{"id":91829,"date":"2021-07-16T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=91829"},"modified":"2021-07-16T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:57:40","slug":"urban-forester-finds-love-of-nature-at-umw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/urban-forester-finds-love-of-nature-at-umw\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Forester Finds Love of Nature at UMW"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>The 11,000 to 12,000 trees shading the streets and parks of Lynchburg, Virginia, are a lot to keep up with. But&nbsp;Sarah Hagan, a 2011 University of Mary Washington graduate, has charge of them all, from roots to crowns.<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_91831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91831\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"91831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/urban-forester-finds-love-of-nature-at-umw\/urbanforester\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"465,620\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"1\"}' data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sarah Hagan, an urban forester in Lynchburg, Virginia, discovered her passion for science while studying biology at UMW.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-91831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Hagan, an urban forester in Lynchburg, Virginia, discovered her passion for science while studying biology at UMW.\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester-225x300.jpg 225w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester-450x600.jpg 450w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/UrbanForester.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Hagan, an urban forester in Lynchburg, Virginia, discovered her passion for science while studying biology at UMW.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>As Lynchburg&rsquo;s urban forester, Hagan oversees trees individually but also as an interdependent whole &ndash; the urban canopy that keeps the city healthy, vibrant and beautiful. It&rsquo;s an ever-changing responsibility, varying with each season, storm, dry spell and pest. And it&rsquo;s an especially pertinent position today, during National Forest Week, a celebration of America&rsquo;s 193-million-acre system.<\/p><p>Now in her second year with Lynchburg, Hagan has dealt with the inherited problem of the emerald ash-borer, an imported pest devastating the native ash species of the eastern to midwestern United States. Almost all the city&rsquo;s ash trees have had to be removed.<\/p><p>City trees face other stresses as well, from improper planting, poor soil and road salt. Hagan constantly evaluates how long Lynchburg&rsquo;s trees are lasting, how their lives can be extended and how to bolster the overall health and sustainability of the resource. To handle it all she works with Lynchburg&rsquo;s public works department, a contract crew and a corps of citizen volunteers known as tree stewards.<\/p><p>The role seems ideal for a biology major with a passion for botany, hiking and all things outdoors. But getting there involved &ldquo;a lot of zigs and a lot of zags,&rdquo; Hagan said. &ldquo;My 16-year-old self and my 33-year-old self, I think, would find each other amusing.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Growing up in Botetourt County near Roanoke, Hagan was an arts-oriented kid whose physician mother and lawyer father encouraged her musical pursuits. Only after studying music at another Virginia college did she conclude that she wouldn&rsquo;t have a career as an opera singer.<\/p><p>But if not music, what would be a more practical choice?<\/p><p>&ldquo;I had always hated math and science,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;But I decided, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to learn science.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p><p>She researched biology programs and decided to give Mary Washington&rsquo;s highly regarded Department of Biological Sciences a try. Professors including Stephen Fuller, Joella Killian, Andrew Dolby and Deborah O&rsquo;Dell welcomed, challenged and encouraged her.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Mary Washington taught me science,&rdquo; Hagan said. &ldquo;My first semester, I walked into Dr. Fuller&rsquo;s botany class with no idea even how to prep a slide. I fell in love with it. I adored it. I just couldn&rsquo;t get over the miraculous organisms that plants are.&rdquo;<\/p><p>It felt great to succeed in a notoriously difficult class, and it set her on an academic and career path she finds rewarding. &ldquo;I was hooked because plants were just so darn cool, and I wanted more.&rdquo;<\/p><p>And she loved living in Fredericksburg. As an older transfer student, she lived with roommates off campus, developed a great community of friends and sang in the choir of St. George&rsquo;s Episcopal Church. After graduating cum laude from UMW, she worked another three years in the area, chiefly in an Americorps-funded position as volunteer and stewardship coordinator for Friends of the Rappahannock.<\/p><p>As her interest in conservation grew, she applied to graduate school and eventually earned a master&rsquo;s degree in environmental management from Duke University, with a focus on forestry and forest management.<\/p><p>While these days Hagan sings mostly in the shower and the car &ndash; her mother still urges her to join a choir for fun &ndash; she&rsquo;s satisfied with a scientific calling that keeps her outdoors much of the time and contributes to everyone&rsquo;s well-being.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy where I am,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;because I get to do something that&rsquo;s having a positive influence on future generations.&rdquo;<\/p><p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2021\/departments\/urban-forester-finds-love-of-nature-at-umw\/\">story<\/a>, written by Laura Moyer, associate editor of <\/em>University of Mary Washington Magazine<em>, originally appeared in the spring\/summer 2021 issue.&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11,000 to 12,000 trees shading the streets and parks of Lynchburg, Virginia, are a lot to keep up with. 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