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Mapping America’s oldest trees 🌲

The team created the first-ever inventory of mature and old-growth forests in the U.S. using boots-on-the-ground research and @nasa’s GEDI instrument on the @Space_Station.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/433bsiq

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NASA Teams with Forest Service to Tally America’s Oldest Trees

The White House has called for an inventory of our eldest forests. A space instrument is helping scientists chronicle these trees as a changing climate threatens their future.

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