About This Lesson
The Harvard Forest in Massachusettsis busy doing some serious global housekeeping, which is being monitored by scientists at Harvard University. “There’s this enormous sucking sound, metaphorically speaking, that is happening across the New England landscape and the eastern US. It’s the carbon being brought down out of the atmosphere, into our forests, which is reducing the amount that is up in the atmosphere,” says David Foster, director of the 3,000-acre Harvard Forest, about 60 miles west of Boston. Foster and other researchers here study forest ecology with support from the NSF.
