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Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy

US Forest Service Uses Old Land Deeds to See Forests of Long Ago

September 26, 2012 Jane Hodgins, U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station

Forest restoration would be a lot easier if people who lived a couple of centuries ago could just tell us about the forest as they knew it. For Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, a U.S. Forest Service scientist, using original land deeds from colonial America is as close as you can get to actually being...

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