old-growth

• “In fact, by itself, the Tongass accounts for more than one-third of all the remaining old-growth, temperate rainforest habitat in the world.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Brune: Rainforest, USA

• “That means that millions of acres of old-growth trees won't be cut and some of the most beautiful and pristine wilderness in America will, for now, stay that way.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Brune: Rainforest, USA

• “So far, a million acres have been logged -- but nine million acres of old-growth forest remain intact.”

  The Huffington Post: Carl Pope: Sometimes the Good Guys Win -- But Slowly

• “The theater is now covered in vines, surrounded by old-growth trees and giant bushes.”

  The Washington Post: Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom

• “This isn't resource conumption per se, but when we consider that old-growth logging has declined but not stopped due to demand (largely based on price of such woods) and loggers have begun a 10-1 replanting ratio for areas cut down, the bleak notion that every resource used today is a withdrawl from a finite pool available for tomorrow's generations is undermined.”

  Capitalism as a Benevolent System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “You can give more people more chainsaws, but they will only cut down more old-growth forests.”

  Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The old-growth forests had been maintained for their nut crop—a major source of food and oils.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fire The Sky

• “As we drove deeper into the forest and passed under the thick canopy formed by the old-growth trees, the sunlight would mysteriously vanish.”

  Simon & Schuster: Manifesting Michelangelo

• “Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday scrapped a plan, authorized in the last days of the Bush administration, to nearly quadruple the allowable logging on federal lands in western Oregon - including many prized old-growth stands - and open up protected northern spotted owl habitat across Oregon, Washington and Northern California to timber companies.”

  POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 17, 2009

• “These were mostly old-growth trees that measured ten and even twenty feet in diameter.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

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