- Maine — Old-Growth Forest Network
Plan your visit to an old-growth or mature native forest with maps, directions, and information on hiking trails, parking, and admission
- Safeguarding Maine’s Oldest Forests - New England Forestry Foundation
Across northern Maine, the report’s authors identified around 148,000 combined acres of late-successional — meaning at least 150 years old — and old-growth forests, plus stands transitioning into this condition
- Forests - Acadia National Park (U. S. National Park Service)
Acadia’s iconic trails wind through a dark, dense forest, where wooden walkways protect a thick carpet of moss underfoot Evergreens trees like red spruce, white spruce, and balsam fir characterize the canopy of this coastal forest
- LSOG Project – Our Climate Common
One big challenge to conserving LSOG forest over such an enormous area as the unorganized townships of Maine is knowing how much there is, and where it is In this study, we explored the ability of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) to map and quantify LSOG forest
- The Secrets of New England’s Last Great Old-Growth Forest
Of some 18 million acres of Maine forest, only 10,000 are known to have evaded ax and saw — one half of one tenth of a percent Most such examples of old growth — physically undisturbed by harvesting — are scattered about in small stands, a disparate collection of isolated anachronisms
- Healthy Forests Are Messy Forests! - Friends of Acadia
The features I described are common in one of the few remaining stands of old-growth in Acadia, along the Sluice Way Trail on Bernard Mountain Major threats to Acadia’s forests include invasive plant species, exotic forest pests, atmospheric deposition (for example, acid rain), and climate change
- “Old Growth” Forests Defined by Key Ecological Characteristics
In Maine, the most forested state in the country, the forests are very young, some only decades old Most of the state has been cut over three, four or more times By any measure there is precious little of what we would call “old growth forest”
- Using the ‘Magic’ of LiDAR to Map Maine’s Old-Growth Forests
The nonprofit Our Climate Common has recently begun using light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, to find patches of biodiverse old-growth forest
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