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...question is known, keeping it may not be the most efficient use of University resources. The money earned from its sale might be better used to fund some other important research. The tract is less than four percent of the total Harvard Forest, the bulk of which is in Petersham, Mass. If, as some Hamilton residents allege, Harvard has determined that selling the land and investing the money in research in another part of the forest would be a better use of resources, then we see no reason to question that judgment. Nevertheless, we believe that Harvard ought...
Researchers from the 3,000-acre Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., where much of the University’s research in forest biology is conducted, confirmed that wildfires in the southern California region were to be expected...
...fires, stressed that large-scale burning was not out of the ordinary for this time of year. He recalled “fire days” during high school, when classes were cancelled because burning vegetation made air quality unhealthy. Researchers from the 3,000-acre Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., where much of the University’s research in forest biology is conducted, confirmed that wildfires in the southern California region were to be expected. “When I was an undergraduate, my ecology professor said that coastal California was being developed in order to burn down...
...acre Harvard Forest is getting green—a lot of it—to promote green. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it will award over $4.9 million to the Harvard Forest, an ecology and conservation center in Petersham, Mass. The grant is the largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive...
Seventy miles west of Cambridge, deep in a hardwood forest near the Massachusetts hamlet of Petersham, there is a Harvard classroom without walls, and four Harvard students who may set foot in Harvard Yard for the first time at Commencement...