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Smart Forests for the 21st Century

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How Forests Can Improve Health And Slow Climate Change

July 20, 2020 Lindsey Rustad discussed How Forests Can Improve Health And Slow Climate Change on New Hampshire Public Radio: By Degrees: https://www.nhpr.org/post/degrees-how-forests-can-improve-health-and-slow-climate-change#stream/0

Smart Forests are a network of long-term ecological and silvicultural research sites that are distributed across the United States and are instrumented with a suite of environmental sensors. These sites harness near real-time data to fuel innovation and support science, education and natural resource management in the 21st Century.

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Birdsong Monitoring

Researchers at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon have created a new computer technology to listen to multiple bird sounds at one time, to identify which species are present and how they may be changing as a result of habitat loss or climate change.