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...Harvard-owned forest in Western Massachusetts, which is currently used for research, functioned as a hiding place for valuable University art treasures when rumors persisted during World War II that German submarines lingered off the Boston coast...
Elaborate gardens are not Harvard's only means of offering scholars a bucolic setting. The University owns two 3000 acre forests, which are utilized for experimentation in forest development...
Research and class field trips are conducted in the Petersham, Massachusetts' forest, which was given to Harvard in 1908 by James W. Brooks. Nearly 30 people staff the facility, which features a 22,570 volume library. "The forest is unique in that it is the only place in the country that has a good set of land use record keeping over time," says forest economist Ernest M. Gould...
Under Tureen's guidance, the Maine Indians used a third of their settlement to repurchase 300,000 acres of lost forest land. Another third was put into a trust and now provides each Passamaquoddy and Penobscot household with a $1,000 to $1,200 annuity. To help the Indians invest the remaining $27 million, Tureen set up Tribal Assets in partnership with Daniel Zilkha, 44, a Princeton friend and former Wall Street investment banker. Because of Zilkha's connections in the financial community, says Tureen, "we had access to capital markets in a way that Indians would never have...
...courtly Soviet diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief...