If you are among the more than four thousand drivers who will hit a deer today, or beavers have flooded your backyard, or bears have looted your bird feeders, then you won't want to miss Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds.

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As part of a hands-on course in global change research, six science journalists from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Logan Science Journalism Program spent 3 days at the Harvard Forest in May, working alongside scientists to count Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, measure tree seedlings in herbivore exclosures, quantify carbon dioxide fluxes from a soil warming experiment, and core down to

A stroll through a recent patch cut or shelterwood harvest in Massachusetts or northern Connecticut reveals not only prolific tree regeneration but an astonishing level of ungulate browsing. To what extent moose and deer browsing is altering forest development in these regenerating stands is a question that Harvard Forest researcher, Ed Faison; Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit leader, Stephen

After being extirpated from southern New England during the colonial period, moose have recently returned, establishing an important new disturbance to the region's temperate forests. In the first publication of moose foraging ecology in southern New England, Harvard Forest researchers Ed Faison, David Foster, and Glenn Motzkin along with US Fish and Wildlife biologist, John McDonald quantify moose foraging selectivity