JP: Its not accurate. There are still forests in the Great Smokies Mountains NP, Adirondacks, Cook Forest PA, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and northern Minnesota (and many smaller areas) that are representative of forest from presettlement times. The comparison is is more accurate when old growth is compared to the second growth that covers most of the landscape today.
Lee jon parker wrote: > ENTS, > I found this article while doing a search for old growth around the > Delaware Water Gap. > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/23/769735/-If-you-go-out-in-the-woods-today... > It's a liberal editorial but the second half has some rather > hyperbolic descriptions of what the land here was like pre-settlement. > Specifically the author claims that there are no places in the East > Coast left that can compare to the way things used to be, and the only > place to really get a sense of that past is in the great Białowieża > national forest in Poland. I suspect a bit of exaggeration > (especially the illustration included) but I wonder if the sentiment > is accurate? > JP > > -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
