When Thomas Jefferson was building his beloved Monticello home near Charlottesville, Virginia in the late 1700s, in the Southeastern Mixed Forests Ecoregion (NA0413), he perhaps did not think of his environs in quite those terms. We were still 250 years out from the concept itself of an ecoregion and even well before the founding of ecology as… Continue reading Thomas Jefferson’s ecoregion: Southeastern Mixed Forests