Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Goodbye to Mountain Forests?

New York Times: When the smoke finally clears and new plant life pokes up from the scorched earth after the wildfires raging in the southern Rockies, what emerges will look radically different than what was there just a few weeks ago. According to Craig Allen, a research ecologist with the United States Geological Survey in Los Alamos, N.M., forests in the region have not been regenerating after the vast wildfires that have been raging for the last decade and a half. Dr. Allen, who runs the Jemez Mountains Field...

URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/goodbye-to-mountain-forests/?ref=earth
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