Our Changing Forests Teacher Book Review:

 Forests in Time

edited by David Foster and John Aber

I've been reading the Foster/Aber book, Forests in Time.  It's a great overview of much of the LTER work that's been done at HF over the years and attempts to explain how the New England landscape has been impacted by human activity as well as climate and weather-related events such as hurricanes from pre-colonial times to the present. It explains how both flora and fauna have changed over this period and also measures how forests have responded or affected the changes in flux of hydrology, CO2, Nitrogen and other atmospheric gases based on soil factors, climate change as well as anthropogenic factors.  There's a heck of a lot of very good data and info, but I think teachers and students would probably find how animal populations were effected by human impacts as there is good info and data on that particular chapter.

Bill Van Valkenburg, Gardner High School Teacher

Our Changing Forests Teacher

Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming Teacher

Research Experience for Teachers (RET), Stinson Lab-Ragweed Project