Here’s the (good) reason some Mass. pine forests might get cut

On a July day, Danielle O’Dell walked through a pitch pine forest on Nantucket and saw the telltale signs.

There were clusters of dead trees. Some had reddening and browning needles. Hints of internal rebellion included globs of opaque pitch oozing from the bark, appearing as though someone stuck wads of gum or popcorn-shaped masses to the trunks.

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