Nuts About Trees

The blog of Mark Tobin, passionate arborist and CEO of Hartney Greymont

February 8, 2010

Ecosystem Dominoes.

According to data compiled by researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Maryland, forests in the eastern U.S. are growing faster than they have in the last 225 years.

Based on SERC’s measurements, more than 90% of the hardwood stands that they monitor have grown two to four times faster than anticipated. That’s an additional two tons of biomass per acre per year. READ MORE»