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Explore the significance of having 61 trees per person as estimated by ecology professor Nalini Nadkarni.

Ecology professor Nalini Nadkarni at Evergreen State College recently estimated that we presently have '61 trees per person.' Our latest post at Talking Science explores what that calculation means.

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Sixty-One

Explore the significance of having 61 trees per person as estimated by ecology professor Nalini Nadkarni.

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