What’s an old-growth forest? This is my second video from Big Reed, the largest old growth forest in New England. There are a lot of different definitions for “old growth” but most fall into one or more of these three buckets — forests that are “primary” or “virgin”; forests that are “old”; or forests that are “late-successional” I.e. that have an array of attributes that functionally describe how forests have existed on this landscape for millennia. Also note that my description of late-success

The Tongass is one of the last, largest coastal temperate rainforests in the world yet at 10 a.m. ET tomorrow, the Senate Natural Resources Committee is hearing a bill that proposes to privatize 115,200 acres of these public lands. S.2554 would transfer large areas of public land in the Tongass into private corporate ownership, putting roadless old-growth forest at risk of industrial logging and development. The Tongass is a globally significant temperate rainforest, a carbon stronghold, and cri