Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’

Mongabay
Mar 26, 2025, 12:39 pm144 pts
Edward Faison, an ecologist, stood quietly in a patch of forest that stretched for miles in all directions. Above him, the needles from white pine trees swayed — common in the Adirondack Forest Preserve in northern New York state. He stepped past downed wood and big, broken snags, observing how the forest…

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