While conservation biologists debate whether to move organisms threatened by the warming climate, one forester in British Columbia is already doing it. Emma Marris reports.
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Marris, E. Forestry: Planting the forest of the future. Nature 459, 906–908 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459906a
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