Sixty-One

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

Written bySheril Kirshenbaum
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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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