Newsweek

Native Americans Barely Had Any Impact on the Landscape for 14,000 Years, Then Europeans Arrived

Native North Americans did not make large-scale changes to their environment in coastal New England in the 14,000 years they lived there before the Europeans arrived, a study has found. In recent ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Earth Matters: How the English colonists transformed the forests of the Pioneer Valley

A New England landscape at the height of forest clearing and agriculture (1830-1880), as envisioned in a diorama at Harvard Forest's Fisher Museum in Petersham. Credit: Photo courtesy of Harvard ...
University of Wyoming

UW Research Helps Show Limited Effects of Native Americans on Landscape in Pre

Bryan Shuman, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, collects a sediment sample from Green Pond in central Massachusetts. Shuman was part of a study that shows forest adaptation in ...
JSTOR Daily

Ecology and Conservation in the Cultural Landscape of New England: Lessons from Nature's History

As a result of historical and current human impacts on natural ecosystems worldwide, most modern landscapes involve an element of cultural influence. In New England, for example, although the ...