For the last several decades, Henry’s Woods has been preserved as part of the Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center state park in Northampton County. It was recognized Thursday by the Old-Growth Forest Network, a nonprofit that’s creating a network of protected and accessible old-growth forests, or forests that could someday turn in to old-growth forests.
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Felling of 120 acres of old-growth trees in Pocomoke State Forest proposed
May 25, 2021
POCOMOKE STATE FOREST, Md. – The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is considering cutting down 436 acres of trees in the Pocomoke State Forest. This is a normal operation that they say helps preserve forest life.
But the Old Growth Forest Network says the problem is that 120 of those acres are old-growth trees nearly 100 years old. Executive Director Joan Maloof says old-growth trees can often grow for hundreds of years, and help protect younger plants and the animals that live there. “As these trees grow, they compete with each other. The stronger ones win out and get larger, and the smaller ones stay in the understory. There are some species that just come into a forest that’s older because they prefer the shade than full sun,” said Maloof.
She writes. They cut. Nothing ever seems to change.
This year, the retired Salisbury University biology and environmental sciences professor hopes to break that cycle. Maloof opposes the felling of 120 acres of woodland in the Pocomoke State Forest, where some trees are believed to be nearly 100 years old. This is the kind of stuff we re talking about here, Maloof said as she tromped through one of the shady tracts that s set to be logged. [These are] some of the last older patches. There s the holly and the understory trees.
Her stance was joined by dozens of conservation organizations, including the Audubon s Mid-Atlantic office.
Davey Woods joins old-growth forests
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Davey Woods in Champaign County is one of four Ohio State Nature Preserves inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network (OGFN) on April 21 and 22 to coincide with the celebration of Earth Day.
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COLUMBUS – Davey Woods in Champaign County is one of four Ohio State Nature Preserves inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network (OGFN) on April 21 and 22 to coincide with the celebration of Earth Day. The other inductees are Baker Woods State National Park (SNP) in Mercer County, Gross Memorial Woods SNP in Shelby County and Hueston Woods SNP in Butler County.
Davey Woods is located on Lonesome Road northeast of St. Paris. It contains numerous large tulip trees, sugar maple and several species of oaks as well as an excellent array of spring wildflowers. The preserve totals 103 acres with approximately 90 old-growth acres. Of these large trees, some of the tulip trees sampled were noted to be 145 years old, and one of the