviser/coadviser and 64 committee assignments)

$6.70 million in research support, including major grants from National Science Foundation,

National Park Service and Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center (MITPPC).

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Boreal forest (Jack pine, spruce, fir, white and red pine)

Temperate forests (oak, maple and hemlock)

Disturbance ecology, including fire and wind and legacies

Stand history reconstruction

Ecosystem management in forests

Invasive species (European earthworm) impacts in forests

Ungulate herbivory (deer and moose) in forests

Modeling of growth and dynamics of vegetation and landscapes

Neighborhood effects and species coexistence in plant communities

Old growth forest and natural area evaluation, restoration and management

Paleoecology and long-term dynamics of vegetation

Urban forestry

Global warming impacts in forests

CURRENT PROJECTS AND SCIENCE NETWORKS

Exotic earthworm invasion in forests (with P. Reich, K. Yoo).

Boreal forest response to large-scale wind, fire and wind-fire combinations in the

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (with P. Reich, R. Rich, E. Anoszko, S. Reed).

Tree growth form and tree height patterns across species ranges in Eastern North

America. (With Bob Leverett, Will Blozan, and other Eastern Native Tree Society

members).

Long-term dynamics of hemlock and maple forests in Sylvania Wilderness, MI (with

M.B. Davis, S. Sugita, R. Montgomery).

Climate change, including multiple feedbacks from disturbance, herbivory, and invasive

species in temperate and boreal forests (With P. Reich, N. Fisichelli, D. Chaffin).

Future biome predictions for the Western Great Lakes Region (with P. Reich, E. Butler,

R. Toot).

Boreal refugia and climate change project (with D. Stralberg, S. Nielsen, and 25 other

scientists from the U.S. and Canada.

Biodiversity in a rapidly changing, fragmented environment (with P. Reich, R.

Montgomery).

Natural Disturbance Dynamics Analysis for Forest Ecosystem Management

(FORDISMAN), at Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia, with K. Jogiste,

J. Stanturf and others.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

Twenty-one graduate students completed and 4 in progress (14 Ph.D. and 11 M.S., including 2

Native American students and 1 African student); 59 other graduate student committee

assignments completed (34 Ph.D.) and 5 in progress (4 Ph.D.), including students in 9 graduate

programs (Natural Resource Science and Management, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior,

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Conservation Biology, Geography, Plant Biology, Soil, Water and Climate, Landscape

Architecture, Entomology, and History), and students at University of Quebec at Montreal, York

University (Toronto), and Estonian University of Life Sceinces, (Tartu, Estonia). Former students

include the Director of Conservation Science for The Nature Conservancy Minnesota (Meredith

Cornett), Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service Upper Midwest (Scott

Weyenberg), Regional Forester for The Bureau of Indian Affairs Midwest Regional Office

(Michael Benedict), Research Ecologist with the Agricultural Research Service at Fort Collins

(David Augustine), Senior Policy Analyst with the MN Department of Natural Resources (Andy

Holdsworth), Director of the Boreal Conservation Program for TNC (2016-2019) and now

Director of Sustinability for Kimberly-Clark (David Chaffin), Data Analyst for Apple Computer,

Facebook and Netflix (Chaina Bapikee (Wade)), Restoration Ecologist for Friends of the

Mississipi (Alex Roth), Researcher at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (Roy

Rich), Forest Ecology Director at the Schoodic Institute, Acadia National Park (Nick Fisichelli),

and faculty at The University of Wisconsin-Superior (Nick Danz), SUNY Syracuse (Julia Burton

and Martin Dovciak), and Penn State (Jeri Peck).

Graduate Student Advising/Coadvising completed, with thesis titles:

Chaffin, David, Ph.D., Natural Resource Science and Management (NRSM), 2011-2019.

Thesis: Climate change and future forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area

Wilderness: a landscape-scale assessment of temperate tree abundance, earthworm

invasion and understory regeneration trends.

Toot, Ryan, M.S., NRSM, 2017-2018. Thesis: Analysis of future climate-biome envelopes and

bur oak succession potential of the Western Great Lake States.

Anoszko, Elias, Ph.D., (NRSM, with P. Reich), 2010-2017. Thesis: Impacts of multiple fires and

wind disturbance on forest community composition, succession and diversity in the

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Roth, Alexander, Ph.D., (NRSM), and NSF IGERT invasive species, with P.Reich), 2010-2015.

Thesis: Common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), European earthworms, and ecosystem

management: Invasion and restoration in Minnesota’s deciduous forests.

Ojanen, Paul, M.S., (NRSM), 2007-2014. Thesis: A study of herbaceous vegetation in

Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest: Relationship of earthworms, white-tailed deer

browsing and Carex Pensulvanica Lam.

Bapikee, Chaïna. Ph.D. NRSM, 2008-2013. Thesis: Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) forest

community dynamics across an environmental gradient from the prairie-forest border to

interior forest biome.

Salk, Ted. M.S., NRSM (with R. Montgomery), 2005-2013. Thesis: Poor Recruitment is

Changing the Structure and Species Composition of an Old-Growth Hemlock–Hardwood

Forest.

Fisichelli, Nicholas. Ph.D. NRSM (with P. Reich). 2007-2012. Thesis: Tree regeneration

dynamics and drivers across the temperate-boreal transition zone.

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Dieser, Peter. M.S, NRSM (with A. Ek), 2009-2011. Plan B paper: Analysis of the Cloquet

Forestry Center Wildlife Species Habitat Suitability Index from 1959-2000 using Wildlife

Habitat indicator for Native Genera and Species (WHINGS) Database Query Model.

Danz, Nick. Ph.D. NRSM (with P. Reich), 2005-2009. Thesis: Spatial vegetation-environment

relationships and distributional changes in the presettlement Minnesota prairie-forest

boundary.

Peck, Jeri. Ph.D. NRSM (with Alan Ek), 2005-2007. Thesis: Toward the sustainable

management of commercially harvestable epiphytic bryophytes.

Holdsworth, Andy. Ph.D. Conservation Biology (with P. Reich), 2000-2006. Thesis: Ecological

consequences and conservation implications of non-native invasive earthworms in

northern hardwood forests.

Rich, Roy. Ph.D., Forestry (with P. Reich), 1999-2006. Thesis: Large wind disturbance in the

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: Forest dynamics and development changes

associated with the Jult 4th, 1999 blowdown.

Burton, Julia. M.S. Forestry (with Eric Zenner), 2002-2004. Thesis: A comparison of primary

old-growth and second-growth northern hardwood forests on the North Shore of Lake

Superior, Minnesota, USA.

Mehta, Smita. M.S. Conservation Biology (with A. Starfield), 2000- 2003. Thesis: A sensitivity

analysis and application of LANDIS on the Nashwauk Uplands.

Hale, Cindy. Ph.D., Forest Ecology (with P. Reich), 1998-2003. Thesis: European earthworm

invasion dynamics of hardwood forest understory communities.

Dovciak, Martin. Ph.D. Forest Ecology (with P Reich), 1995-2001. Thesis: Spatial patterns of

white pine regeneration in relation to seed rain, safe sites, competing vegetation and

resources.

Weyenberg, Scott. M.S. Forest Ecology (with P. Reich), 1998-2001. Thesis: A story of white

pine regeneration as influenced by seed source strength and disturbance history in

northeastern Minnesota.

Benedict, Michael. M.S. Forestry 1998-2001. Thesis: Black ash: its use by Native Americans,

site factors affecting seedling abundance and ring growth in northern Minnesota.

Cornett, Meredith. Ph.D. Forest Ecology (with P. Reich and K. Puettmann) 1993-2000. Thesis:

Ecological restoration of upland white cedar forests on the Lake Superior Highlands.

Augustine, David. M.S. Wildlife Ecology (with P.Jordan), 1994-1997. Thesis: Grazing patterns

and impacts of white-tailed deer in a fragmented forest ecosystem.

Graduate Student Advising/Coadvising in Progress:

Louis Goodall, M.S., NRSM, 2019-

Samuel Reed, Ph.D., NRSM (With P. Reich), 2017-

Kristi Nigul, Ph.D., Estonian University of Life Sciences (with A. Kangur), 2011-

Terry Serres, M.S., NRSM (with P. Reich), 2006-

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Other Graduate Student Committee Assignments Completed:

Lori Knosalla, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2017-2019

John Berini, Ph.D. Conservation Science, committee, 2012-2019

Annie Hawkinson, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2016-2019

Adrian Wackett, M.S. Soil, Water and Climate, committee, 2016-2018

Liam Martin, M.S. Geography, committee 2017-2018

Spencer Rettler, M.S., NRSM, committee 2015-2018

Matt Hill, M.S. NRSM, committee, 2018

Stephanie Patton, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2016-2017

Eric North, Ph.D. NRSM, committee, 2015-2017

Christopher Looney, Ph.D., NRSM, committee 2015-2017

David Wilson, Ph.D., NRSM, committee, 2014-2016

Mack Glasby, M.S., NRSM, committee 2015-2016

Derek Rosenberger, Ph.D., Entomology, committee, 2013-2016

David Pavlik, M.S., Conservation Biology, committee, 2014-2015

Alexandra Lodge, Ph.D., NRSM, committee, 2012-2015

Andrew Pretorious, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2013-2015

Lorelle Berkeley, Ph.D. NRSM, Committee, 2007-2014

Carrie Pike, Ph.D., NRSM, exam committee, 2013

Lane Johnson, M.S. Geography, committee 2011-2013

Eric Henderson, Ph.D. NRSM, Committee, 2006-2013

Kerrie Sendall, Ph.D., Plant Biology, Committee, 2008-2012

Scott Loss, Ph.D. NRSM, Committee, 2008-2011

Daniel Margoles, M.S., Geography, 2009-2010

Christopher William, Ph.D. Geography, Committee, 2007-2010

Nicholas Bolton, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2009-2010

Angela Hodgson, Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Committee, 2009-2010

Grant Elliott, Ph.D. Geography, Committee, 2006-2009

Evan Larson, Ph.D. Geography, Committee, 2006-2009

Tor Janson, M.S., Landscape Architecture, Committee, 2009

Kate Skelton, M.S., Landscape Architecture, committee, 2008-2009

John Wing, Ph.D. History, committee, 2007-2009

Nathan DeJager, Ph.D. Ecology Evolution and Behavior, Committee, 2006-2008

Kris Johnson, Ph.D. NRSM, Committee, 2006-2009

Andrew Jenks, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2008

Scott Sell, Ph.D. Wildlife Ecology, Committee 1998-2007

Anne-Marie Hoskinson, Ph.D. Conservation Biology, committee, 2001-2006

Mark Seamans, Ph.D. Wildlife Ecology, committee, 2002-2005

Yu Wei, Ph.D. Forestry, Committee, 2001-2004

Amy Harder, M.S. Forestry, Committee, 2002-2004

Saewan Koh, Ph.D. Biology, Outside examiner,York University, Toronto,

Ontario, Canada, 2004

Dave Lytle, Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Committee 1998-2002

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Mike Tobin, Ph.D. Forestry, Committee, final exam, 2001

Steve Friedman, Ph.D. Forestry, Committee, 1995-2001

Kali Sawaya, M.S. Forestry, Committee, 1999-2000

Daren Carlson, M.S. Conservation Biology, Committee 1995-2001

Dan Kneeshaw, Ph.D. Forest Ecology, Outside examiner, University of

Quebec at Montreal 2000

Robyn Flakne, Paleoecology, Ph.D. Committee, 1993-2000

Michael Counte, Forestry, M.S. Committee 1998-2000

Amelia Lu, Forestry, Ph.D. Committee, 1998-1999

José-Luis Machado, Ph.D. Forest Ecology, Committee 1995-1998

Cynthia Lane, Ph.D. Conservation Biology, Committee, final exam, 1999

Timothy Parshall, Ecology, Ph.D. Committee, final exam, 1998

David W. Peterson, Ph.D. Forest Ecology, Committee, 1994-1998

Matt Duvall, M.S. Forest Soils, Committee 1994-1997

Cindy Hale, M.S. Forest Ecology, Committee 1993-1996

Steve Fettig, M.S. Wildlife Ecology, Committee, 1993-1995

Kent Slaughter, M.S. Forest Soils, Committee, 1993-1994

Mark Tjoelker, Ph.D. Tree Physiology, Prelim committee 1993

Mike Walters, Ph.D. Forest Ecology, Committee, final exam 1993

Other Graduate Student Committee Assignments in Progress

Michael Carson, Ph.D., NRSM, 2017-

Baishalia Bakshi, Ph.D.,NRSM, Committee, 2016-

Daniel Wattenhofer, M.S., NRSM, committee, 2019-

Claudia Naninga, Ph.D., NRSM, committee, 2016-

Elizabeth Schneider, Ph.D., Geography, committee, 2015-

Undergraduate research

Approximately 50 undergraduate students employed over the last 15 years as field and lab

assistants on graduate student and other research projects, in addition to University of Minnesota

undergraduate research (UROP), and NSF REU and IGERT interns listed below.

Leah Prudent (Global Studies Senior Project on earthworms), 2017

Sabrina Shrader (NSF IGERT Summer Intern), 2009

Leah Rathbun (UROP), 2003

Rachel Nash (NSF REU), 2003

Erica Johnson (UROP), 1998

Courses, and continuing education webinars/workshops taught

2009 to date. Teach Landscape Ecology and Management (FNRM 3204/5204), a 3-credit

course for senior undergraduates and graduate students. Introduction to landscape ecology

at different scales in time/space. Roles of broad-scale patterns of ecological phenomena,

human activity and disturbance in landscape formation. Characteristic spatial/temporal

scales of ecological events. Principles of landscape ecology as framework for landscape

research, analysis, conservation, and management.

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2002 to date. Teach Forest Fire and Disturbance Ecology (FNRM 3203/5203), a 3-credit

course for senior undergraduates and graduate students. Ecology, history, management,

control of fire, wind, insect infestation, deer browsing, other disturbances in forests,

including disturbance regimes of boreal, northern hardwood, savannas of North America.

Influence of disturbance on wildlife habitat, urban/wildland interfaces, forest

management, stand/landscape dynamics. Tree mortality in fires, successional patterns

created by fires, interactions of life history traits of plants with disturbances.

2000 to date. Guest lecture in courses at the University of Minnesota and other nearby

universities. Approximately 80 guest lecture presented to date on topics of climate

change, fire and wind in temperate and boreal forests, earthworm invasion, and

conservation and management of natural resources.

2014 to 2018. Teach five classes annually at Jackson Middle School—a specialty school

for math and science—for their 8th grade Capstone Expert Day series of topics. Topic

taught: invasive earthworms in forests.

2017. Aspen and fire in the Lake States, webinar, Lake States Fire Consortium, Jan 19,

available at: http://lakestatesfiresci.net/webinar_01_19_17.html

2016. Oak and fire in Minnesota forests. Sustainable forests education cooperative

webinar, October 25, available at:

http://sfec.cfans.umn.edu/2016-webinar-oak-and-fire-in-minnesota-forests/

1997-2015. Instructor for Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative, Cloquet Forestry

Center, continuing education workshops for forest managers.

Local Lake States Silviculture Module of National Advanced Silviculture

Program (2015); taught units on Fire and Invasive species

The science of climate change and forests

A synthesis of fire and oak forests

Wind and fire workshop

Invasive earthworms in forests

Managing forest stands in changing landscapes

Natural disturbance in Midwestern Forests

Bigwoods conservation and deer

Range of natural variability in Great Lakes Forests

2014. Climate change adaptation in national Parks. Workshop, Voyageurs NP,

International Falls, MN. Attended by 60 managers including National Park, National

Forest and MNDNR staff.

2013. Minnesota Soil and Water Conservation Districts webinar (statewide audience of

MSAWCD staff)

2013. The National Extension Educators Workshop, Cloquet Forestry Center, MN.

2013. Minnesota Climate Change Adaptation Workshop, Science Museum of Minnesota

(very broad audience including many land managers from throughout the state; this also

resulted in coverage in the Minneapolsi Star Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio)

2013. Climate Science Workshop for Teachers, University of Minnesota St.Paul Campus.

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2010-2011, taught the seminar for NSF IGERT Graduate Fellowship students, including a

semester on Communicating with the media and a semester on Interactions between

native species and Genetically Modified Organisms.

