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Natural archives — like tree rings in old-growth forests — can provide information on climate change over time. (A. Pace)

April 29, 2025

Old growth forests in eastern Canada show that the climate started changing almost 100 years ago

Alexandre Pace, Concordia University

Tree-rings unlock 195 years of past climate in the Gaspésie mountains.

In the longleaf pine savannas of the southeastern U.S., most of the biodiversity is found in the ground cover and depends on frequent fires. Reed Noss

April 16, 2025

Wide variety of old‑growth ecosystems across the US makes their conservation a complex challenge

Reed Frederick Noss, University of Florida

Effective conservation of old-growth ecosystems will work best if it considers their varied ecology.

Looking up toward redwoods’ crowns in Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, Calif. Gado/Getty Images

January 3, 2024

Coast redwood trees are enduring, adaptable marvels in a warming world

Daniel Lewis, California Institute of Technology

Redwoods grow in networks that house unique communities of plants and animals high in the air. They offer life lessons about adapting over time.

Woodland caribou of the Pipmuacan herd. The effects of predation and habitat loss have greatly contributed to the decline of caribou in southern Nitassinan. (Stéphane Bourassa, Canadian Forest Service)

July 19, 2023

A hundred years of logging threatens the Innu link to their land

Louis De Grandpré, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); David Gervais; Éric Kanapé, and Marie-Hélène Rousseau

A realistic look at forest management on the Nitassinan of Pessamit, based on data from the Québec government’s forest inventories.

Top contributors

Éric Kanapé
Biologiste, Conseil des Innus de Pessamit
Louis De Grandpré
Chercheur en écologie forestière, Conseil des Innus de Pessamit et professeur associé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Marie-Hélène Rousseau
Ingénieure forestière, Conseil des Innus de Pessamit
Daniel Lewis
Lecturer in History, California Institute of Technology
David Gervais
Biologiste Forestier, Conseil des Innus de Pessamit
Reed Frederick Noss
Conservation Science Coordinator, University of Florida
Alexandre Pace
PhD Candidate in Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies, Concordia University
Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University