How will shifting climate change US forests?
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 07:20
in Earth & Climate
One foggy spring morning just after a hard rain, Park Williams was tromping through the woods deep in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains. Toiling down a steep slope, he supposedly was keeping a simultaneous eye out for rattlesnakes, copperheads, poison ivy and big old trees. Williams seemed mostly focused on the trees, though; attention to the other stuff was just slowing him down. Williams studies how forests react to changes in climate, and the Ozarks' deeply dissected hills and hollers are a kind of ground zero for this.