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Forest service carves new experimental forest out of Tongass NF

Forest service carves new experimental forest out of Tongass NF

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The USDA Forest Service established a new experimental forest in Alaska on June 25. The 25,000-acre Héen Latinee Experimental Forest is located inside the Tongass National Forest, and is easily accessible ...





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Pioneering landscape-scale research releases first findings

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The May issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research presents the preliminary findings of 23 scientists involved in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa pine e ...


New chameleon species discovered in East Africa

New chameleon species discovered in East Africa (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new species of chameleon has been discovered in Tanzania by a team of scientists.


Scientists use lasers to measure changes to tropical forests

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created Jan 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New technology deployed on airplanes is helping scientists quantify landscape-scale changes occurring to Big Island tropical forests from non-native plants and other environmental factors that affect carbon sequestration.


Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves

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created Jan 12, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

An international research team has discovered that the size of Amazon forest reserves is yet more important than previously thought. Their findings, to be published this week in the journal Science, underscore the import ...


Researcher finds forest birds ‘commuting’ to attract mates

Researcher finds forest birds 'commuting' to attract mates

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ecologist at the University of Rhode Island studying habitat use by a forest-dwelling game bird found that the birds unexpectedly exhibited what he described as "the bar scene phenomenon" ...


Tree species composition influences nitrogen loss from forests

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Throughout the world, nitrogen compounds are released to the atmosphere from agricultural activities and combustion of fossil fuels. These pollutants are deposited to ecosystems as precipitation, gases, and particles, sometimes ...


Study finds hemlock trees dying rapidly, affecting forest carbon cycle

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created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering ...


Climate Change, Acid Rain Could Be Good for Forests

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created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than 20 years of research in the northern hardwood forests of Michigan, scientists at Michigan Technological University's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science have reached a surprising ...


Tennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests

Tennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The American chestnut was a dominant species in eastern U.S.'s forests before a blight wiped it out in the early 1900s. Today it's being returned to the landscape thanks in part to work by a University of ...


Soil Particles Take Flight?

When it comes to forest soil, wildfires pack 1-2 punch

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created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For decades, scientists and resource managers have known that wildfires affect forest soils, evidenced, in part, by the erosion that often occurs after a fire kills vegetation and disrupts soil structure. ...



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