Scientists remove thousands of aspens to glimpse forest's future

Armed with chainsaws and pry bars, University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues recently hastened the end for nearly 7,000 mature aspen and birch trees in a large-scale, long-term experiment to glimpse the Great Lakes region's future forests. A band of bark was stripped from each tree to kill it without cutting it down.

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