Tiny Forests With Big Benefits

Aug 25

*A Miyawaki Forest in Danehy Park, near Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Credit: Cassandra Klos for The New York Times*

New York Times, August 24 2023

This article is about a relatively new movement: Miyawaki forests that focus on carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat and urban blight improvement.

The comments vary from “this tickles me” to “be careful what native things you will bring back with your native planting.” Comments also highlight Susanne Simard’s seminal work on microorganisms’ relation to the trees and forests. To me anything that gets people closer to nature is a big plus. Comments?

Chip Tittman

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The Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF) was formed in 1991 to promote sustainable forest management that contributes to the long-term ecological, economic, and social well-being of forest-based communities in the Pacific Northwest.