Reporter Tom Verde visits the first permanent temperate forest walkway in the United States, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. While researchers from temperate countries are rushing to study the diminishing tropical forest canopy, the biologist who built the walkway is one of the few studying the canopies in their own backyards.
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