1997-1999. Taught Fire Ecology and Management, a 2-credit course during spring quarter

for Natural Resources Senior undergraduates and graduate students.

Instructor for Interagency Fire Management Course for National Park Service and

National Forest Service employees.

1995. Prepare and teach workshop in ecosystem management of forests for Department of

Natural Resources employees, National Forest Service employees and private consultants

in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. (With M.J. Baughman, J. Kotar, C. Locey).

1989 -1991. Lecturer, University of Minnesota Department of Ecology, Evolution and

Behavior. Taught Introduction to Ecology, a four credit course for university juniors and

seniors. Course was taught twice a year to about 35 students each session. Ninety-six

percent of all students who completed evaluations rated overall quality of instructor good

or excellent, and 79% rated the course as one of the top one-fourth among courses taken

at the University of Minnesota.

1990. Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Bell Museum of Natural History. Taught a five-

week course "Ecology of Midwestern Forests" for museum members and the general

public.

VISITORS HOSTED

Hosted eight members of a Canadian delegation for the International Visitor Leadership

Program (U.S. State Department). Discussed science collaboration between U.S. and

Canada. June 14, 2016.

Madhav Thakur, Olga Ferlian, and Ulrich Pruschitzki, post docs working with Nico

Eisenhauer at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), University

of Leipzig, August 2016.

Jiri Schlaghamersky, Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Fulbright

Scholar, September 2010-August 2011.

Kalev Jogiste, Professor, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fulbright Scholar,

September 2010-May 2011, and also short visits during 2014 and 2016 and 2018.

SELECTED CONSULTING

2010-2019. Sequoia Pictures Inc., and Gillen Group, Inc., Science adviser for Hollywood

movie ‘Ark’.

2013-2019. Hart-Howerton (Landscape Architects), Restoration of Minnehaha Creek

Watershed in St.Louis Park, MN, tree selection for the Scholar’s Walk on U of MN East

Bank Campus, and other landscape architecture projects.

2013-2014. U.S. Air Force, Minneapolis, MN. Tree health consultant for the 133rd Wing

air base.

2013. Minnesota Zoo, management of vegetation.

2009. U.S. Army. Evaluation of old-grwoth beech forest at Silver Springs Army Reserve

Facility, Milwaukee, WI.

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2009. Barr Engineering. U.S. Steel Keetac project; Environmental Impact Statement for

biomass energy from logging residue.

2005-2006. Thunderhawk papermill expansion Environmental Impact Statement for

Blandin Paper Company.

2004. Minnesota Historical Society. Assist with design of new exhibit for the Grand

Rapids, MN Forest History Center Museum.

2000-2001. Foster-Wheeler Environmental Consulting, Inc., and USDA Forest Service,

Superior National Forest. Environmental Impact Statement for proposed prescribed

burning to mitigate the potential impact of large fires in the July 4th blowdown within the

BWCAW.

1999. US Forest Service, Superior and Chippewa National Forests, MN. Disturbance and

natural variability of ecosystems in northern Minnesota.

1999. Minnesota Forest Council. Report on natural range of variability in disturbance

regimes for Northern Superior Uplands.

1998. Boise Cascade Corporation (with Westwood Associates). Documentation of

historical natural disturbance regime in northern Minnesota Peatlands Ecological

Section.

1995. USDA Forest Service, Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin. Served on

committee to set up permanent monitoring system to determine future effects of forest

management practices on population dynamics of rare/sensitive species. Developed

silvicultural prescription for restoration of old- growth northern hardwood forests.

1992-1994. Jaakko Pöyry Consulting, Inc., Generic Environmental Impact Statement on

timber harvesting and forest management in Minnesota. One of four authors of the GEIS

that guides forest management in the state of Minnesota through the year 2040.

1993. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Assist in developing procedures for

evaluating quality of old growth northern hardwoods stands.

SELECTED GRANTS AND GIFTS

Total research support to date approximately $6,700,000 from grants as PI, Co-PI, or major

collaborator, and from endowment earnings. Captial campaign endowment money raised to date:

$700,000.

Factors limiting dispersal and establishment of jumping worms (Amynthas spp) in

Minnesota. MITPPC (Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Pest and Plants Center), $299,254,

January 2020-June 2022.

Establishing a global forest Earth network plot at the boreal-temperate ecotone. Peter

Kennedy, PI, and L.E. Frelich and Yuehua Hu, Co PIs. Itasca Biological Station, Seed-to-

Root Grant Program, $75,000, July 2019-June 2021.

Warming by W”o”rming: Significant control of soil temperature by invasive earthworms

and vegetation. Kyungsoo Yoo, PI, and L.E. Frelich and Xue Feng, Co PIs. Itasca

Biological Station, Seed-to-Root Grant Program, $75,000, July 2019-June 2021.

Preserving biodiversity in a fragmented rapidly changing environment. $50,000 gift from

Geri and Darby Nelson to launch the project, July 2017.

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Prescribed burning to improve management for brushland-dependent species. Rebecca

Montgomery, Project Manager, Lee Frelich, Charlotte Roy and Lindsey Shartell,

Collabortors. $267,000, Legislative Citizens Comission on Minnesota Resrouces, July 1,

2015-June 30, 2019.

Cover it up! Using plants control buckthorn. Peter B. Reich PI; Lee E. Frelich, Shawn

Shottler, Paul Bockenstedt, Ann Pierce and Alex Roth, Collaborators. Minnesota Invasive

Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center, $327,000, February 2016-September 2018.

Accelerated Migration of Bur Oak Ecotypes for Climate Resilience, Lee E. Frelich PI.

Part of LCCMR MeCC VIII: Restoration for Climate Resilience, Pollinators, and

Working Lands, grant to Great River Greening, project manager Wiley Buck. $100,000,

July 2015-June 2018.

Climate change adaptation planning for northern forest ecosystems in Great Lakes

National Parks. Ron Moen and Lee Frelich, Co-PIs. U.S. Dept Interior, National Park

Service, $330,000, October 2013-September 2017. Sub-project grants:

Red Lake Indian reservation, MN, $18,000.

Quetico Provincial Park, and Quetico Foundation, Ontario, $17,000.

Successful Biological Control of Soybean Aphid: The Link to Buckthorn. George

Heimpel, project manager, with Lee Frelich, Ian MacRae, Bruce Potter, Joe Kaser and

Jean Ciborowski, collaborators; Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Rapid

Agricultural Response Fund, $99,000, July 2011-June 2013.

Climate change and resilience in boreal forests. Lee E. Frelich, project manager, with

collaborators Peter B. Reich and Rebecca Montgomery, Legislative Citizens Commission

on Minnesota Resources, $150,000, July 2011-June 2013.

A synthesis of fire and oak restoration in the northeastern U.S. David W. Peterson, Lee E.

Frelich and Peter B. Reich, Co-PIs, Joint Fire Science Program, $119,000, July 2010-

December 2012.

Terrestrial Synthesis for Voyageurs National Park. L.E. Frelich, PI. National Park

Service, $39,000 for FY 2009-2012.

Projecting Environmental Trajectories for Energy-Water-Habitat Planning. P.B. Reich,

project manager, Clarence Lehman, Lee Frelich, Mark Seeley, Richard McGehee, Donald

Wyse, and Jeanine Cavender-Bares, collaborators. Legislative Citizens Commission on

Minnesota Resources (LCCMR), $194,000, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2011.

An integrated initiative on climate change in northern forests. P.B. Reich, PI, R.

Montgomery, J. Oleksyn, J. Bradford, B. Palik, T. Lee and L. Frelich, collaborators.

$200,000, College of Food, Agricuture, and Natural Resource Science, July 2007-June

2009.

Research assessment for the development of principles for the removal of woody biomass

from forests and brushland, Lee. E Frelich and Dean Current, Co-PIs. University of

Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment, $191,572, September

2005-October 2006.

Minnesota Worm Watch, Lee E. Frelich, PI, with Cindy Hale and Ken Gilbertson, Co-

PIs. National Science Foundation, $75,000, September 2005-December 2007.

Spatial analysis of northern Minnesota landscapes. Lee E. Frelich, PI. Minnesota

Department of Natural Resources, $51,400. Project period May 2001-May 2003.

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European earthworm invasion and dynamics of hardwood forest understory communities.

Lee E. Frelich, PI and Peter B. Reich, co-PI. National Science Foundation, $331,000.

Project period September 2000-August 2004.

Ecological Health and change in Quetico-Superior Forests. P.B. Reich, PI; Frelich has

participated as Co-PI or major collaborator in a number of ongoing projects. Total

support approximately $1,150,000 from Wilderness Research Foundation. Duration:

Ongoing series of grants with periodic renewals, 1992-2013.

Herbivory and regeneration of white cedar and white pine. Lee E. Frelich, PI, and P.B.

Reich, co-PI. Total Support: $44,000 from MNDNR Division of Parks and Recreation.

Duration: April 1994 through June 1999.

Deer browsing and maintenance of herbaceous plant in diversity in Minnesota forests. P.

A. Jordan, PI, and J.Kitts, and L.E. Frelich, co-PIs. Total support: $60,000 from MN

Agricultural Experiment Station. Duration: April 1994 through March 1997.

Mechanisms of patch maintenance in old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests. P.B. Reich,

PI, and L.E. Frelich, K. Puettmann, and M.B. Walters, co-PIs. National Science

Foundation, total support $297,000. Duration: January 1995 through December 1997.

Ecosystem management of Minnesota Forests: a stand-to-landscape approach to

sustainability and biodiversity in harvested and unharvested forests. P.Reich, PI, and

D.Grigal, L.Frelich, M. Bauer, and L.Queen, co-PIs. National Council of the Paper

Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, $200,000. Project period January 1995-

December 1999.

Center for Forest Ecology, endowment fund. Lee E. Frelich, PI. Major benefactors: Bruce

B. Dayton and Wallace C. Dayton, University of Minnesota 21st Century Fellowship

matching fund. Total money raised to date: $650,000.

Center for Forest Ecology. Lee E. Frelich, PI; and P.B. Reich and M.B. Davis, co-PIs.

University of Minnesota, Office of the Vice President for Research, New Initiatives in

Interdisciplinary research Program, $100,000. Project period July 1997- July 2000.

Center for Forest Ecology. Lee E. Frelich, PI. Wood-Rill Foundation, $100,000, May

2001-Sept 2007.

Natural regeneration process of white pine. Lee E. Frelich, PI. Minnesota Department of

Natural resources (from a legislative appropriation), $160,000. Project period August

1997-June 30, 2001.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2019. Climate Reality Leadership Corps, completed training in Minneapolis, August 2-4.

2016. Program chair for the 101st Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting,

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, August 7-12, 2016.

2013. The local program host for the 99th annual ESA meeting in Minneapolis,

Minnesota.

Top 1% of reviewers for environmental science in the world, Publons, 2017, 2018

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1989 to date. Reviewer of 414 manuscripts manuscripts for 100 peer-reviewed journals:

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, American Naturalist, American Midland

Naturalist, Annals of Forest Science, Applied Soil Ecology, Baltic Forestry,

Biogeochemistry, Biogeosciences, Biological Conservation, Biological Invasions,

Biology Letters, Bioscience, Biotropica, BMC Ecology, Botany, Bulletin of the Torrey

Botanical Club, Canadian Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Forest Research,

Canadian Journal of Zoology, Chemistry and Ecology, Climate, Climatic Change,

Conservation Biology, Conservation Ecology, Diversity, Diversity and Distributions,

East African Agritural and Forestry Journal, Ecography, Ecological Applications,

Ecological Engineering, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Monographs, Ecological

Restoration, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecoscience, Ecosphere, Ecosystems,

Environmental Conservation, European Journal of Forest Research, Forest Ecology and

Management, Forests, Forestry, Forest Science, Frontiers in Ecology and The

Environment, Geoderma, Geology Ecology and Landscapes, Global Change Biology,

Global Ecology and Biogeography, The Holocene, International Journal of

Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Forestry,

International Journal of Geoinformation, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of

Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Forest Research, Journal of Forestry,

Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Journal of the

Torrey Botanical Society, Journal of Vegetation Science, Journal of Fish and Wildlife

Management, Landscape Ecology, Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Landscape

Journal, Landscape and Urban Planning, Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences,

Natural Areas Journal, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Natural

Resources Forum (a United Nations Journal), NeoBiota, New Forests, New Phytologist,

Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, Oecologia, Oikos, Pakistan Journal of Scientific

and Industrial Research, Pedobiologia, PeerJ, Plant and Soil, Plant Ecology, Plant

Ecology and Diversity, Plos One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

(USA), Remote Sensing, Restoration Ecology, Safety, Scandinavian Journal of Forest

Research, Science of the Total Environemt, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Southeastern

Naturalist, South African Journal of Botany, Sustainability, Thaiszia-Journal of Botany

(Slovakia), Trees Structure and Function, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Vegetatio,

The Wildlife Society Bulletin.

1990 to date. Reviewer of 82 proposals for: U.S. National Park Service Global Change

Program, USDA Plant and Environment Program, U.S. National Science Foundation,

U.S. Geological Survey, National Geographic Society, Second Century Stewardship

Fellowships (Research in Acadia National Park, granted by American Association for the

Advancement of Science (AAAS), Biodiversa (Europe), NSERC (Canada), and National

Science Center of Poland.

2000 to date. Reviewer for book manuscripts, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

University Press, Minnesota Historical Society, Cornell University Press.

2000 to date. Reviewer/fact checker of articles for National Geographic and The New

Yorker.

2013. A signer of the “Open letter to congress from 250 scientists concerned about post-

fire logging”. October 30, 2013. Featured in The New York Times editorial Nov. 8, 2013.

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2010-2017. Meetings Committee, Ecological Society of America. Co-Chair for 2016-

2017.

2010 to date. Faculty of 1000 Biology, Contributing reviewer for the Landscape and

Spatial Ecology Section, 47 published reviews.

2010. Co-author of letter (with Gabriel Filippelli, Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis, and Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana) to

American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman on climate change. Letter was

published in full in The New York Times. Followed by Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate Change and National Security Forum, Washington DC, January 2010.

2009. Member, MN Department of Natural resources, Moose Advisory Committee

2008, Co-organizer, with Sue Galatowitsch, Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity

Conservation: A Minnesota Response, on June 4-5 2008, Minnesota Landscape

Arboretum

2006, Co-organizer, with David Foster (Director of Harvard Forest) of ‘Alteration of

North American forest communities by invasive invertebrates’, an Organized Oral

Session for the Ecological Society of America Meeting in Memphis, TN, August 7, 2006.

2005-2019, Associate Editor, Ecoscience

2004-2007, Associate Editor, Forest Science

1992-1996, 1998-2002, 2004-2009. Three five-year terms on Commissioners Advisory

Committee for Scientific and Natural Areas, Minnesota Department of Natural

Resources.

Principal organizer, 5th Eastern U.S. Old-Growth Forest Conference. Duluth, MN, June

10-12, 1999.

1998-2000. Chair of Cooper Award Committee, Ecological Society of America.

1996. Member, MNDNR’s White Pine Regeneration Strategy Committee.

1996. Participant in Workshop on Large Infrequent Disturbances, at National Center for

Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA.

BOARDS / PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2018 to date, Board of Directors, Green Again Madagascar

2014 to date, Board of Directors, Loring Greenway Association (Minneapolis, MN)

2014 to date, Board of Directors, Citizens for a Loring Park Community (CLPC)

2015-2018, Member, Citizens Advisory Committee for Minneapolis City-wide ecological

plan, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

2002 to date, Member, Minnesota Native Plant Society

2012 to date, Member, Union of Concerned Scientists

1982 to date, Member, Ecological Society of America

2010 to date, Member, Natural Areas Association

1997-to date, Board of Directors, Friends of Loring Park (Minneapolis, MN)

2005 to date, Board of Directors, Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest (MA)

2003 to date, Vice President, Native Tree Society

2004 to date, Member, Forest Guild

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2006 to 2016. Advisory Council, Friends the Boundary Waters Wilderness

2007-2011, Board of Directors, Great River Greening (MN)

2001-2006. Board of Directors, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness (MN)

HONORARY

2018. Honorary Lifetime Membership, Minnesota Native Plant Society, April 21.

2017. Distinguished Academic Staff Award for Research, University of MN, College of

Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Science, May 9.

