The Working Forest, a new piece covering David Foster and the Harvard Forest, was recently published in The New York Times Magazine's Green Issue. Foster helped develop Wildlands and Woodlands, a new method for conserving forested land.
“When the great, green wave of leaf out spreads across the Eastern U.S., the entire earth’s atmosphere will change,” he said. “Atmospheric scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii will see the carbon decreasing in the atmosphere. The forest is producing oxygen. It’s cleaning the air. It’s purifying the water. You try to explain to people that this is a huge natural machine that is working for you, and that we have to invest in it because that’s what we do — we invest in infrastructure.”
David Foster
In the article, Foster discusses reforestation, forests as carbon sinks, sprawl, development, and the "conscious, well-conceived decision...to do nothing."
Read more in The Working Forest, by Robert Sullivan.
This story features the photo "John Sanderson's farmyard lane" by Night Owl City, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
So-called midlatitude forests of the United States...are reducing the global increase in carbon by more than 10 percent.