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The Old-Growth Forest Network was founded by Joan Maloof, Salisbury University, Maryland, now Executive Director of the organization.She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. [3]
The Old-Growth Forest Network is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that identifies native, old-growth forests in hopes to protect them. The Cudahy Nature Preserve is officially an old-growth forest ...
Non-scientist access to the old-growth segment of the Woods is by guided tour only. A self-guided 0.5-mile loop trail invites unsupervised access to a verge section of the Woods adjacent to the old growth. [2] The Woods were named as a National Natural Landmark in 1971. They were initiated into the Old-Growth Forest Network in 2023. [1]
Old-growth forests are unique, usually having multiple horizontal layers of vegetation representing a variety of tree species, age classes, and sizes, as well as "pit and mound" soil shape with well-established fungal nets. [20] As old-growth forest is structurally diverse, it provides higher-diversity habitat than forests in other stages.
The Forest Service and federal Bureau of Land Management combined oversee more than 50,000 square miles (129,000 square kilometers) of old growth forests and about 125,000 square miles (324,000 ...
The U.S. Forest Service announced a proposal to conserve and steward old-growth forests including in Pisgah and Nantahala national forests.
She founded the Old-Growth Forest Network in 2012. [2] Maloof was raised in Delaware. Her father was a chemical engineer. [1] She is the author of five books. Her first, Teaching the Trees, was published in 2005, and her second, Among the Ancients, in 2011. [1] [3] In 2017, she published The Living Forest with photographer Robert Llewellyn. [4]
The Biden administration is dropping its efforts to issue a policy to protect old-growth forests — though the president previously touted protecting such forests as an important component of his ...