New York: Cool video on recovering lower Hudson woodland through all 4 seasons
What Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University has called “The Great Restoration” (fascinating paper on reforestation trends by Ausubel & Victor) has just as much potential to spread in the tropics as it did in temperate zones in the 20th century. This is particularly true in northeastern North America.
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All the woods around my home in the lower Hudson Valley were pasture as recently as the 1930s. To see what young secondary deciduous forest there looks like, watch the video below:
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