Successfully managing forests must include stewarding the hidden life belowground
Retention forestry in a Douglas-fir forest on Vancouver Island, in which 40 mature living trees were retained per hectare. (Government of British Columbia),
August 7, 2023
Forestry professors Drs. Cindy Prescott and Sue Grayston say forest-harvesting practices that retain living trees throughout the harvested area sustain belowground life.
“Half of the biodiversity in forests is unseen because it lives belowground.”