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06/01/1989
The Case for Eastern Old-Growth
An unusually old and large chestnut oak in the George Washington National Forest.
An unusually old and large chestnut oak in the George Washington National Forest.

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“The Case for Eastern Old-Growth” was published in American Forests, May/June 1989.

This is the first article to raise the issue of new old-growth in the formerly deforested East.

“Long …

03/01/1994
The Great Forest
Creek in the Monongahela National Forest, WV
Creek in the Monongahela National Forest, WV

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“The Great Forest” was published in the Wilderness Magazine, spring 1994.

“Rage is not the politically correct emo­tion to feel in an old growth forest. Awe, veneration, respect, humility­, these are expected. But I want to …