Northern Forests

Forests in the Nation’s most densely forested and most densely populated region will change radically in the next 50 years, primarily because of the way they are managed – or not managed – today, according to a new report by a team of USDA Forest Service scientists and partners.

A team of scientists in New Hampshire succeeded this week in capturing one of nature’s most destructive forces – ice – and corralling it in two large research plots on the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.