The Research Program at the Preserve is designed to utilize and expand upon Dr. Kudish’s four decades of studies. Current studies include but are not limited to:
Updating Preserve maps and flora inventory; history of the forest above the upper pasture limit, including earlier loggings; bryophyte and fungi index; biological and zoological surveys.
Why some Catskills summits have fir caps while adjacent peaks are all-hardwoods.
The effects of American Indians in the East Branch Delaware Valley may have been far greater than originally thought, especially in the burning of forests.
Why the geological basins in which bogs formed are all the same age, yet the age of the peat at the bottom of them varies so widely.
The re-creation of the forest history of the Catskill Mountains since the end of the last Ice Age.
