The author's introduction to forest ecology focuses on the effects of climate, physiography, biology, and soils on the growth of various kinds of trees. He includes projects for amateur naturalists,
When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern
America's 754 million acres of forest constitute more than a major geographical feature. They are intricately woven into the national economy and culture-providing a fifth of the nation's industrial r