2017, 2018. Top 1% of reviewers for environmental science in the world, Publons

2017. Outstanding reviewer award for the peer-reviewed journal Forests.

2016. Program Chair, Ecological Society of America 101st Annual Meeting.

2015. Environmental Education Award, Izaak Walton League, Breckenridge Chapter.

2012. Faculty of 1000. Our paper, Li et al 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 659-667,

reviewed and rated ‘Must read’ by F1000 reviewer Eric Post.

2012. Honorary ‘Lee Frelich’ trees established by the Native Tree Society. These include

a 170-year-old white pine in the Algonquin Grove in Mohawk Trail State Forest,

Massachusetts (Eastern Native Tree Society Chapter) and a 300-year-old Pondersoa Pine

in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Western Native Tree Society Chapter).

2011. Volunteer organization of the year, Minneapolis Park and recreation Board, award

to Friends of Loring Park (I accepted the award as president of the organization).

2007-2011, President, Friends of Loring Park.

2009-2010. Chair of the board of directors, Great River Greening.

2008. Protection and Preservation of the Environment Award, Izaak Walton League,

Breckenridge Chapter.

2007. Nature, Research Highlights. Our paper, Holdsworth et al. 2007, Conserv. Biol.,

featured in Nature, August 23, 2007 “Worm Wood”, vol. 448, p843.

2007. Star Academic Professional Award, University of MN, College of Food,

Agriculture and Natural Resource Science.

2006. Outstanding Achievement Award, University of MN, College of Natural Resources.

2006-2008. Chair of MN Department of Natural Resources Commissioner’s Advisory

Committee on Natural Areas and Nongame Wildlife.

2006. Sigurd Olson Memorial Lecturer, The Wilderness Society.

2005. Dean’s Special Merit Award for Faculty Teaching and Research, University of

MN, Colleges of Natural Resources and Agricultural Food and Environmental Science.

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2000. Volunteer of the Year, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

1997. Department of Natural Resources Award, Minnesota DNR.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

Approximately 497 appearances where research is cited or Frelich is quoted, appearing in 121

media venues, including 20 radio and TV stations, 54 newspapers (including online venues), 27

magazines, 9 books and 9 museum exhibits. Most frequent topics include large scale wind

damage to forests, European earthworm invasion, invasive plants, impact of deer on native

plants, forest fires, old growth forests, and climate change.

Selected Highlights

Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 18, 2019, C.B. Bylander, “Aspen, Minnesota’s

dominant tree species, stands for more than autumn”.

Ely Timberjay, Sept. 20, 2019, Marshall Helmberger, “New study finds state’s forests

hard hit by climate change”.

Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sept. 6, 2019, Mary Jane Smetanka, “Best-bet trees for a

changing Minnesota”.

MPLS-STPAUL Magazine, July 8, 2019, Mike Mosedale, “How climate change will

impact Minnesota”.

Minnesota Public Radio, July 4, 2019, Sophia Sura, “Looking back: 20 years ago,

blowdown flattened swaths of Boundary Waters”

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/07/04/bwca-boundary-waters-blowdown-

anniversary

Northern Wilds, June 26, 2019, Emily Stone, “Boundary Waters blowdown ecology: 20

years later”. https://northernwilds.com/boundary-waters-blowdown-ecology-20-years-

later/

North Shore Community Radio—WTIP (Grand Mariais Minnesota), June 19, 2019, Joe

Friedrichs,“Blowdown series part 3: Blowin in the Wind”.

https://www.wtip.org/blowdown-series-part-three-blowin-wind

Minnesota Public Radio, June 18, 2019, “Two scientists on impact of climate change in

Minnesota”, broadcast of Norway House Peace Initiative from April 30, with 3M Chief

Sustainability Officer Gayle Schueller and moderated by Janet Dolan.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/06/18/frelich_and_schueller_on_climate_change

Minnesota Public Radio, Climate Cast, March 6, 2019, Paul Huttner, “Why our trees are

like climate change fighting superheroes”.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/03/06/climate-cast-trees-cut-energy-bills

City Pages, February 20-26, 2019, Susan Du, “Minnesota melting, our state begins its

decent toward an unrecognizable future”. http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesotas-

climate-begins-its-descent-toward-an-unrecognizable-future/506067291

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Minneapolis Star Tribune (Science and Health section), February 3, 2019, Mark Boswell,

“Minnesota, the new Kansas?”

KPCW radio, Park City Utah, February 5, 2019, Christopher Cherniak and Nell Larson,

This Green Earth.

Scientific American, February 1, 2019, April Reese, “Polar Vortex Could Knock Back

Invasive Tree-Killers—for a While”.

Bloomberg News, February 1, 2019, Adam Allington, “Polar Vortex Could Hit Tree-

Damaging Insects Hard”.

National Public Radio, January 29, 2019, Jeremy Hobson, Here and Now, produced by

WBUR, Boston, “Frigid temperatures are bad news for this invasive tree-eating bug”.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/01/29/polar-vortex-emerald-ash-borer

Minnesota Public Radio, January 17, 2019, Cody Nelson, “From disease to habitat loss,

researchers lay out Minnesota's bleak climate realities”.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/01/17/minnesota-house-climate-committee-hearing

Climate Cast and Minnesota Public Radio Updraft Blog, January 15, 2019, Paul Huttner,

“The benefits of extreme cold in Minnesota”.

Minnesota Public Radio, Dec 5, 2018, Cody Nelson, “Your Christmas tree has an

environmental footprint. Here is how to minimize it”.

Climate Cast, Sept 28, 2018. Paul Huttner, “The changing outdoors under a warming

climate.”

Minnesota Public Radio, Sept. 25, 2018. Cody Nelson, “Minnesota's fall colors season is

changing, right before our eyes” https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/25/minnesota-

fall-color-season-changing-climate-change

Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sept 23, 2018. Josephine Marcotty, “As ash trees succumb,

conservationists rebuild a forest along the Mississippi River”.

http://www.startribune.com/as-ash-trees-succumb-conservationists-rebuild-a-forest-

along-the-mississippi-river/494042331/

Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 21, 2018. Tori McCormick “Earthworms are bait.

They’re also a nightmare for healthy forests”. http://www.startribune.com/earthworms-

are-bait-they-re-also-a-nightmare-for-healthy-forests/486178521/

Minnesota Public Radio, April 16, 2018. Cody Nelson, “How the warming climate will

turn the Boundary Waters into a barren grassland”.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/04/16/climate-change-boundary-waters-grassland

Pine City Pioneer, Pine City, MN, March 30, 2018. Salmela, Terry, “Horticulture day

crowd learns how forests change with the climate.”

Updraft Blog (Minnesota Public Radio News), Jan. 2, 2018, Paul Huttner. “Why do trees

like it cold?”

Great Lakes Echo, October 26, 2017, Steven Maier, “Saving the great Northwoods may

require transforming it”. http://greatlakesecho.org/2017/10/26/saving-the-great-

northwoods-may-require-transforming-it/

Peninsula Pulse, Door County, WI, October 19, 2017. Frelich, L.E., “How earthworms

will magnify the effects of climate change on Wisconsin forests.”

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Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa Ontario, Canada), Tom Spears, Oct. 6, 2017, “Poison ivy on

steroids: another side of climate change.”

West Central Tribune (Willmar MN), Tom Cherveny, Aug. 30, 2017, “Improving western

Minnesota wetlands by taking on an invader that arrived in plain sight.”

http://tomcherveny.areavoices.com/2017/08/30/improving-western-minnesota-wetlands-

by-taking-on-an-invader-that-arrived-in-plain-sight/

Star Tribune, Minneapolis MN, Josephine Marcotty, Aug. 13, 2017, “As climate warms,

an exploding larch beetle population is transforming Minnesota's forests”.

Die Zeit (German weekly newspaper), Fritz Habekuß, August 2, 2017, Der

Unterwanderer: Ein Tier, das in Europa als Segensbringer gilt, bedroht in Amerika ganze

Wälder.

LaCrosse Tribune, Chris Hubbuch, July 30, 2017, “After half century, endangered cricket

frogs return”. http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/after-half-century-endangered-

cricket-frogs-return/article_fae27f07-a7fe-5d5b-bf72-e95facd94bee.html

Minnesota Public Radio, Cathy Wurzer, July 6, 2017, “Why are trees moving west?”

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/07/06/trees-are-moving-west

Climate Cast, Paul Huttner, Minnesota Public Radio, “Minnesotan's questions,

answered”. July 6, 2017.

Climate Cast, Paul Huttner, Minnesota Public Radio, “The warming of MN forests and

lakes”. June 29, 2017.

Star Tribune, Minneapolis MN, Josephine Marcotty, May 23, 2017. Scientists planting

400 acres of Minnesota pines to survive climate change.

http://www.startribune.com/saving-minnesotan-s-northern-forests-one-site-at-a-

time/423853843/

Duluth News Tribune, Duluth MN, John Meyers, March 10, 2017 (and St.Paul Pioneer

Press, March 13), “Study: some tree species unable to adapt to climate change”.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4232843-study-some-tree-species-unable-

adapt-climate-change

U.S. Firescience.gov Friday Flash eNews. Issue 188 | February 17, 2017, ‘A Synthesis of

Fire and Oak Restoration in the Northeastern United States’, http://us2.campaign-

archive2.com/?u=5f6de7b069a57255f980944b4&id=deff68435f

Peninsula Pulse, Door County WI, February 16, 2017. Lee Frelich, “Are these the last

days for Door County’s boreal forests?” https://doorcountypulse.com/last-days-door-

countys-boreal-forests/

KARE 11 News, Jeff Edmonson, November 3, 2016, “Invasive earthworms endangering

MN forests”, http://www.kare11.com/life/outdoors/invasive-earthworms-endangering-

mn-forests/347257854

Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, Laurie Allmann, November-December 2016,

“Through the Looking Glass”.

Duluth News Tribune, John Meyers, Sept. 16, 2016, “European worms harming North

American forest diversity”. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4117692-european-

worms-harming-north-american-forest-diversity

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Minneapolis Star Tribune, Josephine Marcotty, May 27, 2016, “DNR pursues better plan,

better numbers on deer”, http://www.startribune.com/dnr-needs-better-plan-better-

numbers-on-deer/380977841/

Scientific American, Tim Palucka, May 1 2016, “Do all trees snap at 94 mph?”,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-all-trees-snap-at-about-94-mph/

New Scientist, Bob Holmes, April 6, 2016, “Invasive earthworms threaten growth of new

North American trees”

Minnesota Public Radio, Mid-Morning with Kerri Miller, Aug. 5, 2015. Forest fires and

fire danger. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/05/bcst-controlled-burns-may-hold-

the-key-to-manageable-wildfire-seasons

Peninsula Pulse, Door County WI, July 17, 2015. Lee Frelich, “What will happen to our

boreal forests?” http://www.ppulse.com/Articles-The-Green-Page-c-2015-07-16-

122706.114136-The-Climate-Corner.html

The Growler. June 30, 2015. Adam Overland, “Climate change: the good, the bad and the

barley” http://growlermag.com/climate-change-the-good-the-bad-and-the-barley/

St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 9, 2015. Dave Orrick, “From Boundary Waters mines to

earthworm invasion: a conversation with Lee Frelich”

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_27667922/from-boundary-waters-mines-earthworm-

invasion-conversation-lee

Minnesota Public Radio, Evening Edition, Feb. 2, 2015. “Climate change in Minnesota,

23 signs”. Note: Uses former Ph.D. student Nick Danz’ maps of maple abundance before

settlement and now. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/02/climate-change-primer

Minnesota Public Radio, Evening Edition, Feb. 2, 2015. Elizabeth Dunbar and Dan

Kraker, “Climate change in Minnesota: more heat, more big storms”

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/02/climate-change-the-proof

Minnesota Public Radio, Morning Edition, Feb. 3, 2015. Dan Kraker, “As state warms, a

few spots keep their cool” http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/03/climate-change-

coldspots

Minnesota Public Radio, Evening Edition, Feb. 3, 2015. Dan Kraker, “Forest dilemma:

what will grow in a changing climate?”

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/03/climate-change-forestry

Minneapolis Star Tribune. April 9, 2014. Jon Tevlin, “Tevlin: Legislators join battle

against cattails” http://www.startribune.com/tevlin-legislators-join-battle-against-

cattails/254457791/

Weather.com (Weather Channel), January 9, 2014. Michele Berger, Frigid weather may

harm emerald ash borer populations.

Live Science, January 7, 2014. Becky Oskin, Extreme cold could halt invasive insect.

New York Times, November 8, 2013. Editorial Board, The wrong way to save a forest.

Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 20, 2013. Josephine Marcotty, Saving the Great

Northwoods.

St. Paul Pioneer Press, September 10, 2013. John Welbes, Minnesota’s top polluting

power plants singled out.

Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 24, 2013. Bill McAuliffe, “Latest earthworm dirt:

Climate change villain”

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Capital Times (Madison, WI), April 7, 2013. Bill Beerry, “Climate change deniers driven

by dogma”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 1, 2013. Bill McAuliffe, “Pests wait out Minnesota’s

cold”

Minnesota Public Radio, January 30, 2013. Stephanie Hemphill, “Competing goals

apparent in new policy on old forest”

St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 27, 2012. Dave Orrick, “Signs of life appearing in area

blackened by the Pagami Creek Fire”

Climate Wire, May 21, 2012. Daniel Cusick, “WILDLIFE: The ice goes, fire comes and

new species redefine the North Woods”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 13, 2012. Kim Palmer, “Do new maps provide relief

for zone envy?”

Science News for Kids, November 9, 2011. Cecile LeBlanc, “Tiny earthworms’ big

impacts”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 20, 2011. Bill McAuliffe, “Signs of new life in

BWCA ashes”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 20, 2011. Josephine Marcotty, “From fire: BWCA

forest of the future”

St.Paul Pioneer Press, September 16, 2011. Dave Orrick and Dennis Lien, “Historic

BWCA fire rejuvenates as it burns”

St. Paul Pioneer Press, Sept. 4 , 2011. Dennis Lien, “In Kandiyohi County, an elm forest

that time—and disease—forgot”

Lake Superior Magazine, April-May 2011. Cheryl Lyn Dybas, “Icons of the north woods,

what will the future hold for our moose, wolves and bears?”

Natural History, July-August 2011. Cheryl Lyn Dybas, “A frenzy of bears”.

Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 31, 2010. Tom Meersman, “North woods landscape is

under attack”

St.Paul Pioneer Press, August 30, 2010, Dennis Lien, “Catastrophe for cattails”

MinnPost, August 12, 2010. Steve Berg, “BWCAW blowdown and aftermath show how

global warming is changing Minnesota: Prairies are replacing forests”

Timberjay Newspapers, July 17, 2010. Adam Masloski, “Forest School—Outdoor

classroom”.

Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. January-February 2010, Gustave Axelson, “Trees fit

for the future”

The New York Times, January 11, 2010. Allison Winter, “Farm Bureau Fires Back

Against Climate Bill's ‘Power Grab’”

Duluth News Tribune, September 15, 2009. John Myers, “Prairie/forest border is moving

north because of warmer climate”

St.Paul Pioneer Press, Sept. 16, 2009. Dennis Lien, “U scientists say forests are feeling

the heat”

Tower-Soudan Timberjay, July 4, 2009, Marshall Helmberger, “The blowdown revisited”

Backpacker, September 2007. Gustave Axelson, “Bye bye, Boundary Waters. As

temperature rise, Minnesota’s North Woods will likely go up in smoke”

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Nature, August 23, 2007. Research Highlights, Ecology, “Worm Wood”, a brief review

of findings of paper by Holdsworth, Frelich and Reich, published in Conservation

Biology 21: 997-1008.

Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 16, 2007, Richard Meryhew. “A blaze with benefits”

Almanac, Twin Cities Public TV (Channel 2), May 11, 2007. Live TV interview with

Eric Eskola and Cathy Wurzer, about the Ham Lake Fire.

New Scientist, March 3, 2007. Jessica Marshall, “War of the Worms”

Boston Globe, December 11, 2006, Beth Daley. “When worms turn”

St.Paul Pioneer Press, October 1, 2006. Dennis Lien. “Last Stand for our forests?”

Almanac, Twin Cities Public TV (Channel 2), July 21, 2006. Live TV interview with Eric

Eskola and Cathy Wurzer, about the Cavity Lake Fire.

The Osgood Files (CBS Radio), June 10, 2004. Charles Osgood, ‘Killer earthworms”

Audubon, March 2004. Peter Friederici, “Earthwormed over”

National Geographic, February 2004. Margaret G. Zackowitz “Attack of the Alien

Earthworms”

Orion, November/December 2003. Tom Horton, “The new old growth”

The New York Times, October 28, 2003. Anne Minard, “Researchers build a case for

Earthworm’s slimy reputation”

Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2003. Eric Slater, story on European earthworms.

BioScience, July 2003. Christine Mlot, “The perfect windstorm study”

The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2003. Ellen Byron, “The worm turns: off home turf, it’s

down to no good.”

American Profile, Northeast Edition, May 11, 2003. Gayle Goddard-Taylor, “Hunting our

heritage trees”

Duluth News Tribune, June 1, 2003. John Myers, “Rising through the ashes”

Duluth News Tribune, May 26, 2002. John Myers, “Trees carry centuries in their

branches”

St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 19, 2001. Dennis Lien, “1,000-year-old trees could go”

Almanac, Twin Cities Public TV (Channel 2), January 19, 2001. Live TV interview with

Eric Eskola and Cathy Wurzer, about the ancient cedars.

The Minnesota Daily, October 13, 2000. Seth Woehrle, “Invasion of European

earthworms altering Minnesota forest floor”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 28, 2000. Norman Berlinger, “A bad case of worms”

St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 18, 2000. Dennis Lien, “A new BWCA branches out”

The New York Times, May 14, 2000. “Blanketed in felled trees, Minnesota braces for

fires”

Newsweek, April 3, 2000. Environment, “Playing the waiting game with a natural

disaster”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, Science, March 29, 2000. Tom Meersman, “A blow down and

windfall in the BWCA”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 11, 1999. Tom Meersman, “Scars won’t fade quickly”

The Minnesota Daily, October 20, 1998. Minneapolis (AP), “Study: high deer population

hurts some native plants”

Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 16, 1998. “High deer population upsetting ecosystem”

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Lists of media venues

Radio

Minnesota Public Radio Mid-Morning call in shows, Daily Circuit, Morning Edition and

Evening Edition news, and Climate Cast (71 times)

Minnesota News Network and Farm News Network, distributed to 80 commercial radio

stations (6 times)

National Public Radio, All Things Considered

National Public Radio, Here and Now

Fargo, ND, KFGO Radio

Grand Marais, North Shore Community Radio, WTIP (5 times)

Grand Rapids, MN, KAXE (4 times)

Outdoor Talk Radio Network (Pennsylvania)

CBC Ontario (2 times)

CBS Radio Osgood Files

Park City, Utah, KPCW Radio, This Green Earth

Two Harbors, MN community radio, KTWH

Boston, WBUR

WCCO Radio, Minneapolis (5 times)

Northampton, MA, WXOJ radio

TV

Kare 11 News, Minneapolis NBC affiliate (6 times)

KSTP 5 Evening News, Minneapolis ABC affiliate (6 times)

Fox 9 News, Twin Cities (5 times)

WCCO TV channel 4, Minneapolis CBS affiliate (16 times)

Twin Cities Public Television Almanac News Magazine (3 times)

WIVB CBS Buffalo, NY

Newspapers and electronic publications

ABC News

Bloomberg Business Week and Bloomberg News

Boston Globe

Capital Times, Madison, WI

City Pages, Minneapolis, MN (4 times)

Climate Progress

Climate Wire (2 times)

Crookston Times (MN)

The Daily Collegian (Penn State)

Daily Hampshire Gazette (Western MA)

Daily Planet (online newspaper in Minneapolis)

The Detroit News

Die Zeit (German weekly newspaper)

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Duluth News Tribune (10 times)

Farm Progress

The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)

Grand Rapids Herald (MN)

Great Lakes Echo (2 times)

Green Bay Press Gazette (Green Bay, WI)

The Journal (International Falls, MN)

The Journal (Downtown Minneapolis, 3 times)

La Crosse Tribune (2 times)

Las Sie Zmienia (Press Release, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland)

Live Science

Los Angeles Times

Maaülikool (Estonian University of Life Science newspaper)

Mesabi Daily News (northern MN)

Miami Herald

Midwest Energy News

Military Technologies

Minneapolis Star Tribune (32 times)

Minnesota Daily (5 times)

MinnPost (an online newspaper, 3 times)

Minnesota Monitor (an online newspaper)

New England Cable News

New York Times (3 times)

Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Outdoor News (Minnesota, 2 times)

Peninsula Pulse (Door County, WI, 3 times)

Pine City Pioneer (Pine City, MN)

Portland Press Herald (Maine)

Rochester Post Bulletin (MN, 3 times)

Science News for Kids

Sierra Club North Star Blog, (by Brock Berglund, Aug. 7, 2014)

St.Cloud Times (MN, 2 times)

St.Paul Pioneer Press (17 times)

Timberjay (Ely and Tower, MN, 13 times)

Union of Concerned Sientists Guest Blog, Feb. 2015

Updraft Blog (by Paul Huttner, 3 times)

U.S. Firescience.gov Friday Flash eNews

Wall Street Journal

Weather.com (Weather Channel website)

West Central Tribune (Wilmar MN, 2 times)

Winona Post (Winona MN)

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Magazines

American Forests

Audubon

Backpacker (5-page feature article, Sept 2007)

Big River Magazine

Bioscience

Canadian Geographic

The Growler

Lake Superior Angler

Lake Superior Magazine

MPLS StPaul Magazine

Minnesota Monthly (Magazine from MN Public Radio)

Minnesota Conservation Volunteer (8 times)

Minnesota (University of Minnesota Alumni Magazine, 2 times)

Momentum (University of Minnesota Institute on Environment)

Mother Jones

National Geographic

National Parks

Natural History

Newsweek (on same page with Marilyn Monroe)

New Scientist (2 times)

Northern Wilds

Oceanography

Orion Magazine

Parade Magazine

Popular Mechanics

Science

Scientific American (2 times)

Wisconsin Natural Resources

Woodland (American Forest Foundation)

Books

2018. Gunflint burning –fire in the Boundary Waters. Cary Griffith, University of

Minnesota Press. Chapters 2, 4, 6, 10, 13, 14, 19 and 22 tell the story of a Boundary

Waters wilderness trip during the Ham Lake Fire of 2007, with Frelich and friends

photographer Layne Kennedy and writer/editor Gus Axelson.

2018. Our living Ancestors. The history and ecology of old-growth forests in Wisconsin

and where to find them. John Bates, Manitowish River Press. Frelich is quoted or data

from publications cited on pages 45, 50, 54, 84, 119-120, 141, 144, 148-149 and 269.

2017. Fire Storm—How Wildfire will shape our future. Ed Struzik, Island Press,

Washington DC. Mentioned on pages 83, 243 and 247. Extensively quoted on page 229

regarding future of the southern boreal forest in a warming climate.

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2017. The Aliens Among Us. Leslie Anthony, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Pages 165-171 and 198-199 discuss earthworm research and the Frelich and Reich (2010)

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment paper.

2010. Paddle North—Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness. Greg

Breining, essays and Layne Kennedy, photography. Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Chapter VII, pages 79-93, discusses Frelich experiences with wind and fire in the

Boundary Waters.

2006. A Scientists guide to talking with the media—practical advice from the Union of

Concerned Scientists. Richard Hayes and Daniel Grossman, Rutgers University Press.

Frelich experiences with the media are discussed on pages, xi, 3, 14, 53, and 56.

2005. Underground—How creatures of mud and dirt shape our world. Yvonne Baskin,

Shearwater, Island Press, Washington DC. Chapter IV, pages 58-79, discuss Frelich’s and

PhD student Cindy Hale’s earthworm research.

2004. The forest for the trees. Jeff Forester. Minnesota Historical Society Press. Quoted

on page 172.

2004. The earth moved—on the remarkable achievements of earthworms. Amy Stewart,

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Chapter, ‘In the Forest’ pages 99-109, discusses

earthworm research by Frelich and Hale.

Videos and museum/art exhibits

2019. Weather to Climate: Our Changing World, Bell Museum, University of Minnesota,

St.Paul. Feb. 2-April 28. A touring exhibit by the Museums and Climate Change

Network, that at its first exhibit at the Bell Muesum, is accompanied by a display showing

current and future biome distributions in the Great Lakes Region, based on research by

Frelich and graduate student Ryan Toot funded by the National Park Service and Geri and

Darby Nelson.

2011-2019. Minnesota’s Boreal Forest at Risk: Vanishing Trees and Plants. A

collaboration with 10 Botanical artists from Minnesota to portray boreal tree speciesin

their natural environment. Has been exhibited in various art galleries throughout the state,

accompanied by Frelich lectures during 2011-2016, and the group is arranging one or

more museum exhibits for 2019 and later.

2017. Visualizing the future of Minnesota’s BWCAW. Collaboration with

photographer/artist David Luke, will show digitally altered impacges of the BWCAW,

removing boreal forest and replacing it with oak savanna to visualize the future with a

warmer climate. Exhibit at the University of Minnesota College of Design, January-

February. Frelich spoke at the opening.

2017. The Thin Skin of Earth—our Soils, exhibit created by the Senckenberg Museum für

Naturkunde, Görlitz, Germany, which opened there June 10, 2016, and is in Frankfurt

Jan. 20-August 13, 2017. The exhibit includes photos of the impact of invasive European

earthworms in North American forests from Frelich’s research program.

2016. Landscape Disturbance. Pictures by photographer/artist Regina Flanagan, of forest

succession after the 2011 Pagami Creek Fire in the BWCAW, will be on exhibit at the

College of Design during fall smester, 2016, and Frelich was part of a panel discussion of

the photographs on October 26.

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2001. Derecho. Science Bulletin, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Video and accompanying exhibit in the Hall of Earth Sciences.

2001. Bell Live! Nature in the city. Video for Middle School use throughout the state of

MN, produced by the Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, MN.

2000. People and forests. Video produced by St.Louis County Land Department.

1997. Minnesota’s white pines: our vanishing heritage. Video produced by the White

Pine Society, Ely Minnesota.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Ca 324 community presentations given to date; approximately 20 presentations annually

to civic groups such as Master Gardeners, Kiwanis clubs, Rotary clubs, retirement clubs,

librairies, public schools, hiking clubs, environmental/green expos, nature centers,

corporations (e.g. Boston Scientific, Land-O-Lakes) and environmental NGOs (e.g. MN

Conservation Corps, Sierra Club, Conservation Minnesota, Citizens Climate Lobby).

Most common topics include: Climate change and forests, Invasive earthworms in

forests, Fire and wind in the boreal forest, Conservation of biodiversity, old-growth

forests and natural areas.

1997 to date, current or past board member of 7 organizations (details above).

2010 to date. Minnesota Boreal Art Project. Science adviser for project by Minnesota

botanical artists to portray changes in Minnesota forests caused by a warming climate.

2010. Award for public involvement in art from Minneapolis Arts Commission, for

commissioning ‘Awakening’ a stained glass window in the Loring Park Commuity

Center. Award given to Friends of Loring Park, August 2010, and accepted by then

President Lee Frelich.

1997. Co-designer of the award winning Garden of the Seasons in Downtown

Minneapolis, Loring Park (with Minneapolis Park Board Chief Horticulturalist at that

time Mary Lerman; the garden has received Committee on Urban Environment (CUE)

and Minnesota Horticultural Society awards).

Selected community presentations

2019. Frelich, L.E. Conservation of Minnesota’s Big Woods. Dedication for Cullen

Nature Preserve, Minnetonka, MN, October 30. 150 people attending.

2019. Frelich, L.E. and David Luke. Invasive: Envisioning the ecological transformation

of the Boundary Waters. Gallery St.Germain, St. Cloud, MN, October 11.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change. Citizens for a Loring Park Community, Minneapolis,

Septmeber 18.

2019. Frelich L.E. Climate change and forests. Cafe Scientifique, Bryant-Lake Bowl,

Minneapolis.

2019. Frelich, L.E. The boreal refugiuim project. Tuesday Group, Ely Minnesota. August

20, 80 attending.

2019. Frelich, L.E. The boreal refugiuim project. Wallace-Hunter cabin on Lake

Vermilion, Minnesota. July 10, 25 attending.

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2019. Frelich, L.E. and David Luke. Visualizing climate change in the BWCAW with

science and art. Faith Lutheran Church, Coon Rapids, MN June 18.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Climate Reality Minnesota, organized by

Anne Marie Gillen, Epsicopal Homes, St.Paul, June 15.

2019. Frelich, L.E., Janet Dolan and Dr. Gayle Schueller. Climate Change Comes Home,

Minnesota Peace Initiative, Norway House. McNamara Alumi Center, University of

Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 30.

2019. Frelich, L.E. When and Why do Trees Leaf Out? The Science of Phenology. LIFE,

Heinz Center, Rochester Community and Technical College, May 1.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Conservation of Minnesota’s Big Woods. Friends of Loring Park

annual garden season Kickoff, Loring Park Community Center, May 4

2019. Frelich, L.E. The Minneapolis city-wide ecological plan. Citizens for a Loring Park

Community, Loring Park Community Center, March 24.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota forests. Saturday with a Scientist, Bell

Museum of Natural History, March 9.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Mapping Minnesota’s future. Loring Greenway Association, Hyatt

Regency Hotel, Minneapolis, Feb. 21, 70 people attending.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Vantage Program, Minnetonka Public

Schools, 20 students, January 10.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Restoration of the Minnesota Bigwoods. Congregational Church,

Rochester, MN, October 24.

2018. Frelich, L.E. and David Luke. Visualizing the future of the BWCAW. First

Congregational Church, Anoka, MN, October 23.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Seven ways a warming climate can kill the boreal forest. Presentation

at Wallace-Hunter home for residents of Lake Vermilion, July 10, 25 attending.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota ecosystems. For Artstart, arts and

ecology mentorship for 14-17 year old students, taught by naturalist Larry Wade, at The

Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge, Bloomington, MN.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Conservation of Minnesota’s Big Woods. LIFE class, Rochester

Community and Technical College, Rochester, MN, June 6.

2018. Frelich, L.E. When and why do trees leaf out? The science of phenology. Friends of

Loring Park Spring Kickoff, Loring Park,Minneapolis, May 5.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in Minnesota. Mendota Heights Garden Club, 25

attending.

2018. Frelich, L.E. The Loring Greenway Woodland Shade Garden. Loring Greenway

Association Annual Donor and Volunteer Appreciation Event, Hyatt Regencey Hotel,

Minneapolis, 90 attending.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota Ecosystems. Minnetonka High School

Vantage Program, Feb. 1, 24 students participating.

2017. Frelich, L.E. How Earthworms Will Magnify the Effects of Climate Change on

Wisconsin Forests. Door County Climate Change Coalition, Sturgeon Bay, WI, October

9.

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2017. Frelich, L.E. Conservation strategies for the Bigwoods forest. Wild ones, Wood

Lake Nature Center, Richfield, MN, 80 people attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests in northern MN and Finland. FinnFest

USA 2017, Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis. 35 people attending, September 23.

2017. Huttner, Paul, Lee Frelich and Jay Austin. Minnesota’s changing climate. North

House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN, 200+ attending, June 3.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Reading the Woods: Forest ecology in the field. North House, Grand

Marais, MN. Afternoon field course for 12 students, June 3.

