Restoring Old-Growth Forest Characteristics

Old-growth forests, with their abundant deadwood, multiple canopy layers, and variation in tree ages, densities, and sizes, are different than our ecologically young second growth forests. These differences have important implications for forest benefits such as wildlife habitat and climate change mitigation. We cannot re-create true old-growth forests; however, we have opportunities through both passive and active forest management to restore old-growth characteristics to our ecologically young forests in New York and New England. This webinar will describe the differences between old-growth forests and our current second growth forest and opportunities to restore missing characteristics to our forests while meeting our other goals. Presented by Paul Catanzaro, University of Massachusetts.

More information and a downloadable pdf of the newest bulletin about restoring old-growth forest characteristics is available here https://masswoods.org/caring-your-lan...

Note: Slide #9 should report approximately 100,000 acres of old-growth forest in NY, representing less than 1%.