“It’s just with climate change, things are changing faster and in different ways. “There are places where climate change is already influencing forest regeneration,” Handler said. [Extreme climate change has arrived in the United States]Palik pointed out bitternut hickory from southern Minnesota and Illinois. “It may be a different forest.” (Salwan Georges) A young ponderosa pine from South Dakota, now growing in the woods of the Chippewa National Forest. “Turns out, we were underestimating the degree to which climate change would disrupt our ambitious plans,” she later wrote.

Source: Washington Post April 29, 2020 21:11 UTC