2017. Frelich, L.E. The Science of climate change. Friends of Loring Park Spring Garden

Kickoff, May13, 70 people attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Historical and future native tree distributions in Minnesota. Ely

Tuesday Group, April 4, 40 people attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota ecosystems. LIFE Program, Heintz

Center, Rochester Community College, March 30, 50 people attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Climate change in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, Art exhibit by

David Luke: Invasive: envisioning the future of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters,

Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, U of MN East Bank Campus, Jan. 27,

80 people attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Are these the last days for Door County’s boreal forests? Door

County Climate Change Coalition, Bjorklunden, Feb. 1, ca 80 people attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Pollinators and urban biodiversity, Loring Greenway Association

annual donor recognition event, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Minneapolis, MN, January 11, ca

80 people attending.

2016. Frelich, L.E. The future of our boreal forest in a changing climate. Newport State

Park Naturalist Program, Door County, WI. August 21, lecture and hike, ca 30 attending.

2016. Frelich L.E. Climate change and forests. National Forest Cabin owners

Association Annual Meeting, Carlson School of Business, Minneapolis Campus, Sept. 17,

50 attending..

2016. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in Minnesota forests. Dodge Nature Center

Owls, June 7, ca 40 people attending.

2016. Frelich L.E. Natural History Tour of the Minnesota Valley Chapter Grounds and

Minnesota River Valley Floodplain, Izaak Walton League. Hike and talk, May 15.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests in Minnesota. Woman’s Club of

Minneapolis, April 5, ca 50 people attending.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Climate change adaptation. Izaak Walton League Breckenridge

Chapter, Champlin, MN, February 23, ca 35 people attending.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Master Gardener Conference, Landscape

Arboretum, Chaska, MN, June 26, ca 80 attending.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and invasive species in the Boundary Waters.

Tuesday Group, Ely, MN, July 21, ca 120 attending.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Garden U 2015, St.Croix Valley Master

Gardeners, New Richmond, WI. March 21, Ca 120 attending.

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2015. Frelich L.E. Restoring urban biodiversity. Keynote presentation, Citizens for a

Loring park Community (CLPC) Annual meeting.march 24, Ca 100 attending.

2015. Frelich, L.E. History and future of oak forests. Keynote presentation, Friends of

Loring Park Annual meeting, Minneapolis MN, May 2, ca 75 attending.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Big wind storms, fires and succession in the BWCAW and Kekakabic

Trail. Kekekabic Trail Club, Feb. 24, Midwest Mountaineering, Minneapolis, MN.

2014. Frelich, L.E. Climate and forests. Citizens Climate Lobby, Jan. 25, Macalester

College, St.Paul, MN.

2014. Frelich, L.E. Earthworms from seed to ecosystem, Osher Lifelong Learning

Institute, Coffman Union, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 28.

2014. Frelich, L.E. Climate change in Minnesota forests. Wild Ones Native Plant group,

March 15, Shorewood, MN, ca 50 attending.

2014. Frelich, L.E. The Deep history of Loring Park: the last 20,000 years. Friends of

Loring Park annual gardening Kickoff, Minneapolis, MN, May 10.

2013. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Osher Life Long Learning Institute,

Minneapolis Campus, Feb. 11, ca 50 attending.

2013. Frelich L.E. Climate change and forests, MinnPost forum at Hells Kitchen,

Minneapolis, Feb. 25, ca 120 attending.

2013. Frelich, L.E. Oak forests and fire. Minnesota Native Plant Society monthly

meeting, South St. Paul, MN, May 2, ca 90 attending.

2013. Frelich, L.E. The Kandiyohi Elm Forest. Friends of Loring Park, Spring Garden

Kickoff. May, 4, 40 people attending.

2013. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Friends of LeDuc Mansion, Hastings,

MN. May 13, 30 people attending.

2013. Frelich, L.E. Science of climate change and impacts on forests. Ely Tuesday Group,

Ely MN. May 13, 60 people attending.

2012. Frelich, L.E. Climate Change and Fire, Izaak Walton League, Breckenridge

Chapter, Feb. 28, 30 people attending.

2012. Frelich, L.E. The Pagami Creek and Hinckley Fires, with Mark Seeley. Hennepin

County Library, Plymouth, MN., March 3, 30 people attending.

2012. Frelich, L.E. Climate Change and Forests, Boston Scientific Corporation April 18,

50 BSC employees attending.

2012. Frelich, L.E. A Conservation on Climate Change, with John Abraham and Paul

Douglas, Sept 27, Champlin High School, 80 people attending.

2011. Frelich, L.E. New Frontiers in Invasive Earthworm Research. Minnesota Native

Plant Society Meeting, Feb. 3, West St.Paul, MN, 68 attending.

2011.Frelich L.E. and P.B. Reich. Climate change and forests. Richardson Nature Center,

Bloomington, MN, March 24. Annual volunteer recognition dinner, ca 50 people

attending.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Climate change, invasive species and forest conservation. Wayzata

Garden Club, Wayzata MN, May 11, ca 30 people attending.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Climate change invasive species and forests. University of Minnesota

Women’s Club, May 25, ca 30 attending.

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2011. Frelich, L.E. Climate change, invasive species and forests. Retired Masons,

Minneapolis MN, May 26, ca 50 people attending.

2010. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Climate change and Minnesota ecosystems,

University of Minnesota Classes Without Quizzes, keynote address. April 10, Ca 120

university alumni and teachers attending.

2010. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Climate change science and ecosystem impacts in

Minnesota, Conversations of the Valley, May 18, Stillwater, MN. Luncheon with ca 100

people attending.

2010. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Climate change and Minnesota forests, Minnesota

Conservation Corps, retreat, St.Croix State Park. July 7, Ca 50 MCC volunteers

attending.

2010. Frelich, L.E., C.M. Hale, A. Holdsworth and P.B. Reich. July 15-16, 2010. Invasive

earthworms in northern hardwood forests. Presentation and hike for weekly lecture series

at the Sylvania Wilderness Visitor Center, July 15-16, Watersmeet, MI. Ca 50 local

residents and wilderness visitors in attendance.

2010. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Forests, invasive species and climate change,

University Women, Luncheon meeting, Nov. 2, 990 Summit Avenue, St.Paul. Ca 120 in

attendance.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Approximately 295 professional presentations given to date, including at least 200 invited

presentations and 80 keynote presentations.

International

2019. Hill, Matt, Rebecca Montgomery (presenter), Leighton Reid and L.E. Frelich. Tree

survival after wildfire in a rainforest restoration project in NE Madagascar. In the

symposium: Restoration of Tropical Forests: lessons from Madagascar and beyond.

Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Annual meeting, Antananarivo,

Madagascar, July 30-Aug. 3, 2019.

2018. Jõgiste, K. (presenter), L.E. Frelich and A. Kangur. Importance of scale and

process in forest disturbance legacies. European Congress of Conservation Biology,

Jyväskylä, Finland, June 14.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Boreal refugia: upwelling cold water and sea breezes. Boreal Refugia

Workshop, Northern Forestry Center, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, March 1.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Conservation strategies for native forest plant communities affected

by invasive earthworms, deer, and fragmentation. North American Forest Ecology

Workshop, Edmonton, Alberta, June 22.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Seven ways a warming climate can kill the boreal forest. Invited

Plenary/Keynote presentation, Conference on Trees and Climate, Polish Academy of

Sciences, Poznan, Poland, October 17, 266 people attending.

2016. Frelich, L.E. 400 years of fire and wind in boreal forests of northern Minnesota.

Invited seminar, Institute of Dendrology, Kornik Poland.

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2016. Frelich, L.E. Ecological cascades emanating from earthworm invasions. Invited

seminar, Institute of Dendrology, Kornik Poland.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Disturbances of many types and sizes impact the boreal to temperate

forest transition in a warming climate. Invited presentation in the symposium, Forest

disturbance dynamics and landscape patterns, Organized by Kalev Jogiste, IUFRO

Landscape Ecology Conference, Tartu, Estonia, August 27, 2015.

2013. Anoszko, E., L.E. Frelich and P.B. Reich. Impacts of multiple disturbances on

species composition and biodiversity in the southern boreal forest. Carbon Sequestration

of Disturbed and Managed Ecosystems Workshop, Aukštaitija National Park, Lithuania,

October 22, 2013.

2013. Anoszko, E., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2013. Impacts of multiple disturbances

on tree community composition and biodiversity in the southern boreal forest. Invited

Seminar University of Helsinki, Finland, November 29, 2013.

2012. Frelich, L.E., R. Rich and P. Reich. Forest blowdowns: severity, relative

susceptibility of tree species and successional paetterns in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters

Wilderness. Invited presentation, Forest Disturbance Research Network (FDRN)

workshop, Järvselja, Estonia, Oct. 2012.

2012. Frelich, L.E., R. Peterson, M. Dovciak, P. Reich, J. Vucetich, and N. Eisenhauer.

Trophic cascades and the temperate-boreal transition in a warming climate. Invited

presentation for the Forest Ungulates Research Network (FURN) workshop, Järvselja,

Estonia, Oct. 2012.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Effects of invasive earthworms on biogescience processes, Opening

presentation for the Symposium, Earthworms in geophysical processes, Canadian

Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May.

2009. Frelich, L.E. 400 years of fire and wind in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters. Opening

presentation for the Symposium on Boreal Forests and Range of Natural Variability,

European Congress of Conservation Biology, Prague, Czech Republic, September.

2001. Frelich, L.E. Canadian old growth: a Science perspective. Keynote address,

Canadian Old Growth Conference, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, November.

1997. Frelich, L.E. Neighborhood effects, disturbance and community stability. Invited

seminar, Montreal Botanical Garden and University of Quebec at Montreal, December 7.

U.S.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Conservation of Minnesota’s Big Woods. Ramsey County Master

Gardeners, October 15.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Earthworm invasion in forests. University of Vermont Forestry

webinar, Sept 18.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Trees and climate change in Minnesota. 2019 Linnaeus Symposium,

Gudstavus Adolphus College, St.Peter, MN, July 18.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Trees for a changing climate. Minnesota Statewide Extension Master

Gardener Conference, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, June 29, 100 people attending.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Historical and future native tree species in Minnesota. Dakota County

Master Gardeners, Farmington, MN, May 6.

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2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change adaptation in parks of the Great Lakes Region, and

Plant-of-the-month, Balsam poplar. Minnesota Native Plant Society, West St. Paul, MN,

March 7.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Environment and Natural Resources

Policy Committee, Rep. John Percell, Chair, State Capitol, St. Paul, MN, January 23.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Minnesota State House of

Representatives, Energy and Climate Finance and Policy Committee, Rep. Jean Wagenius

Chair. Jessica Hellmann, emcee, State Capitol, St.Paul, MN, January 17.

2019. Frelich, L.E. Historical and future native tree species in Minnesota. Northern

Green conference, Minneapolis Convention Center. Organized by Matt Cavanaugh. 80

people attending, January 15.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Old growth forest landscapes of the Porcupine Mountains and

Sylvania. Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee (MNSTAC) annual holiday forum,

65 attending, Dec. 20.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota forests. Minnesota Association of Soil

and Water Conservation Districts (MASWCD), 100+ attending, Dec. 10.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in forest ecosystems. Army Corps of Engineeers,

webinar, October 24.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Bayport Library, Oct. 25, Washington

County Master Gardeners, Bayport Library, Bayport, MN, October 25.

2018. Wragg, P., Schuster, M., Frelich, L., Roth, A., Bockenstedt, P., Cover it Up! Using

Plants to Control Buckthorn. Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference, Rochester, MN,

October 16.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Long term research in natural areas. Friends of Scientific and Natural

Areas, Wood-Rill Natural Area, Orono, MN, October 7.

2018. Frelich, L.E.. Trees and Climate change. Hennepin County Master Gardeners ,

Hennepin Tech college, Brooklyn Park, MN, 150 people attending, October 1.

2018. Frelich, L.E. and K. Sames. Effects of canopy windthrow on plant diversity and

succession in mesic deciduous forests of southeastern Minnesota. Part of Organized Oral

Session 12: Ecological Impacts of Tornados on Eastern Deciduous Forest: Short- and

Long-Term Case Studies from the Eastern United States. Ecological Society of America

103rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 7.

2018. Stralberg, D. (presenter), S. Nielsen et al. Climate-change refugia in boreal North

America: what, where, and for how long? Part of Organized Oral Session 35: The science

of resistance: climate change refugia and the face of heat, droughts, floods, fires and

forest pests. Ecological Society of America 103rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans,

Louisiana, August 9.

2018. Frelich, L.E. A world-class biogeographical oddity: the boreal forests of Door

County. Minnesota Native Plant Society, June 7.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in northern forest ecosystems. The stewardship

Network monthly webinar, May 9. Archived at www.stewardshipnetwork.org/webcast.

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2018. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in forest ecosystems. Anoka County Master

Gardeners, Anoka, MN. April 26

2018. Frelich, L.E. Seven ways a warming climate can kill the boreal forest. Department

of Forest Resources Monthly Seminar, April 25.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Managing forests for biodiversity in a rapidly changing climate,

Natural Resource Association of Graduate Students (NRAGS) symposium, St.Paul

Campus, April 25.

2018. Frelich, L.E.. Old growth landscapes: hemlock-hardwood forests of the Porcupine

Mountains and Sylvania. Minnesota Native Plant Society Annual Symposium, Old

growth forests: examining a disappearing landscape. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum,

April 21, 200 attending.

2018. Frelich, L.E. On overview of fire ecology. U.S. Forest Service National Advanced

Silviculture Program (NASP). St.Paul Campus, April 5

2018. Bryan Runck, Evan Roberts, Lee Frelich, David VanRiper and Kyungsoo Yoo. One

state, two populations, and two histories: Swedes and European earthworms in

Minnesota. Minnesota Population Center, West Bank Campus of the University of

Minnesota, April 2.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota ecosystems. Pine County Master

Gardeners keynote, Pine City, MN, 180 attending.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Framing the challenge of management for biodiversity given

uncertain climate change impacts on habitat. Resilient habitat seminar sponsored by MN

DNR and University of MN Center for Changing Landscapes.

2018. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and Minnesota Ecosystems. Dakota Master Gardener

conference Keynote, Rosemount, MN, March 3, 200 attending.

2018. Butler, Ethan and L.E. Frelich. Identifying climate analogs and refugia. Training in

advanced climate change topics for U.S. Forest Service managers, Minneapolis, MN,

March 1.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Earthworms, invasive plants and deer. CISMA (Collaborative

Invasive Species Management), Duluth, MN, Oct. 17.

2017. Frelich, L.E. 400 years of fire and wind in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe

Area Wilderness. Master Naturalist class at North House, Grand Marais, MN, ca 25

students.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in Minnesota. Minnesota Nursery and Landscape

Association information meeting on Asian earthworms, St.Paul, April 28, 15 attending.

2017. Frelich, L.E. Disturbance and succession in the boreal forest: 400 years of fire and

wind in northern Minnesota. Invited seminar, Department of Geosciences, Unniversity of

Arkansas, Fayetteville, April 7, 50 attending.

2017. Frelich. L.E. Climate change and Minnesota ecosystems. Carver-Scott Master

Gardeners Keynote, April 1, ca 170 attending.

2017. Hawkinson, A, R. Montgomery, L.E. Frelich, C. Roy and L. Shartell. Avian and

plant communities in disturbance-dependent brushland. Minnesota Wildlife Society

Annual Meeting, Feb. 15, Maplelag resort, Callaway, MN.

