The Connecticut River valley looking north from the summit of Mount Holyoke in Hadley, Massachusetts 1900 and 2022PabloX68 t1_j6fa5k7 wrote
Reply to comment by rexskimmer in The Connecticut River valley looking north from the summit of Mount Holyoke in Hadley, Massachusetts 1900 and 2022 by Redbandana325
Not true.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/ru/ru_fs161.pdf
If you actually look at the studies, the total biomass of trees in MA is increasing and the removal of live trees is going down.
I've lived in this state long enough to have seen many areas go from clearcut farmland to more wooded. Additionally, tree growth is many suburban neighborhoods is substantial.
rexskimmer t1_j6huab7 wrote
Increase biomass means younger 100-year forests are maturing, but there's still a decrease in acreage (even if only slightly in the last decade or so). We've seen a larger decrease in forest area since the 60s.
https://harvardforest1.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf013
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ne/newtown_square/publications/other_publishers/OCR/ne_2003_brooks001.pdf
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