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by Erica Heilman Winter 2019 The Resilient Forest

Part 3: The Wired Woods

Aaron and Ant
Image courtesy of Harvard Forest

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, is one of the most storied experimental forests in the Northeast. Founded in 1907, it’s the home to decades-old forest ecology research studies, and its woods are wired up and tricked out with sensors, cameras, buried cables, and “little automated mushroom-looking things measuring soil respiration.” Here audio producer Erica Heilman takes a walk with Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison, and asks: who cares?

The Resilient Forest Series, Part 3

Our special thanks go to the Emily Landecker Foundation, the Dorr Foundation, the Davis Conservation Foundation, the Larsen Fund, Melinda Richmond, and the Samuel P. Hunt Foundation for their support of this work.

by Erica Heilman

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