Increase in hemlock forest offsetting effect of invasive hemlock woolly adelgid for now
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 12:22
in Earth & Climate
In many regions, particularly in the southern Appalachians, the loss of hemlock to hemlock woolly adelgid has been devastating. However, when Forest Service scientists used regional Forest Inventory & Analysis data to get a big picture view of the status of hemlock in the eastern US, the results surprised them.