Five anthropogenic factors that will radically alter northern forests in 50 years
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 16:40
in Earth & Climate
In the most densely forested and most densely populated quadrant of the United States, forests reflect two centuries of human needs, values and practices. Disturbances associated with those needs, such as logging and clearing forests for agriculture and development, have set the stage for management issues of considerable concern today, a U.S. Forest Service study reports.