Neil Norton's Blog Posts Tagged 'fragmented' (1)

The once unbroken forests that once stretched across vast swathes of North America are mostly gone, broken into pieces by cities, roads and farms. Now a new study attempts to quantify fragmented forests in the Eastern United States – and finds that privately-held lands may play a key role in keeping things together.

“Fragmentation is an ever-present threat to forest communities in the eastern United States,” Kurt H. Riitters and John W. Coulston of the U.S. Forest Service and James D.…