New England Forests Through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas.

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NEW ENGLAND FORESTS THROUGH TIME: INSIGHTS FROM THE HARVARD FOREST DIORAMAS

Edited by David R. Foster and John F. O'Keefe. 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138: Harvard University Press, August 2000. (800) 405-1619. www.hup.harvard.edu. ISBN 0-674-00344-6. 67 pp. $10.50 Paperback.

Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-19th century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. New England Forests Through Time tells these historical and...