Draft 4 for 4.22

The snow removal experiment in progress at Harvard Forest is addressing the effects of reduced snowfall in Massachusetts. They are using this experiment to predict how the vegetation would be affected if in the future, the snowfall keeps decreasing in the area. They have plots in which they don’t remove the soil and plots in which they do. So far, they have seen that removing the snow is causing the soil temperatures to drop because the snow is not there to insulate the soil.