Environment

Prehistoric Trees Could ‘Future-Proof’ Forests Against Climate Change

by The Daily Eye Team October 27 2016, 12:03 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

As you walk through the landscape, you pass through a patchwork of forests that were logged at different times. You may go from bushwhacking through a dense thicket of young fir trees that were planted in the 1970s, into a stand of mature second-growth, where moss-covered Douglas fir, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce loom over a more spacious understory. Huge stumps—the remnants of ancient giants—are scattered throughout, marked by notches where hand-loggers would have inserted their springboards to fell these enormous trees with nothing more than axes and handsaws.

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