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2017. Frelich, L.E. Aspen and fire in the Lake States, webinar, Lake States Fire

Consortium, Jan 19. Available at: http://lakestatesfiresci.net/webinar_01_19_17.html

2016. Frelich, L.E. Historic and future roles of fire in Minnesota forests. Invited keynote,

SFEC Fire in Minnesota Forests Symposium, December, 1, Grand Rapids, MN, 130

people attending.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Member of panel to discuss photographs of succession after the

Pagami Creek fire, by Regina Flanagan. College of design, U of MN Campus, October

26.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Oak and fire in Minnesota forests. Sustainable forests education

cooperative webinar, October 25, available at:

http://sfec.cfans.umn.edu/2016-webinar-oak-and-fire-in-minnesota-forests/

2016. Schuster, M., P. Wragg, P. Reich, and L. Frelich. Cover it up! Using plants to

control buckthorn. Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference, October 17, La Crosse,

WI.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Disturbance and succession on the boreal forest: 400 years of fire and

wind in northern Minnesota. Texas A&M University, Ecosystem Science and

Management, Fall 2016 Seminar Series, Disturbance in the Anthropocene: a multi-

ecosystem perspective, Sept. 27, ca 45 people attending.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Biotic resistance to invaders, Itasca State Park. Mississippi River

Basin Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species, Itasca State Park, MN, Sept 21, ca 35 people

attending.

2016. L.E. Frelich. 400 years of fire and wind in Minnesota’s BWCAW. Minnesota Native

Plant Society annual symposium, Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, April 2,

ca 170 people attending.

2016. L.E. Frelich, L.E. Historical and future native tree distributions in Minnesota.

Shade Tree Short Course, general Session of ca 1000 people, Benson Great Hall, Bethel

University, St.Paul, MN, March 16.

2016. Frelich, L.E. Fire-dependent forest ecosystems of the northern Lake States. Plenary

presentation for ca 250 people, Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of the Wildlife

Society, Mankato, MN, Feb. 9.

2015. Frelich, L.E. The science and ecology of climate change. Opening presentation for

the conference for 120 medical professionals: Climate change and public health: An

interprofessional review. Allina Health headquarters, Minneapolis, Nov. 21.

2015. Frelich, L.E., N.A. Fisichelli, N. Eisenahuer, and P.B. Reich. Large ungulates,

landscape dynamics, and forest succession in a changing climate. Invited presentation for

the Organized Oral Session: Ungulate overabundance as a driver of above and below

ground interactions, organized by Colin Cope (Case Western Reserve University) and

Susan Kalisz (University of Tennesee). Ecological Society of America 100th Annual

Meeting, August 12, Baltimore, MD.

2015. Lee E. Frelich and Rebecca Rom. Effects of copper-sulfide mining on the Boundary

Waters Wilderness: The Science. Organized by Save the Boundary Waters, Vermilion

Community College, Ely MN, July 21.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and forests. Steger Summer Institute. Apple Valley

MN, June 15.

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2015. Frelich, L.E. Future of the boreal forest in a changing climate. Invited presentation

at the Door County Climate Change Forum, Sturgeon Bay, WI, May 9.

2015. Frelich, L.E. Disturbance and succession in the boreal forest: 400 years of fire and

wind in northern Minnesota. Invited seminar, Department of Plant Biology, University of

Georgia, Athens, March 2.

2014. Frelich, L.E., R. Rich, E. Anoszko, and P. Reich. Testing theories of disturbance in

temperate and boreal forests, Invited presentation for the Organized Oral Session by Jill

Johnstone and Monica Turner, Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 13,

Sacramento, CA.

2014. Roth, A.M., Lodge, A.G., Frelich, L.E., Reich, P.B. A weedy issue: Shifts in

community composition following common buckthorn removal. Upper Midwest Invasive

Species Conference. October 2014, Duluth, MN.

2014. Anoszko, E., Frelich, L.E., and P.B. Reich. Once burned twice shy: multiple fires

and wind+fire combinations alter successional patterns in the boreal forest. International

Association of Wildland Fire, Association for Fire Ecology, conference on Large

Wildland Fires: Social, Political and ecological effects conference. Missoula, MT, May

19-23, 2014.

2014. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and biome shifts, Invited presentation, Native Tree

Society, Durango, CO.

2014. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and the prairie-forest and temperate-boreal forest

ecotones, Master Naturalists Annual Conference Keynote, Annandale, MN.

2013. Frelich, L.E. Forests and climate change, St. Croix National Scenic River, St.

Croix Falls, WI.

2013. Frelich, L.E. Minnesota Forests at the Crossroads: spruce, maple or savanna?,

Minnesota Zoo, Our World Speaker Series, Apple Valley, MN.

2013. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. European earthworm invasion in forests. 37th Annual

National Indian Timber Symposium. Menominee Nation Casino, KeshenaWI.

2012. Frelich, L.E. Phenological observations. Minnesota Phenology Association annual

meeting, keynote presentation. Cloquet Forestry Center, MN.

2012. Frelich, L.E. Oak in the context of climate change, Oak Symposium, keynote

presentation, St.John’s University, Collegeville, MN.

2012. Frelich, L.E. Climate change in Forests. Menominee Casino Resort, Keshena, WI.,

80 tribal members and foresters attending.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Climate change, invasive species and forests. Hannover Lecture,

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Assisted migration, invasive species and vulnerable species, Shifting

Seasons Great Lakes Climate Change Summit. College of Menominee Nation Sustainable

Development Institute, Menominee Casinao Hotel, Keshena, WI.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Climate change, invasive species and the priaire-forest border.

Adaptive Peaks lecture. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse,

NY, April.

2011. Frelich, L.E. Tree mortality and fires, Bureau of Indian Affairs Midwestern Annual

Forestry Meeting, Grand Casino, Hinckely, MN.

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2010. Frelich, L.E. Ecology of Black Ash, Keynote presentation for 300 people at The

Black Ash Symposium, Bemidji, MN.

2010. Frelich, L.E. Opening presentation on climate change and forests of the Public

symposium: Moose in a warming world. Part of the 2010 Moose Conference and

Workshop, International Falls, MN.

2010. Frelich, L.E. Hemlock and maple forest dynamics, Bureau of Indian Affairs

Midwestern Annual Forestry Meeting, Laona, WI.

2010. Frelich, L.E. Climate change and invasive species in forests, Luncheon banquet

presentation for the Minnesota-Wisconsin Invasive Species Conference for 600 people.

St.Paul, MN.

2010. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Climate change and Minnesota Ecosystems,

Minnesota Association for Environmental Education (MAEE) annual meeting keynote

address, Sugar Lake Lodge, Grand Rapids, MN. Ca 130 K-12 teachers attending.

2010. Frelich, L.E. New frontiers in invasive earthworm research. Plenary presentation at

the Midwest Fish and Wildlife conference for ca 800 people, Minneapolis, MN.

2010. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Climate Change and Ecosystem Adaptation in the

Great Lakes National Parks, National Park Service Annual Midwest Regional

Conference, Green Hall, St.Paul Campus, ca 120 NPS employees attending.

2010. Frelich, L.E. Forests and moose on Isle Royale National Park, MI, Eastern Native

Tree Society Annual Meeting and Forest Summit, Holyoke Ma. Ca 110 ENTS and local

residents in attendance.

2009. Frelich, L.E. Climate change, earthworm invasion, and future of forest and aquatic

ecosystems in Minnesota. Rivers and Lakes Conference, Rochester, MN.

2009. Frelich, L.E. Keynote presentation, Climate change and forests at The Gypsy Moth

Review, Minneapolis, MN.

2009. Frelich, L.E. Earthworms and forest, Bureau of Indian Affairs Midwestern Annual

Forestry Meeting. Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, MN.

2008. Frelich, L.E. Invited presentation at The Climate Change Forum, Ely MN, with

Arctic explorer Will Steger, MN Governor Tim Pawlenty, and U.S. Senator Amy

Klobuchar.

2008. Frelich, L.E. Global warming and forests, Bureau of Indian Affairs Midwestern

Annual Forestry Meeting, College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI.

2008. Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. Fire Ecology in the BWCAW. Bureau of Indian

Affairs, Regional Forestry Meeting, College of Menominee Nationa, Keshena, WI.

2008. Frelich, L.E. Bennet Memorial Lecture, 400 years of fire and wind in the BWCAW,

University of Michigan Biological Station.

2008. Frelich, L.E. Keynote presentation, Forest and climate change, Winter Camper

Rendezvous, Ely MN.

2007. Frelich, L.E. Fire and wind in the boreal forest, Bureau of Indian Affairs

Midwestern Annual Forestry Meeting. College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI..

2007. Frelich, L.E. Wind and tree mortality, Minnesota Shade Tree Conference, Bethel

University, Roseville, MN, ca 800 arborists attending.

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2007. Frelich, L.E. Presentation on Global warming and forests, to a joint meeting of the

Minnesota State House and Senate, Capitol Building, St.Paul.

2007. Frelich, L.E. Global warming and forests, Rochester Community College, with

U.S. House Representative Tim Walz and J. Drake Hamilton, Rochester MN.

2006. Frelich, L.E. Invited Seminar, Climate change and invasive species, Michigan Tech

University, Houghton, MI.

2006. Frelich, L.E. Forests and climate change, The Science Museum of Minnesota, with

Paul Douglas of WCCO TV and J Drake Hamilton of Fresh Energy.

2005. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms in forests. Keynote talk, Eastern Native Tree

Society annual meeting, Holyoke, MA.

2004. Frelich, L.E. Invasive earthworms, Invited seminar Iowa State University, Ames,

IA.

2004. Frelich, L.E. Plenary presentation, Disturbance ecology, North American Forest

Biology Workshop, Houghton, MI.

2004. Frelich, L.E. Fire and restoration, for ca 800 orborists, Minnesota Shade Tree

Conference, Bethel University, Roseville, MN.

2003. Frelich, L.E. Disturbance and range of natural variability, Society of American

Foresters, Buffalo, NY.

PUBLICATIONS

Total of 179 publications (100 peer reviewed articles, 12 books/book chapters, 3 book reviews,

and 63 technical reports, encylclopedia articles or popular items, 1 novel). Publications have

appeared in 47 peer-reviewed journals with 247 coauthors from 23 countries. Top 1% of

scientists in the world list, Web of Science, Essential Science Indicators, Ecology and

Environment category (2014-2017). Web of Science H-index 40, 5,273 citations, four papers

listed as ‘highly cited’ and one as ‘hot’ during 2018. Google Scholar Citations: career total 9173,

670 for calendar year 2018, H-index 51, 25 publications with >100 citations, 13 with >200.

Peer-reviewed articles

Frelich, L.E. 2019. Terrestrial ecosystem impacts of sulfide mining: scope of issues for the

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota, USA. Forests 10(9): 747;

https://doi.org/10.3390/f10090747

Wilson, D.C., R. Morin, L.E. Frelich and A.R. Ek. Monitoring Disturbance Intervals in Forests:

A Case Study of Increasing Forest Disturbance in Minnesota. 2019. Annals of Forest

Science 76:78.

Frelich, L.E., B. Blossey, E.K. Cameron, A. Davalos, N. Eisenahuer, T. Fahey, O. Ferlian, P.

Groffman, E. Larson, S. Loss, J. Maerz, V. Nuzzo, P.B. Reich, K. Yoo. 2019. Side swiped:

ecological cascades emanating from earthworm invasion. Frontiers in Ecology and the

Environment 17: 502-510, doi:10.1002/fee.2099.

Stralberg, D., D. Arsenault, J.L. Baltzer, Q.E. Barber, E.M. Bayne, Y. Boulanger, C.D. Brown,

H.A. Cooke, K. Devito, J. Edwards, C.A. Estevo, N. Flynn, L.E. Frelich, E.H. Hogg, M.

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Johnston, T. Logan, S.M. Matsuoka, P. Moore, T.L. Morelli, J.L. Morisette, E.A. Nelson,

H. Nenzén, S.E. Nielsen, M-A. Parisien, J.H. Pedlar, D.T. Price, F.K.A. Schmiegelow,

S.M. Slattery, O. Sonnentag, D.K. Thompson, and E. Whitman. 2019. Climate-change

refugia in Boreal North America: what, where, and for how long? In Press, Frontiers in

Ecology and the Environment.

Jõgiste, K, L.E. Frelich, D. Laarmann, E. Baders, J. Donis, A. Jansons, A. Kangur, H. Korjus, K.

Köster, J. Kusmin, T. Kuuluvainen, V. Marozas, M. Metslaid, S. Metslaid, O.

Polyachenko, A. Poska, S. Rebane, J. Stanturf, and F. Vodde. 2018. Imprints of

management history on hemiboreal forest ecosystems in the Baltic States. Ecosphere 9(11):

article e02503.

Sommerfeld, A., C. Senf, B. Buma, A. D'Amato, T. Després, I. Díaz-Hormazábal, S. Fraver, L.E.

Frelich, Á.G. Gutiérrez, S.J. Hart, B.J. Harvey, H.S. He, T. Hlásny, A. Holz, T. Kitzberger,

D. Kulakowski, D. Lindenmayer, A.S. Mori, J. Müller, J. Paritsis, G.L.W. Perry, S.L.

Stephens, M. Svoboda, M.G. Turner, T.T. Veblen, R. Seidl. 2018. Patterns and drivers of

recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome. Nature Communications, doi:

10.1038/s41467-018-06788-9.

Looney, C.E., A.W. D’Amato, S. Fraver, B.J. Palik, and L.E. Frelich. 2018. Interspecific

competition limits the realized niche of Fraxinus nigra along a waterlogging gradient.

Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48: 1292-1301.

Patton, S., M.B. Russell, M.A. Windmuller-Campione, and L.E. Frelich. 2018. Quantifying

impacts of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimmerman) browse using forest

inventory and socio-environmental datasets. PLoS ONE, 13(8): e0201334.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201334.

Webster, C.R., Y.L. Dickinson, J. I. Burton, L.E. Frelich, M.A. Jenkins, C.C. Kern, P. Raymond,

M.R. Saunders, M.B. Walters, and J.L. Willis. 2018. Tamm Review: Promoting and

maintaining diversity in contemporary hardwood forests: confronting contemporary drivers

of change and the loss of ecological memory. Forest Ecology and Management 421: 98-

108.

Dyderski, M.K., S. Paz, L.E. Frelich, and A.M. Jagodzinski. 2018. How much does climate

change threaten European forest tree species distributions? Global Change Biology, 24:

1150-1163.

Frelich, L.E. 2017. Wildland Fire: understanding and maintaining an ecological baseline.

Current Forestry Reports, (online), doi:10.1007/s40725-017-0062-3.

Jõgiste, K., H. Korjus, J.A. Stanturf, L.E. Frelich, E. Baders, J. Donis, A. Jansons, A. Kangur, K.

Köster, D. Laarmann, T. Maaten, V. Marozas, M. Metslaid, K. Nigul, O. Polyahcenko, T.

Randveer, and F. Vodde. 2017. Hemi-boreal forest: natural disturbances and the importance

of ecosystem legacies to management. Ecosphere 8(2): article e01706.

Frelich, L.E. 2017. “Boreal Biome” Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Ed. David Gibson.

Update of the 2013 version. New York: Oxford University Press, September, 2017.

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199830060/obo-

9780199830060-0085.xml?rskey=uXGPUZ&result=6

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Frelich, L.E., D.W. Peterson and P.B. Reich. 2017. The changing role of fire in mediating the

relationships among oaks, grasslands, mesic temperate forests and boreal forests in the

Lake States. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 36(5): 421-432.

Craven, D., M. Thakur, E. Cameron, L.E. Frelich, R. Beausejour, R. Blair, B. Blossey, J. Burtis,

A. Choi, A. Davalos, T. Fahey, N. Fisichelli, K. Gibson, I.T. Handa, K. Hopfenspberger, S.

Loss, V. Nuzzo, J. Maerz, T. Sackett, B. Scharenbroch, S. Smith, M. Vellend, L. Umek,

and N. Eisenhauer. 2017. The unseen invaders: introduced earthworms as drivers of change

in plant communities in North American forests (a meta-analysis). Global Change Biology

23: 1065-1074.

Frelich, L.E. 2016. “Temperate Coniferous Forests” Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Ed.

David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press, October 2016.

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199830060/obo-

9780199830060-0162.xml?rskey=bkX55P&result=67.

Johnstone, J.F, C.D. Allen, J.F. Franklin, L.E. Frelich, B.J. Harvey, P.E. Higuera, M.C. Mack,

R.K. Meentemeyer, M.R. Metz, G.L.W. Perry, T. Schoennagel, and M.G. Turner. 2016.

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory and forest resilience. Frontiers in

Ecology and the Environment 14: 369-378.

