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Article: "Forests in Peril: Tracking Deciduous Trees from Ice-Age Refuges into the Greenhouse World" by Hazel R. Delcourt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- American Forests
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- September 22, 2005
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Forests in Peril; Tracking Deciduous Trees from Ice-Age Refuges into the Greenhouse World by Hazel R. Delcourt.
$22.95 paper. The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co., 2003.
Reports of academic research are seldom presented as a personal adventure and almost never in language understandable to those outside the particular academic discipline. By describing her field studies as a personal journey to discover the history of the eastern deciduous forest from ancient time to the present, Delcourt makes the challenges and rewards of scientific investigation come alive to all who read this book.
She takes the reader on her journey, beginning as ...