Forests
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While the 2017 hurricane season is long since gone, parts of the US that were under its impact are still returning to life. Atlas Obscura has an interesting story (originally published in the Huffington Post) about the reblooming of an ancient ceiba tree on the Island of Vieques off the east coast of Puerto Rico.…
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Here is a neat map which shows the range of tree diversity across the entire earth, as compiled by a combination of ground surveys and satellite scans. You can see many areas where there are no trees at all (deserts, American central plains, Arctic) and other areas where the variety of trees is very diverse.…
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For over 150 years, forest stewardship and farming have been an important part of African American history. Following the Civil War, many African American families took to the land to seek their future. By 1910, black landowners had accumulated 15 million acres across the US South and by the 1920s, 14% of all farms in…
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You all remember the scenes of devastated forests after recent storms like Hurricane Michael, which caused billions of dollars of damage to forests in the Southeast this fall. Other big hurricanes in past years have also caused significant damage to forests. But how do the forests repair themselves after a big storm? The Scientist has…
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Earlier this month the journal Nature published an article looking at tree cover around the world and how it has changed over time. The article discussed how effective planting more trees will be at combating climate change in the future. The conclusions are that while planting new trees does have beneficial effects, they are probably…
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Atlas Obscura has a fascinating story about stone walls in New England that are found in the middle of forests. Here’s a quote from the article: “Who would build a stone wall, let alone hundreds of thousands of miles of them, in the middle of the forest? No one. The walls weren’t built in the…
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Florida Politics posted a story this week on the four major impacts from Hurricane Michael on forestry in the Panhandle of Florida and in southwestern Georgia. They are storms, long-term flooding, fire threat, and pine beetle. With so much destruction of the forests there, the groves are now especially susceptible to the impacts of severe…