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Land Use Decisions Impact Forest Benefits
2013-12-13 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new study by Harvard University's Harvard Forest and the Smithsonian Institution reveals that, if left unchecked, recent trends in the loss of forests to development will undermine significant land conservation gains in Massachusetts, jeopardize water quality and limit the natural landscape's ability to protect against climate change. cientists researched and analyzed four plausible scenarios for what Massachusetts could look like in the future. The scenarios were developed by a group of forestry...
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