Modeling Future Scenarios of Massachusetts Forests: A Tale of Resilience - Meg Graham MacLean

An article written and read by Meg Graham MacLean.Meg Graham MacLean is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar of carbon accounting at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. She is passionate about collaborating with forestry, environmental, and community leaders at all levels to better understand the human-environment interactions that impact our forest ecosystems. Her research uses innovative quantitative methods to explore how the forested landscape is changing due to human and climate pressures, the impacts of these changes on forest ecosystems and carbon dynamics, and how to monitor and model these changes with the goal of informing policy and management decisions. Learn moreRead the full article and discover additional content in the Winter 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.