Across
- 1. Region containing Lake Minnewaska and Mohonk Lake
- 5. Lake with the longer pollen record
- 7. The study of fossilized plans
- 8. Forest reset button
- 9. Species that can’t take the heat
- 11. Units used to calibrate the past in this study
- 14. Mohonk’s pal
- 15. Temperature favored by spruce and hemlock
- 17. Conifer that declined during increased fire activity
- 19. A period of warming temperatures, increased moisture, and more fires
Down
- 2. Mountain range containing both study lakes
- 3. When glaciers retreated and forests returned
- 4. A period of cooling temperatures and drought
- 6. Species showing early-Holocene surge then decline
- 7. Better known as the ice age
- 10. Microscopic time capsules of ancient forests
- 12. A species of tree that can be both an active and passive pyrophyte
- 13. Dating method that stops at 1950 “present”
- 16. “Tsuga”
- 18. Stress that reduced oak and maple
- 20. Home state of Mohonk and Minnewaska