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Earth & Environment - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 16:19 - 0 Comments
Future Forests: Beyond 2200
Unlike managing agricultural systems, which can adapt to change quickly, “with a forest, the lifespan is 100, 200 years, so once you do something it’s longer term. We need to be making policies now that will affect our forests hundreds of years from now,” says researcher George Gertner. (Courtesy: iStockphoto)
U. ILLINOIS—The composition of some U.S. forests might be quite different 200 to 400 years from today, a new study suggests. Continue…
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