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Get our free mobile app 'Ghost Forest', residing in Madison Square Park in New York City, is the brain child of Professional Forester Bob Williams and artist Maya Lin. 60 Atlantic White Cedar Trees from Maurice River Township, Cumberland County were presented to Lin, who selected 45 of them to become part of the exhibit. NJ.com reports that salt water intrusion is causing clusters of trees in New Jersey to die off. The rising of sea levels related to climate change appears to be the root of that demise. Williams, with Pine Creek Forestry, tells NJ.com that roughly 90 percent of Atlantic White...

Forty-nine dead trees have just been planted in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. What looks at first like a pretty serious landscaping accident is actually an art installation by Maya Lin that’s been created in order to highlight the effects of climate change. Advertisement Lin, who’s perhaps best known for creating the Washington, D.C. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, brought the dead trees from the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where rising sea levels have killed stretches of the forest’s Atlantic Cedars with saltwater inundation. Lin told Reuters that her installation, Ghost Forest, is base...

The installation, which Maya Lin said carries a sense of mourning, has taken on added meaning since the death of her husband in January.

Surface cover star Maya Lin has unveiled a public installation at Madison Square Park. Dubbed  Ghost Forest, the work comprises 49 spectral white cedar tree transplants meant to shed light on the eponymous dying event impacting woodlands around the world due to climate change. The Download: Sourced from New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, the grove of barren cedars presents a stark juxtaposition with the surrounding greenscape, bringing to light issues like species loss, habitat loss, and climate change. In typical Lin fashion, the artwork has a public service element beyond awareness, culmin...

Get our free mobile app 'Ghost Forest', residing in Madison Square Park in New York City, is the brain child of Professional Forester Bob Williams and artist Maya Lin. 60 Atlantic White Cedar Trees from Maurice River Township, Cumberland County were presented to Lin, who selected 45 of them to become part of the exhibit. NJ.com reports that salt water intrusion is causing clusters of trees in New Jersey to die off. The rising of sea levels related to climate change appears to be the root of that demise. Williams, with Pine Creek Forestry, tells NJ.com that roughly 90 percent of Atlantic White...