Frelich, L.E. 2016. Forest dynamics. F1000 Research 2016, 5(F1000 Faculty Reviews: 183 DOI

10.12688/f1000research.7412.1).

Fisichelli, N.A., A. Stefanski, L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2015. Temperature and leaf nitrogen

affect performance of plant species at range overlap. Ecosphere, 6(10): article 186.

Vodde, F., K. Jogiste, J. Engelhart, L.E. Frelich, W.K. Moser, A. Sims, M. Metslaid. 2015.

Impact of wind-induced microsites and disturbance severity on tree regeneration patterns:

Results from the first post-storm decade. Forest Ecology and Management 348: 174-185.

Roth, A.M., T.J.S. Whitfeld, A.G. Lodge, N. Eisenhauer, L.E. Frelich and P.B. Reich. 2015.

Invasive earthworms interact with abiotic conditions to influence the invasion of common

buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica). Oecologia 178: 219-230.

Schlaghamersky, J., N. Eisenhauer, and L.E Frelich. 2014. Earthworm invasion alters enchytraied

community composition and individual biomass in northern hardwood forests of North

America. Applied Soil Ecology 83: 159-169.

Whitfeld, T.J.S., A.M. Roth, A.G. Lodge, N. Eisenhauer, L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2014.

Resident plant diversity and introduced earthworms have contrasting effects on the success

of invasive plants. Biological Invasions 16: 2181-2193.

Fisichelli, N.A., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2014. Temperate tree expansion into adjacent

boreal forest patches facilitated by warmer temperatures. Ecography 37: 152-161.

Danz, N.P., L.E. Frelich, P.B. Reich, and G.J. Niemi. 2013. Abrupt prairie-forest transition

across a smooth climate gradient in presettlement Minnesota, USA. Journal of Vegetation

Science 24: 1129-1140.

Fisichelli, N.A., L.E. Frelich, P.B. Reich, and N. Eisenhauer. 2013. Linking direct and indirect

pathways mediating earthworms, deer, and understory composition in Great Lakes forests.

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Biological Invasions 15: 1057-1066.

Fisichelli, N.A., L.E. Frelich and P.B. Reich. 2013. Climate and interrelated tree regeneration

drivers in mixed temperate-boreal forests. Landscape Ecology 28: 149-159.

Loss, S.R., R. Hueffmeier, C.M. Hale, G.E. Host, G. Sjerven, and L.E. Frelich. 2013. Earthworm

invasions in northern hardwoods forests; a rapid assessment method. Natural Areas

Journal 33: 500-509.

Frelich, L.E. and E.J. Ostuno. 2012. Estimating wind speeds of convective storms from tree

damage. Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology 7: 1-19.

Schlaghamersky, J, and L.E. Frelich. 2012. First records of Parergodrilus heideri (Annelida:

“Polychaeta”) from North America. Zootaxa 3498: 81-86.

Fisichelli, N.A., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2012. Sapling growth responses to warmer

temperatures ‘cooled’ by browse pressure. Global Change Biology 18: 3455-3463.

Frelich, L.E., R.O. Peterson, M. Dovciak, P.B. Reich, J.A. Vucetich, and N. Eisenhauer. 2012.

Trophic cascades, invasive species, and body-size hierarchies interactively modulate

climate change responses of ecotonal temperate-boreal forest. Philosophical Transactions

of the Royal Society-B 367: 2955-2961.

Holdsworth, A.R., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2012. Leaf litter disappearance in earthworm-

invaded northern hardwood forests: role of tree species and the chemistry and diversity of

litter. Ecosystems 15: 913-926.

Reich, P.B., L.E. Frelich, R. Voldseth, P. Bakken, and C. Adair. 2012. Understory diversity in

boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability

and heterogeneity. Journal of Ecology,100: 539-545.

Eisenhauer, N., N.A. Fisichelli, L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2012. Interactive effects of global

warming and ‘global worming’ on the germination of native and exotic herbaceous plant

species. Oikos 121: 1121-1133.

Eisenhauer, N., J. Schlaghamersky, P.B. Reich, and L.E. Frelich. 2011. The wave towards a new

steady state: effects of earthworm invasion on soil microbial functions. Biological

Invasions 13: 2191-2196.

Li, G. Y. Liu, L.E. Frelich and S. Sun. 2011. Experimental warming induces degradation of a

Tibetan alpine meadow through trophic interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 659-

667.

Sun, S. and L.E. Frelich. 2011. Flowering phenology and height growth patterns are associated

with maximum plant height, relative growth rate, and stem tissue mass density in

herbaceous grassland species. Journal of Ecology 99: 991-1000.

Salk, T.A., L.E. Frelich, S.Sugita, R. Montgomery, R. Calcote and J.B. Ferrari. 2011. Poor

recruitment is changing the structure and species composition of an old-growth hemlock-

hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 1998-2006.

Carlson, D.J., P.B. Reich, and L.E. Frelich. 2011. Fine-scale heterogeneity in overstory

composition contributes to heterogeneity of wildfire severity in southern boreal forest.

Journal of Forest Research 16: 203-214.

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Danz, N.P., P.B. Reich,. L.E. Frelich, and G.J. Niemi. 2011. Vegetation controls vary across

space and spatial scale in a historic grassland-forest biome boundary. Ecography 32: 402-

414.

McGraw, A.M., R. Moen, G. Wilson, A. Edwards, R. Peterson, L. Cornicelli, M. Schrage, L.

Frelich, M. Lenarz, and D. Becker. 2010. An Advisory committee process to plan moose

management in Minnesota. Alces 46: 189-200.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 2010. Will environmental changes reinforce the impact of global

warming on the prairie-forest border of central North America? Frontiers in Ecology and

Environment 8: 371-378. DOI: 10.1890/080191.

Heimpel, G.E., L.E. Frelich, D.A. Landis, K.R. Hopper, K. Hoelmer, Z. Sezen, M.K. Asplen, and

K. Wu. 2010. European buckthorn and Asian soybean aphid as part of an extensive

invasional meltdown in North America. Biological Invasions 12: 2913-2931.

Larson, E., L.E. Frelich, P.B. Reich, C.M. Hale, and K. Kipfmueller. 2010. Tree rings detect

earthworm invasions and their effects in northern hardwood forests. Biological Invasions

12: 1053-1066.

Rich, R.L., L.E. Frelich, P.B. Reich, and M.E. Bauer. 2009. Coupling high-resolution satellite

imagery and field data to predict forest blowdown across a gradient of disturbance severity.

Remote Sensing of Environment 114: 299-308.

Burton, J.I., L.E. Frelich and E.K. Zenner. 2009. Patterns of plant community structure within

and among primary and second-growth northern hardwood forest stands. Forest Ecology

and Management 258: 2556-2568.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 2009. Wilderness conservation in an era of global warming and

invasive species: a case study from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Natural Areas Journal 29: 385-393.

Galatowitsch, S., Frelich, L.E., and L. Phillips-Mao. 2009. Regional climate change adaptation

strategies for biodiversity conservation in a midcontinental region of North America.

Biological Conservation 142: 2012-2022.

Holdsworth, A., P.B. Reich, and L.E. Frelich. 2008. Litter decomposition in earthworm-invaded

northern hardwood forests: role of invasion degree and litter chemistry. Ecoscience 15:

536-544.

Benedict, M.A., and L.E. Frelich. 2008. Site factors and black ash tree-ring growth in northern

Minnesota. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3489-3493.

Burton, J.I., L.E. Frelich and E.K. Zenner. 2008. Frost crack incidence in northern hardwood

forests of the southern boreal north temperate transition zone. Northern Journal of Applied

Forestry 25:133-138.

Hale, C. M., L.E. Frelich, P.B. Reich, and John Pastor. 2008. Exotic earthworm effects on

hardwood forest floor, nutrient availability, and native plants: a mesocosm study.

Oecologia 155: 509-518.

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Peck, J.E., H.M. Hoganson, P.S. Muir, A.R. Ek, and L.E. Frelich. 2008. Using Inventory

Projections to evaluate management options for the nontimber forest product of epiphytic

moss. Forest Science 54: 185-194.

Peck, J.E. and L.E. Frelich. 2008. Moss harvest truncates the successional development of

epiphytic bryophytes in the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Applications, 18: 146-158.

Rich, R.L., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2007. Wind-throw mortality in the southern boreal

forest: effects of species, diameter and stand age. Journal of Ecology, 95: 1261-1273.

Holdsworth, A.R., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2007. Effects of earthworm invasion on plant

species richness in northern hardwood forests. Conservation Biology, 21: 997-1008.

Holdsworth, A.R., P.B. Reich, and L.E. Frelich. 2007. Regional extent of an ecosystem engineer:

earthworm invasion in northern hardwood forests. Ecological Applications, 17:1666-1677.

Hale, C.M., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2006. Changes in cold-temperate forest understory

plant communities in response to invasion by European earthworms. Ecology 87: 1637-

1649.

Frelich, L.E., C.M. Hale, S. Scheu, A.Holdsworth, L.Heneghan, P.J. Bohlen, and P.B. Reich.

2006. Earthworm invasion into previously earthworm-free temperate and boreal forests.

Biological invasions 8: 1235-1245.

Frelich, L.E., M.W. Cornett, and M.A. White. 2005. Controls and reference conditions in

forestry: The role of old growth and retrospective studies. Journal of Forestry: 103, 339-

344.

Hale, C. M., L. E. Frelich, P.B. Reich. 2005. Effects of European earthworm invasion on soil

characteristics in northern hardwood forests of Minnesota, U.S.A. Ecosystems 8: 911-927.

Hale, C. M., L. E. Frelich, P.B. Reich. 2005. Exotic European earthworm invasion dynamics in

northern hardwood forests of Minnesota, U.S.A. Ecological Applications 15: 848-860.

Dovciak, M., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2005. Pathways in old field succession to white pine:

seed rain, shade and climate effects. Ecological Monographs 75:363-378.

Weyenberg, S.A, L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2004. Logging versus fire: how does disturbance

type influence the abundance of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) regeneration? Silva

Fennica 38:179-194.

Mehta, S., L. E. Frelich, M. T. Jones, and J. Manolis. 2004 . Examining the effects of alternative

management strategies on landscape-scale forest patterns in northeastern Minnesota using

LANDIS. Ecological Modelling 180: 73-87.

Hale, C. M., L.E. Frelich and P.B. Reich. 2004. Allometric equations for estimation of ash-free

dry mass from length measurements for selected European earthworm species

(Lumbricidae) in the western Great Lakes region. American Midland Naturalist: 151(1):

179-185.

Dovciak, M., P.B. Reich, and L.E. Frelich. 2003. Seed rain, safe sites, competing vegetation, and

soil resources spatially structure white pine regeneration and recruitment. Canadian

Journal of Forest Research, 33:1892-1904.

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Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 2003. Perspectives on development of definitions and values related

to old-growth forests. Environmental Reviews 11: S9-S22.

Frelich, L.E., J-L. Machado, and P.B. Reich. 2003. Fine-scale environmental variation and

structure of understorey plant communities in two old-growth pine forests. Journal of

Ecology 91: 283-293.

Freidman, S.K., P.B. Reich, and L.E. Frelich. 2001. Multiple scale composition and spatial

patterns of the northeastern Minnesota presettlement forest. Journal of Ecology 89: 538-

554.

Reich, P.B., P.Bakken, D.Carlson, L.E. Frelich, S.K. Friedman, and D. Grigal. 2001. Influence

of logging and fire on boreal forest biodiversity and productivity. Ecology 82: 2731-2748.

Dovciak, M., L.E. Frelich, & P.B. Reich. 2001. Discordance in spatial patterns of white pine

(Pinus strobus) size-classes in a patchy near-boreal forest. Journal of Ecology 89: 280-291.

Cornett, M.W., K.J. Puettmann, L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2001. Comparing the importance

of seedbed and canopy type in the restoration of upland Thuja occidentalis forests of

northeastern Minnesota. Restoration Ecology, 9: 386-396.

Cornett, M.W., P.B. Reich, K.J. Puettmann, and L.E. Frelich. 2000. Seedbed and moisture

availability determine safe sites for early Thuja occidentalis (Cupressaceae) regeneration.

American Journal of Botany, 87: 1807-1814.

Cornett, M.W., L.E. Frelich, K.J. Puettmann, and P.B. Reich. 2000. Conservation implications of

browsing by Odcoileus virginianus in remnant upland Thuja occidentalis forests.

Biological Conservation 93: 359-369.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 1999. Neighborhood effects, disturbance severity and community

stability in forests. Ecosystems 2: 151-166.

Romme, W., E.H. Everham, L.E. Frelich, M.A. Moritz, and R.E. Sparks. 1999. Are large

infrequent disturbances qualitatively different from small frequent disturbances?

Ecosystems 1: 524-534.

Frelich, L.E., and P.B. Reich. 1998. Disturbance severity and threshold responses in the boreal

forest. Conservation Ecology [aka Ecology and Society, online]2(2):7. URL:

http://www.consecol.org/vol2/iss2/art7/

Augustine, D., L.E. Frelich and P.A. Jordan. 1998. Evidence for development of alternative

communities in an ungulate grazing system. Ecological Applications 8: 1260-1269.

Augustine, D., and L.E. Frelich. 1998. White-tailed deer impacts on populations of an

understory forb in fragmented deciduous forests. Conservation Biology 12: 995-1004.

Frelich, L.E., P.B. Reich, S. Sugita, M.B. Davis, and S.K. Friedman. 1998. Neighborhood effects

in forests: Implications for within stand patch structure and management. Journal of

Ecology: 86: 149-162.

Lorimer, C.G. and L.E. Frelich. 1998. A structural alternative to chronosequence analysis for

uneven-aged northern hardwood forests. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 6: 347-366.

Tester, J., A. Starfield, and L.E. Frelich. 1997. Modeling for ecosystem management in

Minnesota pine forests. Biological Conservation 80: 313-324.

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Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 1995. Neighborhood effects, disturbance, and succession in forests

of the Western Great Lakes Region. Ecoscience 2: 148-158.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 1995. Spatial patterns and succession in a Minnesota southern-

boreal forest. Ecological Monographs 65:325-346.

Frelich, L.E. 1995. Old forest in the Lake States today and before European settlement.

Natural Areas Journal 15: 157-167.

Frelich, L.E., and L.J. Graumlich. 1994. Age class distribution and spatial patterns in an old-

growth hemlock-hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24:1939-1947.

Lorimer, C.G. and L.E. Frelich. 1994. Disturbance and eastern old growth. Journal of Forestry

92:33-38.

Frelich, L.E., R.R. Calcote, M.B. Davis and J. Pastor. 1993. Patch formation and maintenance in

an old growth hemlock-hardwood forest. Ecology 74: 513-527.

Lorimer, C.G., L.E. Frelich, and E.V. Nordheim. 1992. Forest-tree growth rates and probability

of gap origin--a reply to Clark. Ecology 73: 1124-1128.

Frelich, L.E. and C.G. Lorimer. 1991. A simulation of landscape dynamics in old-growth

northern hardwood forests. Journal of Ecology 79: 223-233.

Frelich, L.E. and C.G. Lorimer. 1991. Natural disturbance regimes in hemlock-hardwood forests

of the Upper Great Lakes Region. Ecological Monographs 61:145-164.

Bockheim, J.G., J.E. Leide, and L.E. Frelich. 1989. Red pine growth and chemical composition

of foliage and forest floors across a precipitation-chemistry gradient in Wisconsin.

Canadian Journal of Forest Research 19:1543-1549.

Lorimer, C.G. and L.E. Frelich. 1989. A methodology for estimating canopy disturbance

frequency and intensity in dense temperate forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research

19:651-663.

Frelich, L.E., J.G. Bockheim and J.E. Leide. 1989. Historical trends in tree-ring growth and

chemistry across an air-quality gradient in Wisconsin. Canadian Journal of Forest

Research 19:113-121

Lorimer, C.G., L.E. Frelich, and E.V. Nordheim. 1988. Estimating gap origin probabilities for

canopy trees. Ecology 69:778-785.

