Increase in hemlock forest offsetting effect of invasive hemlock woolly adelgid for now

In many regions, particularly in the southern Appalachians, the loss of hemlock to hemlock woolly adelgid has been devastating. However, when Forest Service scientists used regional Forest Inventory & Analysis data to get a big picture view of the status of hemlock in the eastern US, the results surprised them.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/ufs…