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Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional, and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.

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The Forest Center of Northwest Massachusetts is a resource provided by the Forest Climate Resilience Program, a multi-partner initiative hosted by Mass Audubon.
The Story of Our Forests
A common myth - “the pristine myth” - has been perpetuated by colonization; it is the idea that the forests and lands of much of America were relatively untouched prior to colonization
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Glossary: greenhouse gases
Glossary: mitigate

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