Neil, Thanks so much for posting this. I'm planning a trip up there with a friend from Boston and was just starting to gather info.
Oh, and the article has my second favorite word of the week (the first being "derecho"): "Thoreauvian". Thanks, Jenny On Apr 21, 7:22 am, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear ENTS, > > Just wanted to give the group a big heads up on a long article on > Harvard Forest and Dr. David Foster, among others, in last Sunday's NY > Times. Doesn't seem forests get this kind of coverage often. > > First two paragraphs: > > "Over the winter, David Foster wanted to cut down some trees. His > neighbor didn’t want him to. Foster is the director of the Harvard > Forest, a 3,500-acre experimental forest in the middle of > Massachusetts. When you are the director of an experimental forest, > people aren’t sure you should be cutting down trees. “We’re cutting an > acre of forest, nonnative conifers,” he told me calmly on a day in > February, while grabbing some snowshoes. A forest ecologist will tell > you that if you cut down some woods — not all the woods, but some of > them — a new forest will quickly replace them. There’s a joke in > Massachusetts that if you forget to cut your lawn, you will have a > forest. For an ecologist, tree-cutting can be a stimulus plan that > actually works. > > This cycle of forest succession is an observation that Foster > attributes to Henry David Thoreau; when Foster is walking in the > forest, something he does a lot, he will spot some young white pine > trees, for example, in a freshly cut field and say, “There’s Henry > Thoreau for you!”" > > The full article is here: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19Forest-t.html?_r=2&ref=m... > > neil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
