Posted by: Sandy Steinman | June 6, 2022

How climate change is being fought by assisted migration and foresters

NPR reports on the concept of ‘assisted migration” and how it might help species adapt to climate change

Foresters have experiments underway around the country in “assisted migration.” This term actually covers a pretty wide gamut of activity, from, in this case, moving a genotype within a tree’s existing range to introducing an animal somewhere its species has never lived before.

Read article at  How climate change is being fought by assisted migration and foresters : NPR


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