Three University of B.C. professors have received $627,000 for research projects related to sustainable forest management -- including a look at the effects of rising water tables in dying pine forests. The non-profit Sustainable Forest Management Network has given $196,500 to Bruce Larson, Forest Renewal B.C. chair of silviculture, $241,000 to Paul McFarlane, head of the department of wood science, and $190,000 to Dan Moore, Forest Renewal B.C. chair of forest hydrology. Moore's group intends to look at the effects of major disturbances -- such as the mountain pine beetle infestation -- on forest hydrology. Specifically, they'll examine changes in the way water moves through the landscape once the trees are dead or gone. Source.