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The treeline is a moving target | blogjou

Ben Rawlence

The Treeline

p. 6
05 Nov 2023

The treeline is a moving target


The fact that in modern usage the term ‘treeline’ has come to mean a fixed line on a map indicating the growing limit of trees is simply evidence of the very narrow time horizon of humans, and of how much we have come to take our current habitat for granted.