Ashton: A legacy written in trunk, limb, and leaf
They were in a bind, no doubt about it. Wearing little but cotton shorts, the four men huddled on a streambank deep in the Bornean rain forest. Water dripped from their soggy clothes, making muddy...
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Gauging forest changes
Harvard scientists are leading a new international collaboration that is working to match up a global network of forest plots with a similar network created in China, to provide scholars with more...
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Guarding the forests
The regeneration of the region’s forests over the last 150 years is an environmental gift that New Englanders shouldn’t squander with thoughtless development, the director of the Harvard Forest said...
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Health care savings, naturally
For millions of people around the world, being sick doesn’t mean making a trip to the local pharmacy. Instead it means turning to the forest to provide a pharmacopeia of medicines to treat everything...
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Worrisome growth pattern
Every spring, as the weather warms, trees up and down the East Coast explode in a display of bright green life as leaves fill their branches, and every fall, the same leaves provide one of nature’s...
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Harvard research reports major forest loss in New England
New England is in danger of squandering its conservation “second chance,” according to the authors of a new Harvard Forest report. The region, heavily deforested in colonial days, is today one of the...
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