Bormann proposed to Pierce that the Forest Service set aside an area dedicated to closed-system ecological studies, and in 1955 the first tract was dedicated, in the Hubbard Brook watershed, just west of the village of West Thornton, New Hampshire.
The Forest Service set aside an area dedicated to closed-system ecological studies. This was what Bormann proposed to Pierce. The first tract was dedicated. This was in the Hubbard Brook watershed. This was in 1955. This was just west of the village of West Thornton. West Thornton was New Hampshire.