Julie Richburg,^1,*,** Genevieve Pugesek<sup>2,3,***

1</sup>The Trustees of Reservations, 100 Main Street, Florence, MA 01062
²Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
³Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706

^*Corresponding author: jrichburg@thetrustees.org; 413-217-0509
^**Julie Richburg, PhD, is the Lead Ecologist for Inland Natural Resources with The Trustees of Reservations in Massachusetts. She oversees the ecological management of nearly 25,000 acres of habitats from northern hardwood and floodplain forests to grasslands and wetlands. Major threats to these habitats include deer overabundance, nonnative invasive plants and insects, and the impacts of climate change. Dr. Richburg has a master's degree and PhD in forest ecology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied the impact of invasive plants and using mechanical and prescribed fire control methods. She is a member of the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group, the Forest Reserve Scientific Advisory Council, and a founding member of the Westfield River Watershed Invasive Species Partnership.
^***Genevieve Pugesek, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current research addresses the impacts of oak savanna and woodland management on pollinators and the flowers they depend on. Dr. Pugesek has a PhD in Biology from Tufts University where she studied the nesting and overwintering ecology of bumble bees in Massachusetts.