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Our Wildlife and the Changing Forest

• HF-ID: HF1929-07
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Fisher, Richard T.

• Date: 1929
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Typewritten manuscript and photocopy. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: wildlife, conservation, succession
• Abstract:
  • In the course of agitation for game conservation we hear much about the effects of shooting, vermin, and disease, and little about the ups and downs of the habitats, of the immense changes in the ratio between forest and field and in the kinds of trees and shrubs which were plentiful or scarce at different periods of our history. In twenty years' experience at the Harvard Forest, we have had an opportunity not only to see what happens on particular areas with gradual or complete change in the kind of forest, but also to piece together a pretty authentic picture of what has happened to the habitats of central New England in the two hundred years of the white man's occupation.
  
  
  • (Article for The Sportsman, March 1929.)

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