It was also the first forest in Connecticut to be inducted into the OGFN. An old-growth forest is defined as a forest that has developed over a long period of time, largely free from human ...

CLIFTON, Va. — Hemlock Overlook Regional Park in Fairfax County is being inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network. This is kind of like the Hall of Fame for really old trees. The Old-Growth ...

Also known as HWA, hemlock wooly ... to produce new growth, weakening it and making it more susceptible to other environmental stressors. At first, the damage to forests was alarming, Cheah ...

The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. The move was announced by U.S ...

When I began studying old-growth forests 30 ... short period of time. Most forests we studied had lost at least one dominant tree species. Several had lost two (hemlock and beech), and one in ...

Promising, but middle-aged for a hemlock. They pressed onward. If there’s one place in Green Lakes that just feels like an old growth forest it’s the ‘Tuliptree Cathedral’ on the southwest ...

The Tionesta Scenic and Research Natural Area in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania is the latest old-growth tract ... large eastern hemlock trees, some more than 400 ...

A 120-acre virgin forest in Perry County, home to many hemlock trees that are believed to be more than 225 years old, has become Pennsylvania’s latest addition to the national Old-Growth Forest ...

“However old-growth forests are also pinyon-juniper, pine, spruce, hemlock and oak-hickory.” In Colorado, old-growth logging has seen its share of controversy in recent years. A 2024 plan to log more ...

Eastern hemlock, sassafras and the rare pumpkin ash. Greene said being part of the Old-Growth Forest Network highlights and recognizes what Erie Bluffs has and could draw more visitors to it.