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    The Forests of Spring Creek: A Tale of Change

    The Forests of Spring Creek: A Tale of Change

    Dr. James Finley, Emeritus Professor of Forest Resources, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Management. Penn State University. Today, forests cover just under 17 million acres (56%) of Pennsylvania’s 28 million acres. While forests are the dominant land cover, this forest is in many ways very different from the forests first encountered by Europeans as they settled across the state. Then forests would have seemingly spread unbroken across the landscape. Forest-buffered riv

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