Current Research

Silvicultural strategies for American chestnut reintroduction

Importance of site quality to long-term growth, survival and blight-resistance of backcross American chestnut

Use of American elm in mixed species plantings to restore degraded riparian ecosystems

Restoration of American elm through breeding

Artificial regeneration of northern red oak on xeric sites: effects of family and seedling quality

Research Interests

Restoration of iconic tree species

Biotic and abiotic factors affecting planted seedling establishment success

Education

• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Phd Natural Resources 2011
• Master of Forestry, Yale School Of Forestry And Environmental Studies Forest Management 2008
• Oberlin College, Bachelor Of Arts Biology 2003

Professional Organizations

• Society of American Foresters, Ohio Chapter, Science Advisor (2016 - )
• Forest Stewards Guild, Member Of The Membership And Policy Council (2012 - )
• Society of American Foresters (SAF), Member (2005 - )
• The American Chestnut Foundation, Member (2004 - )

Featured Publications & Products

• Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Clark, Stacy L.; Saxton, Arnold M.; Sharp, Ami M.; Schweitzer, Callie J.; Hebard, Frederick V. 2017. Growth, survival, and competitive ability of chestnut (Castanea Mill.) seedlings planted across a gradient of light levels.
• Pinchot, Cornelia ; Hall, Thomas ; Saxton, Arnold ; Schlarbaum, Scott ; Bailey, James . 2018. Effects of Seedling Quality and Family on Performance of Northern Red Oak Seedlings on a Xeric Upland Site.
• Clark, Stacy L.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Anagnostakis, Sandra L.; Saunders, Michael R.; Thomas-Van Gundy, Melissa; Schaberg, Paul; McKenna, James; Bard, Jane F.; Berrang, Paul C.; Casey, David M.; Casey, Chris E.; Crane, Barbara; Jackson, Brian D.; Kochenderfer, Jeff D.; MacFarlane, Russ; Makowske, Robert; Miller, Mark D.; Rodrigue, Jason A.; Stelick, Jim; Thornton, Christopher D.; Williamson, Tyler S. 2014. Reintroduction of American Chestnut in the National Forest System.
• Pinchot, Cornelia; Clark, Stacy; Schlarbaum, Scott; Saxton, Arnold; Sung, Shi-Jean; Hebard, Frederick. 2015. Effects of temporal dynamics, nut weight and nut size on growth of American chestnut, Chinese chestnut and backcross generations in a commercial nursery.
• Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Saxton, Arnold M.; Clark, Stacy L.; Schweitzer, Callie J.; Smith, David R.; Mangini, Alex; Hebard, Frederick V. 2011. Incidence of Craesus castaneae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) on Chestnut Seedlings Planted in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky.

Publications

• Flower, Charles E.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Knight, Kathleen S.; Woeste, Keith ; Slavicek, James M. 2020. Back from the Brink: Forest Service Efforts to Create Dutch Elm Disease Tolerant Trees for Use in Urban and Rural Restoration.
• Clark, Stacy L.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Crane, Barbara S.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Schaberg, Paul G.; Thomas-Van Gundy, Melissa . 2020. Restoration of the American chestnut will require more than a blight-resistant tree.
• Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Royo, Alejandro A.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Peters, Matthew P.; Sharp, Ami M.; Anagnostakis, Sandra L. 2020. The effect of site quality on performance of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) seedlings bred for blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) resistance.
• Pinchot, Cornelia ; Schlarbaum, Scott ; Tepke, Scott . 2020. Using oak silviculture to reintroduce American chestnut.
• Morgan, Quinn ; Johnstone-Yellin, Tamara L.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Peters, Matthew ; Royo, Alejandro A. 2019. Partitioning and predicting forage biomass from total aboveground biomass of regenerating tree species using dimensional analyses.
• Royo, Alejandro A.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Stanovick, John S.; Stout, Susan L. 2019. Timing is Not Everything: Assessing the Efficacy of Pre- Versus Post-Harvest Herbicide Applications in Mitigating the Burgeoning Birch Phenomenon in Regenerating Hardwood Stands.
• Knight, Kathleen S.; Haugen, Linda M.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Schaberg, Paul G.; Slavicek, James M. 2017. American elm (Ulmus americana) in restoration plantings: a review.
• Flower, Charles E.; Slavicek, James M.; Lesser, Dale; Eshita, Steven; Pinchot, Cornelia C. 2017. Canopy decline assessment in American elm after inoculation with different doses of Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi.
• Pinchot, C.C.; Flower, C.E.; Knight, K.S.; Marks, C.; Minocha, R.; Lesser, D.; Woeste, K.; Schaberg, P.G.; Baldwin, B.; Delatte, D.M.; Fox, T.D.; Hayes-Plazolles, N.; Held, B.; Lehtoma, K.; Long, S.; Mattix, S.; Sipes, A.; Slavicek, J.M. 2017. Development of new Dutch Elm disease-tolerant selections for restoration of the American Elm in urban and forested landscapes.
• Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Hall, Thomas J.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Saxton, Arnold M.; Bailey, James. 2017. Establishing northern red oak on a degraded upland site in northeastern Pennsylvania: Influence of seedling pedigree and quality.
• Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Knight, Kathleen S.; Haugen, Linda M.; Flower, Charles E.; Slavicek, James M., eds. 2017. Proceedings of the American elm restoration workshop 2016.
• Flower, Charles E.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Slavicek, James M. 2017. Restoring ecosystem resilience to urban forests using Dutch elm disease-tolerant American elm trees.
• Pinchot, Leila. 2014. American chestnut: A test case for genetic engineering.
• Anagnostakis, S.L.; Pinchot, C.C. 2014. Restoration of chestnuts as a timber crop in Connecticut.
• Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Schlarbaum, Scott E.; Franklin, Jennifer A.; Buckley, David S.; Clark, Stacy L.; Schweitzer, Callie J.; Saxton, Arnold M.; Hebard, Frederick V. 2012. Early results of a chestnut planting in eastern Kentucky illustrate reintroduction challenges.

Research Highlights

Highlight	Title	Year
NRS-2015-119	An American Chestnut Hybrid May Survive in Nature if Properly Situated A team of scientists from the Forest Service, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is ...	2015
NRS-2016-152	Elm Disease Resistance Research Gets a Boost Great news for disease-tolerant American elm! A grant from The Manton Foundation has provided the Forest Service’s Northern Research Station w ...	2016
NRS-2017-79	Forest Service moves American elm tree a big step closer to landscape restoration Over the past several decades, mature American elm trees have virtually disappeared from city streets and eastern forests as a result of Dutch e ...	2017
NRS-2017-62	Forest Service scientists develop a cold-hardy American elm tree Dutch elm disease largely eradicated mature elm trees from the eastern U.S. in the 1900s. Forest Service scientists are working to create site-a ...	2017
NRS-2016-146	Getting Reacquainted with an Old Friend Forest Service scientists investigate site factors that will boost success rates in hybrid American chestnut plantings in forests. This will hel ...	2016
NRS-2017-67	Reintroducing the American chestnut tree begins with getting the light right As efforts to breed a blight-resistant American chestnut tree progress, the Forest Service and its partners are researching how to reintroduce t ...	2017