New England Forests Exhibition
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| Official Website: | New England Forests Exhibition |
| Venue: | Harvard Museum of Natural History |
| Location: | 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 map |
| Phone: | 617-495-3045 |
| Dates: | Saturday, May 21, 2011 |
| Ages: | Kids |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Exhibits |
What are the plants, animals, fungi, and microbes that make up a forest? How do they interact? How do forests respond to climate, introduced species, land development, and other environmental change?
New England Forests will tackle these and other intriguing questions by immersing visitors in each of three New England forest landscapes designed and constructed by drawing on the rich natural history collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and the expertise of botanists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and system scientists from across the University.
The exhibition features current research about how forest communities work, cycle water and carbon, interface with climate, and respond to invasive species.
The broad goals of the exhibition are to enhance public understanding of the dynamic and varied nature of our forests and initiate public conversation about their use, conservation, and management. New England Forests will engage visitors in the astounding diversity and network of complex relationships within forest communities.
Museum visitors will explore the ecology of woodland caribou, wolves and other wildlife of New England’s old growth communities; they will be captivated by lichen cities clinging to a rock, the mysterious subsurface partnerships between trees and forest mushrooms, and the circle of life within and around a forest pond from tiny aquatic insects to a giant moose.
Visitors will be encouraged to observe and “read” the local landscape for clues about its past and to contemplate the challenges and choices we face in planning our forests’ future.
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Adults: $9.00 Non-Harvard Students with I.D.: $7.00 Seniors (65+): $7.00 Children ages 3–18: $6.00
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