Here's another article in the same vein, from today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/399450_birds10.html Birds seem to be heading farther north because of climate change See http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/02/10/amid_warming_birds_sh ift_north/ Birds as well as trees and forests will slowly adapt to a warming planet or a cooling one too if that¹s the case. For us foresters, it makes sense to promote those mid tolerant to tolerant species that naturally tend to become dominants and codominants with a wide range. Around my neck of the woods that would be mostly red oak and white pine. We can make forests more adaptable to climate change by using the appropriate silviculture to increase the proportion of these more adaptable species while also trying to keep our forests as diverse as possible. Man will adapt too; we always have. Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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