Abstract
Concern about the impact of “acid rain” on forests became focused in the 1980s fter West Germany conducted forest damage surveys and publicized the results. These surveys, while providing no proof that atmospheric pollutants were causing damage to trees, have continued to show that the crowns of a majority of the coniferous trees sampled do not exhibit the foliage density or color deemed appropriate to healthy trees. Even before the U.S. Forest Response Program and the National Vegetation Survey Cooperative began, there were strong suggestions that a forest condition survey was needed in the United States.
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Alexander, S.A., Carlson, J.A., Barnard, J.E. (1992). The Visual Damage Survey: A Study to Evaluate the Eastern Forest Condition. In: McKenzie, D.H., Hyatt, D.E., McDonald, V.J. (eds) Ecological Indicators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4659-7_22
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