The importance of kelp forest systems, their integrity to wildlife & society, and the lesson found in not completely understanding them. — Kelp forests are highly complex ecosystems found in temperate to cold shallow oceans and seas, they consist of a variety of large and often densely packed macroalgae (a fancy word for any seaweed which is not microscopic). This large brown/green subspecies of seaweed is integral to many local, marine, coastal…