@article{parajuli_chizmar_megalos_bardon_2020, title={Educating Landowners on Forest-Based Alternative Income Streams in North Carolina: Program Evaluation and Lessons Learned}, volume={118}, ISSN={["1938-3746"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvaa037}, DOI={10.1093/jofore/fvaa037}, abstractNote={
 
 
 Forest-based payments for ecosystem services markets have grown considerably in recent years. Besides timber products from harvests, forests offer multiple nontimber and intrinsic benefits, which could be important sources of income for landowners. In summer 2019, we organized four region-specific educational workshops all across North Carolina to educate landowners, Extension agents, and natural resource professionals about these alternative forest-based income streams. In this article, we cover the topics included in those workshops, postworkshop evaluation, and lessons learned from those events, which provide useful insights for Extension and outreach professionals in program design and delivery in forest-based payments for ecosystem service markets.
 
 
 
 This article presents the details of a program, postworkshop evaluation, and lessons learned, which serve as useful guidelines for Extension and outreach educators in designing and delivering similar programs in forest-based alternative income streams. Although markets for ecosystem services are improving worldwide along with increasing research and outreach efforts in forest-based intrinsic benefits, results from evaluation surveys suggest that attendees had limited knowledge in forest carbon markets, wetland mitigation banking, and conservation easements in North Carolina. More region-specific Extension and outreach programs highlighting the locally available nontimber market options are recommended all across the country. Similarly, partnerships with other state agencies and institutions in program planning, advertisement, and delivery would improve effectiveness of similar Extension and outreach programs.
}, number={6}, journal={JOURNAL OF FORESTRY}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Parajuli, Rajan and Chizmar, Stephanie and Megalos, Mark and Bardon, Robert}, year={2020}, month={Nov}, pages={551–554} }
 @article{hastings_potter_koch_megalos_jetton_2017, title={Prioritizing conservation seed banking locations for imperiled hemlock species using multi-attribute frontier mapping}, volume={48}, ISSN={0169-4286 1573-5095}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11056-017-9575-7}, DOI={10.1007/s11056-017-9575-7}, number={2}, journal={New Forests}, publisher={Springer Nature}, author={Hastings, John M. and Potter, Kevin M. and Koch, Frank H. and Megalos, Mark and Jetton, Robert M.}, year={2017}, month={Mar}, pages={301–316} }
 @article{morris_megalos_hubbard_boby_2016, title={Climate Change Attitudes of Southern Forestry Professionals: Outreach Implications}, volume={114}, ISSN={["1938-3746"]}, DOI={10.5849/jof.14-148}, abstractNote={Greater climate variability may profoundly impact southern forests, requiring climate-resilient management strategies to sustain them into the future. Foresters design and implement these strategies, and their perspectives on climate change may influence their receptivity to outreach on climate science and adaptation. To effectively engage this audience, communicators such as Extension agents must understand their views. We surveyed southern forestry professionals to address that need, identifying opportunities and obstacles for education about climate-resilient forestry. Demographic characteristics, particularly political ideology, correlated highly with acceptance of climate change. We also found significant relationships between climate change attitudes, experiences, perceptions, and management responses. Foresters who accept climate change are more likely to observe it in the environment, feel concerned about its impacts on forestry, and agree that it will require different management strategies. We explored multiple outreach options and ultimately recommend connecting climate change to forestry by emphasizing forest health and productivity concerns. Management and Policy Implications The scientific literature generally recommends that foresters facilitate climate change adaptation by managing for (1) resistance to the forces of climate change, (2) resilience to climate change to absorb impacts without losing function, (3) responding to climatic transitions to minimize negative impacts, and (4) realigning altered forests to current climatic conditions through restoration (Vose et al. 2012). Specific management actions recommended to help southern forests adapt to climate change, such as thinning to reduce water stress, vary, depending on each site's unique management objectives, stand characteristics, and climate change impacts. This study is not designed to refine the climate-resilient management toolkit, but rather to enhance educators' understanding of foresters' climate change attitudes. The results indicate that demographic characteristics shape climate change attitudes in ways comparable to those for the general public. Further, foresters' climate change attitudes, personal observations, concerns about impacts to forestry, and management actions are closely intertwined. This observation suggests that outreach aimed to implement climate-resilient adaptive management strategies will require a nuanced approach to effectively reach all foresters. We conclude that communicators should avoid emphasizing climate change to doubting foresters and instead lead with potential impacts to forest health and productivity (such as drought and pests), continuing to outline and encourage appropriate management solutions.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF FORESTRY}, author={Morris, Hilary L. C. and Megalos, Mark A. and Hubbard, William G. and Boby, Leslie A.}, year={2016}, month={Sep}, pages={532–540} }
 @inproceedings{bardon_megalos_2009, title={Understanding working forest landowners in North Carolina: Integrating participant survey results in programming and delivery}, booktitle={A Southern Region Conference on Technology Transfer and Extension}, author={Bardon, R. E. and Megalos, M. A.}, year={2009}, pages={149–155} }
 @article{megalos_blank_1998, title={Improving forestry incentives in North Carolina--1996 landowner survey results}, number={1998}, journal={Proceedings of the ... Society of American Foresters National Convention}, author={Megalos, M. A. and Blank, G. B.}, year={1998}, pages={399–400} }
 @book{megalos_frederick_clark_phillips_1986, title={Biomass, nutrient and energy content of Southern Piedmont hardwood forests}, number={5}, journal={Biomass, nutrient and energy content of Southern Piedmont hardwood forests}, publisher={Raleigh: School of Forest Resources, North Carolina State University}, author={Megalos, M. A. and Frederick, D. J. and Clark, A. and Phillips, D. R.}, year={1986}, pages={34} }