Summary
DOE and the U.S. Forest Service jointly prepared DOE/EA-1764 to analyze the potential environmental impacts of a proposal to study the effects of elevated temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide on a black spruce-Sphagnum ecosystem in the Marcell Experimental Forest in Itasca County, Minnesota. The proposal included climate change manipulation activities, collection of field data, and evaluation of the response of existing biological communities to a range of warming levels.