JACKSON, Wyo. — A new forest-monitoring site in the Teton Range has been added to an international network of forest plots and research scientists who track long-term tree health over time. A system of six plots in the Teton area is now included in Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network database. Two University of Wyoming (UW) professors, Tucker Furniss and Sara Germain, co-founded the new study site, which was established in 2024 and officially joined the network in 2025. The main plot, 25 hectares on the north shore of Bradley Lake in Grand Teton National Park, consists of “upper-montane, mixed-conifer forest,” says the ForestGEO website. Five smaller plots make up the local network, each one 4 hectares or smaller. …ForestGEO is an initiative managed by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, which established the first site in Panama in 1981. The network is dedicated to the long-term study of trees and forests around the world.