Changing Climate, Shifting Forests
Predicting a future for American forests.
Changing Climate, Shifting Forests :: American Forests Magazine, Winter 2010
Climate change — with its associated myriad impacts — is rewriting the American landscape. . .
Some changes may be subtle and hard to notice, such as the gradual decline of coastal redwood forests over the coming centuries. Other changes will be hard to miss, such as the absence of blazing sugar maple trees in much of New England’s autumn landscape.. . . .
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Cristina Santiestevan is an environmental writer and communications consultant. She writes about issues as varied as clouded leopards in Thailand, climate change in American forests and mushroom foraging in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work appears in magazines, museum exhibits and nonprofit publications.