Wildlife Dying Out in Dense Evergreen Forests

Environment News Service, August, 2007 by staff"

CORVALLIS, Oregon (ENS) — --> The traditional emphasis on dense, fast growing, conifer forests in the Pacific Northwest raises questions about the health of dozens of bird and animal species that depend on shrubs, herbs and broadleaf trees, suggests a new analysis by Oregon State University and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Conifers are evergreen trees such as fir and cedar that dominate the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

The study was just published in "Forest Ecology and Management," by Joan Hagar, an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University, and a wildlife biologist with the Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, which funded the study.

At least 78 vertebrate...

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