Frelich, L.E. and G.L. Martin. 1988. Effects of crown expansion into gaps on evaluation of

disturbance intensity in northern hardwood forests. Forest Science 34:530-536.

Frelich, L.E. and C.G. Lorimer. 1985. Current and predicted long-term effects of deer browsing

in hemlock forests in Michigan, USA. Biological Conservation 34:99-120.

Lorimer, C.G. and L.E. Frelich. 1984. A simulation of equilibrium diameter distributions of

sugar maple (Acer saccharum). Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club 111:193-199.

Manuscripts—submitted and planned submission in near future

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Anoszko, E., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. How do multiple disturbances shape the diversity-

severity relationship in recently disturbed boreal forests? Planned submission: Oikos.

Anoszko, E., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich Interactions between seasonal timing of fire and fire

severity create alternate successional pathways in the southern boreal forest. Planned

submission: Fire Ecology.

Anoszko, E., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. Rapid shifts in community composition and strong

successional convergence following multiple disturbances in the southern boreal forest.

Planned submission: Ecography.

Chaffin, D. and L.E. Frelich. Campsites as Epicenters of Earthworm Invasion in the Boundary

Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (U.S.A).

Chaffin, D. and L.E. Frelich. Climate change and future forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe

Area Wilderness: a landscape-scale assessment of understory regeneration trends.

Chaffin, D. and L.E. Frelich. Northern Temperate Deciduous Tree Seed Source Abundance and

Spatial Distribution in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (U.S.A).

Frelich, L.E., C.G. Lorimer, A. M. Fenwick, C. Cogbill, and M.C. Stambaugh. 2020. Chapter

History and future of fire in northern hardwood and conifer forests of the Northeastern

U.S., Chapter VIII in C.H. Greenberg and B. Collind, Editors: Fire Ecology and

Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems. New York, Springer.

Frelich, L.E., J. Stanturf, J. Janssons, F. Vodde and K. Jõgiste. Is the secondary (novel) forest

ready for climate change and new disturbance regime: ecosystem legacy analysis. Forests

special issue, in Prep.

Polychenko, O., F. Vodde, L.E. Frelich, M. Metslaid, E. Shorohova, E. Baders, K. Köster, M.

Seedre and K. Jõgiste. Surviving Canopy Trees after Windthrows in Boreal and

Hemiboreal Forest: Their Conditions and Vulnerability. In Prep.

Larson, E.R., K.F. Kipfmueller and L.E. Frelich. The Relative Importance of Climate,

Disturbance, and Fire Suppression in Driving Patterns of Succession in Whitebark Pine

Communities. Planned submission: Ecological Monographs.

Larson, E.R., T. Wilding, R.M. Hueffmeier, K.F. Kipfmueller, C.M. Hale, L.E. Frelich, and P.B.

Reich. Invasive earthworms reduce productivity and amplify drought sensitivity in sugar

maple trees of the Great Lakes region. Planned submission: Plos One.

Ojanen, P. and L.E. Frelich. Earthworm invasion and alternate understory plant communities in

northern hardwood forests. Planned submission, Natural Areas Journal.

Roth, A.M., A. G. Lodge, T.J.S. Whitfeld, L. E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. Inter trophic co-

facilitation increases the success of invasive earthworms and common buckthorn in North

American temperate forests.

Roth, A.M., A. G. Lodge, T.J.S. Whitfeld, L. E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. A scientific approach to

restoration: effects of three buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) removal techniques on the

regeneration of understory vegetation.

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Stanturf, John A., L.E. Frelich, Timo Kuuluvainen, and Pablo Donoso. 2019. Advances in

Managing and Monitoring Natural Hazards and Forest Disturbances. Chapter in upcoming

book: Achieving sustainable forestry of boreal and temperate forests. Cambridge England:

Burleigh-Dodds Science Publishing.

Toot, Ryan, and L.E. Frelich. 2019. A community and successional analysis of bur oak (Quercus

macrocarpa). Planned submission: Forests.

Toot, Ryan, L.E. Frelich, E. Butler and P.B. Reich. 2019. Climate-biome envelope shifts create

novel conservation opportunities. Planned submission: Diversity and Distributions.

Wackett, A., K.Yoo, E.K. Cameron, N.A. Jelinski, N. Looker, C. Olid, L.E. Frelich, and J.

Klaminder. The earth moved: Emergence of a new carbon balance and mineral controls

on carbon cycling following human-facilitated earthworm invasion in high latitude

biomes. Planned submission: Global Change Biology.

Books and book chapters

Frelich, L.E. 2019. Boreal and taiga biome. A chapter in D.A. DellaSala, Editor, Encylcopedia of

the World’s Biomes, Elsevier.

Frelich, L.E., J.A. Stanturf, Kristi Parro, Endijs Baders, Kalev Jõgiste. 2018. Natural

disturbances and forest management: interacting patterns on the landscape. Pages 221-248

In, Perera, A.H., Peterson, U., Pastur, G., Iverson, L.R., Editors, Ecosystem services from

forest landscapes, Broadscale considerations. New York: Springer.

MacDonald, John B. and L.E. Frelich. 2016. Project Ark: Awaken from extinction. A novel

available at Amazon.com. Book website: http://www.projectarkbook.com/

Frelich, L.E., R. Montgomery, and J. Oleksyn. 2015. Northern Temperate Forest. Chapter 3,

pages 30-45, In, K. Peh, R. Corlett and Y. Bergeron, Editors. Handbook of Forest Ecology,

Routledge Press.

Montgomery, R. and L.E. Frelich. 2015. Forest succession and gap dynamics. Chapter 10, pages

141-153, In, K. Peh, R. Corlett and Y. Bergeron, Editors. Handbook of Forest Ecology,

Routledge Press.

Frelich, L.E. et al. 2006. Earthworm invasion into previously earthworm-free temperate and

boreal forests. Pages 35-45 in: P.F. Hendrix, Editor, Biological invasions belowground:

earthworms as invasive species. Springer, The Netherlands.

Frelich, L.E. 2002. Forest Dynamics and disturbance regimes. Cambridge University Press,

Cambridge, England.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 2002. Dynamics of old-growth oak forests. Pages 113-126 in,

W.J. McShea and W.H. Healy, editors: The ecology and management of oaks for wildlife.

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Frelich, L.E. and K. Puettmann. 1999. Restoration Ecology. Pages 498-524 in, M.L Hunter, Jr.,

Editor, Maintaining biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Cambridge University Press,

Cambridge, England.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 1996. Old growth in the Great Lakes Region. Chapter 11, pages

144-160, in Mary B. Davis, editor: Eastern Old Growth. Island Press, Washington, DC,

USA.

Davis, M.B., S. Sugita, R.R. Calcote, J.B. Ferrari, and L.E. Frelich (Peer reviewed). 1994.

Historical Development of alternate communities in a hemlock-hardwood forest in

Michigan, USA. Pages 19-39 In: Large-scale Ecology and Conservation Biology. R.May,

N.Webb, and P.Edwards, Editors. Blackwell, Oxford, England.

Davis, M.B., S. Sugita, R.R. Calcote, and L.E. Frelich. 1992. Effects of invasion by Tsuga

Canadensis on a North American forest ecosystem. Pages 34-44 In: A. Teller, P.Mathy and

J.N.R. Jeffers, Editors. Responses of forest ecosystems to environmental changes, Elsevier

Applied Science, New York, New York, USA.

Book reviews and Post-publication peer reviews

Frelich, L.E. 2010-2018. Faculty of 1000, 51 reviews published to date.

Frelich, L.E. 2012. Disturbance at the center of ecology and human lives, book Review of “The

biology of disturbed habitats”, by Lawrence R. Walker, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Bioscience 62: 924-925.

Frelich, L.E. 2009. Book review of “The vanishing present: Wisconsin’s changing lands, water,

and wildlife”. Edited by D.M. Waller and T.P. Rooney. University of Chicago Press. The

Quarterly Review of Biology 84: 293.

Frelich, L.E. 1996. Book review of “The Ecology of Fire”, by R.J. Whelan. Ecoscience 3:244-

245.

Research reports, news articles, encyclopedia articles, staff papers, environmental impact

statements, etc. (including selected popular articles, 17 additional items not listed here).

Frelich, L.E. 2019. Loring Pond Ecology. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 22-2.

Frelich, L.E. 2019. The polar vortex, emerald ash borer and future of ash trees. Friends of Loring

Park Newsletter 22-1.

Frelich L.E. 2018. Native plants in Loring Park’s woodland circle. Friends of Loring Park

Newsletter 21-2.

Frelich, L.E. and Ryan Toot. 2018. Accelarated migration of bur oak ecotypes for climate

resilience. Legislative Citizens Commission on Minnesota Resources, Final Report, July

2018.

Frelich, L.E. 2018. Old growth landscapes: hemlock-hardwood forests of the Porcupine

Mountains and Sylvania. Minnesota Plant Press.

Frelich, L.E. 2018. Canada thistle, an invasive plant. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 21-1.

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Frelich, L.E. 2017. How Earthworms Will Magnify the Effects of Climate Change on Wisconsin

Forests, Peninsula Pulse, October 19, 2017.

Frelich, L.E. 2017. The science of climate change—part II, alternative futures. Friends of Loring

Park Newsletter 20-2.

Frelich, L.E. and L. Van Riper. 2017. Jumping worms in Minnesota. University of Minnesota

Extension, Yard and Garden Newsletter. June 2017. http://blog-yard-garden-

news.extension.umn.edu/2017/06/jumping-worms-in-minnesota.html

Frelich, L.E. 2017. The science of climate change—part 1, the basics. Friends of Loring Park

Newsletter 20-1.

Frelich, L.E. 2017. Are these the last days for Door County’s boreal forests? Peninsula Pulse,

Door County WI. February 17, 2017.

Frelich, L.E. 2017. Climate change on the Minnesota North Shore. Lake Superior Angler

(Annual magazine of the Lake Superior Steelhead Association), pages 20-24.

Frelich, L.E. 2016. Trees of Loring Park: Climate change, tree ranges, and neonative species.

Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 19-2.

Frelich L.E. 2016. Trees of Loring Park: Swamp white oak. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter

19-1.

Frelich, L.E., P.B. Reich, and D.W. Peterson. 2015. Fire in upper Midwestern oak forest

ecosystems: an oak forest restoration and management handbook. USDA Forest Service,

Pacific Northwest Research Station, General Technical Report PNW-GTR-914.

Frelich, L.E. 2015. Clean energy opportunity. Op-ed, St.Paul Pioneer Press, 9-8-2015.

Frelich L.E. 2015. What will happen to our boreal forests? Peninsula Pulse, Door County WI.

July 17, 2015.

Frelich L.E. 2015. Trees of Loring Park: The Big Woods. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 18-

2.

Frelich, L.E. 2014. How to become a forest ecologist in only 40 years. Bulletin of the Ecological

Society of America 95: 207-210.

Frelich, L.E. 2014. Winter cold injury to trees. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 17-2.

Frelich, L.E. 2014. Understanding our changing forests. Minnesota, 113(4), 24-25.

Frelich L.E. 2013. The roots of storm damage. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 16-2.

Frelich, L.E. 2012. Ecology of the urban tree canopy. Friends of Loring Park Newsletter 15-2.

Frelich, L.E. and A.R. Ek, J.N. Zobel, and K.M. Paige. 2012. Forest wildlife habitat description

and data for Minnesota species. Staff Paper Series No. 219. Department of Forest

Resources, St.Paul, MN.

Bragg, D.C., Frelich, L.E., R.T. Leverett, W. Blozan and D.J. Luthringer. 2011. The sine method:

an alternative height measurement technique. USDA Forest Service Research Note SRS-22.

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Moen, R., R.A. Peterson, S. Windels, L.E. Frelich, and D.R. Becker, M. Johnson. 2011.

Minnesota moose status: progress on Moose Advisory Committee recommendations. NRRI

Technical Report NRRI/TR 2011-41.

Frelich, L.E. 2010. Trees of Loring Park: Native oak Savannah. Friends of Loring Park

Newsletter 13-3.

Galatowitsch, S., L.E. Frelich and L. Phillips-Mao. 2009. Coping with climate change:

conservation planning in Minnesota. CURA Reporter 39:3-10. Center for Urban and

Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Frelich, L.E. 2008. Bicknell’s Geranium. Minnesota Conservation Volunteer 71, No. 418, 72-73.

Kilgore, M.A, A.R. EK, K.A. Buhr, L.E. Frelich, J.M. Hanowski, C.M. Hibbard, A.O. Finley,

L.C. Rathbun, N.P. Danz, J.W. Lind, and G.J. Niemi. 2005. Minnesota timber harvesting

GEIS: An assessment of the first 10 years. Staff Paper Series No. 182. University of

Minnesota Department of Forest Resources.

Superior National Forest, USDA, Forest Service. 2001. Final Environmental Impact Statement,

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Fuel Treatments. Frelich wrote much of the

Vegetation section of the EIS as a subcontractor with Foster-Wheeler Environmental, Inc.

Frelich, L.E. and P.B. Reich. 2001. Fire ecology, Forest, boreal, and Forest, temperate (3

articles). Macmillan Reference USA, Biology for Students.

Reich, P.B. and L.E. Frelich. 2001. Temperate deciduous forests. Encyclopedia of Global

Change. Macmillan Reference USA, Biology for Students.

Frelich, L.E. 2000. A preliminary ecological assessment of the July 4th blowdown in the

BWCAW. A background paper for the USDA Forest Service, Superior National Forest.

Frelich, L.E. 1999. Range of variability in forest structure for the Northern Superior Uplands. A

background paper for the forest planning process for Superior National Forest, Minnesota.

Frelich, L.E. 1999. Natural variability of forested ecosystems in northern Minnesota. A

background paper for the forest planning process for Superior and Chippewa National

Forests, Minnesota.

White Pine Regeneration Strategies Work Group. 1996. Minnesota’s White Pine--Now and for

the Future. A Report to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. (Written by a

group of 14, including L.E. Frelich).

Jaakko Pöyry Consulting, Inc. 1994. Generic Environmental Impact Statement study on timber

harvesting and forest management in Minnesota. 500+ pages. (L.E. Frelich co-authored the

document as part of the 4-member GEIS core group. The document was peer reviewed).

Frelich, L.E. 1993. Fire policy in the BWCAW: discussion of some ecological issues. BWCA

Wilderness News, Autumn 1993: 6-7.

Jaakko Pöyry Consulting, Inc. 1992a. Forest Wildlife: A technical paper for a generic

environmental impact statement on timber harvesting and forest management in

Minnesota. 210 pp. (L.E. Frelich provided technical editing and co-authored the document

as part of a 5-member study team, document was peer reviewed).

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Jaakko Pöyry Consulting, Inc. 1992b. Biodiversity: A technical paper for a generic

environmental impact statement on timber harvesting and forest management in

Minnesota. 111 pp. (L.E. Frelich authored the document which was peer reviewed).

Jaakko Pöyry Consulting, Inc. 1992c. Global Atmospheric Change: A technical paper for a

generic environmental impact statement on timber harvesting and forest management in

Minnesota. 30 pp. (L.E. Frelich authored the document).

Frelich, L.E. 1992. Predicting dimensional relationships for Twin Cities shade trees.

Miscellaneous publication of the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources.

Frelich, L.E. 1992. The relationship of natural disturbances to white pine stand development.

Pages 27-37 In: White Pine Symposium Proceedings: History, Ecology, Policy and

Management. Eds. R. A. Stine and M.J. Baughman. St Paul, MN: Department of Forest

Resources, College of Natural Resources and Minnesota Extension Service.

Phillips, M. (Editor). 1991. Carbon dioxide budgets in Minnesota and recommendations on

reducing net emissions with trees. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division

of Forestry, St.Paul, MN, USA. 89 pages. (L.E. Frelich contributed about 12 pages of

material on carbons pools of Minnesota and carbon fixation over time by shade trees and

forest plantation).

Frelich, L.E. 1979. Vascular plants of Newport State Park, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Department of

Natural Resources Research Report 100. 34 pp.