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Climate and Forests

Forests are a natural carbon sink, absorbing 10-15% of our nation's greenhouse gasses. Climate change is bringing new challenges to the health and sustainability of our forests. Drought, warmer winters, insects and disease and shifts in the growing…
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Forestry Research

"The role of research is a lantern to help us see what we are finding. The help which research has yielded to foresters has mainly been to explain and correlate facts which would otherwise have been isolated or not understood, to direct the ideas…
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Silviculture

Silviculture is the art and science of controlling the establishment, composition, structure and growth of forests and woodlands. Silvicultural treatments designed for specific forest conditions and landowner goals form the basis of sustainable…

Climate and Forests