By: Tess Halpern, Christopher Hughes
If you close your eyes while walking through Hopkins Memorial Forest, you might hear the wind whistling through the branches of pine, spruce, and maple trees; the crunching hiking shoes of a nearby research group; or some nearby birdsong. If you were to visit the same spot in 1880, before the College’s northern hardwood research forest existed, you might not have heard anything at all — or maybe just the moo of a cow.













