15 November 2001

CALIFORNIA - Global Forest Scientists have been afforded a unique opportunity to unravel the mysteries of how water moves through redwood trees, some as tall as 34 story sky scrapers. Once they quantify these water movements, they will begin the arduous, but most necessary, task of addressing why redwoods along the highways and some park boundaries are dying, en masse, from the top down.

"It is a rare opportunity that would not have occurred if Dr. Reese Halter and Global Forest Society had not provided substantial funding to address this severe, catastrophic problem." says Prof. Stephen Sillett, Humboldt State University, California.

Tuscon and Banff-based Global Forest Science (www.globalforestscience.org) is a forest biology research institute. With an international multi-disciplinary team of 165 scientists, Global Forest Science is a world leader in forest science research and has often been likened to the Red Adair's of the forest biology world. Global Forest Sciences' many victories ranging from legislation to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia, protection of the world's largest ant colony, opening an international insect quarantine facility and helping to save New Zealand's multi billion dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth. Global Forest Science is also dedicated to children's ecological education - visit GFAwesome.
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