[PCA] NEWS: Climate change's impact on forests being measured via expanding tree trunks

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021905405.html?hpid=artslot

Climate change's impact on forests being measured via expanding tree 
trunks
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Jess Parker hugs trees.

In the woods of Anne Arundel County, he throws his arms around tulip 
poplars, oaks and American beeches, and holds them so tightly that his 
cheek presses into their bark. This is not some hiker on a lark: anybody, 
hopped up on campfire coffee and exercise endorphins, might hug a tree 
once.

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