Links and Resources

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Primal Nature in General

• Ancient Forest International - AFI works to protect primary forests, particularly in the Pacific Northwest and in Chile, which harbor some of the few remaining large temperate rainforests.  The web site describes the work and the forests.
• Forest Conservation Portal - The mission of Forests.org is to contribute to ending deforestation, preservation of old-growth forests, conservation management of secondary forests, and commencement of the age of forest restoration.
• Greenpeace - Protecting ancient forests is one of Greenpeace's major campaigns.  The web site of Greenpeace International. describes the campaign region by region and provides links to Greenpeace reports and to national Greenpeace sites.  
• Natural Resources Defense Council - NRDC's multi-faceted program includes research, lawsuits, and public education aimed at protecting natural areas and wildlife. Its BioGems program is attempting to save a dozen areas, many of them examples of primal nature, in North and South America. 
• The Nature Conservancy - The Conservancy is a U.S.-based organization working to preserve ecologically important lands across the globe. Protective measures vary with the site. The Conservancy owns "pristine" lands not subject to active management; it also owns "working lands" from which resources are extracted.   
• Old-Growth Forests of Western Australia - The Western Australian Forest Alliance presents a series of questions and answers on old growth in general and old growth in Western Australian in particular.Russian Old-Growth Forests - The Forest Club, an informal working group composed of representatives from the largest Russian non-governmental organizations working actively for Russian forest conservation, provide background information and news on Russian old growth.
• Rainforest Action Network - RAN works to save forests and their inhabitants around the world by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and nonviolent direction action.
• Rewilding Institute - The institute's Web site provides essential information on "the integration of traditional wildlife and wildlands conservation with conservation biology to advance landscape-scale conservation."
• Taiga Rescue Network - The Taiga Rescue Network, made up of two hundred organizations working to preserve the taiga (boreal forest) and to assist its people, furnishes information and opportunities for action.
• The Trees of Bialowieza Forest - Tomasz Niechoda chronicles the lives of ancient trees in Poland's Bialowieza Forest, the largest remaining deciduous old-growth forest in northern Europe.

Old Growth in Eastern North America

• The Adirondack Council - Protects the ecological integrity and wilderness character of New York's Adirondack Park, which includes extensive areas of never-logged forest.
• Ancient Cross Timbers Project   The Ancient Cross Timbers Project is a project of the University of Arkansas Tree Ring Laboratory, dedicated to studying and preserving ancient Cross Timbers forest in central Texas, Oklahoma, and southeastern Kansas.
• Ancient Forest Education and Research.  This non-profit organization carries out research and disseminates information on old growth and ancient forests in Ontario.
• Boreal Forest Network - The North American affiliate of the Taiga Rescue Network (see above), the Boreal Forest Network is based on Canada but works to preserve forests in Alaska as well as in Canada.
• Buckeye Forest Council - The mission of the Buckeye Forest Council is to protect Ohio's native forests and their inhabitants through education, advocacy, and organizing.  Saving Dysart Woods, an old-growth forest, is one of its three major campaigns.
• Canadian Boreal Initiative - The Initiative is a coalition of conservationists, First Nations, and industry, which has proposed a Boreal Forest Conservation Framework, preserving half of the boreal unloged and allowing sustainable logging on the other half.
• Chattooga Conservancy -  On its web site the Chattooga Conservancy presents a Chattooga Watershed Conservation Plan, which includes the preservation of old-growth forest.  A map shows the location of old growth.
• Clint Farlinger Photographer .  Clint Farlinger, a professional photographer who has worked on a pro bono basis for organizations working to save old growth, here displays a selection of his old-growth photographs.
• Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University - Presents Dysart Woods, a 50-acre site of old-growth mixed mesophytic forest in Belmont County, Ohio.
• Division of Natural Areas, Eastern Kentucky University - Includes a gallery of photographs of Lilley Cornett Woods, an old-growth mixed mesophytic forest of approximately 260 acres in southeastern Kentucky; and links to numerous Web sites helpful for research on forests and biodiversity.
• Eastern Native Tree Society - The Eastern Native Tree Society (ENTS) is a cyberspace interest group devoted to the celebration of trees of the eastern United States through art, poetry, music, mythology, science, medicine, and wood crafts. ENTS is also intended as an archive for information on specific trees and stands of trees.
• The 500-Year Forest Foundation.  The foundation is "dedicated to the creation of future ancient forests."  Members and friends also work to identify and protect present-day old growth.
• Friends of Allegheny Wilderness - The Friends work to make wilderness protection a priority in the stewardship of Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest, including its extensive old growth.
• Highlands Nature Sanctuary.  The Sanctuary has as its mission uniting forest fragments in southern Ohio to restore a large contiguous block of native old-growth forest.  Its 1700 acres of holdings include old-growth remnants. 
• Kentucky Heartwood. Learning about and helping to preserve Kentucky's old-growth forest is one of the priorities of this activist organization.
• Kentucky Natural Lands Trust - The Lands Trust provides information on Blanton Forest, 2350 acres of old growth, which it stewards.  
• Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - Manomet conducts original research on natural systems and wildlife in the Northeastern United States.
• Northeast Wilderness Trust.  Northeast Wilderness Trust is a regional land trust working, through conservation easements and land acquisition, to preserve forests to become future old growth.
• The North Mountain Old Forest Society  The society's mission is the restoration and conservation of old-growth forests on private land in Nova Scotia.
• Nova Scotia Ecology Action Centre - The Center focuses on protecting public lands. Most lands that they are proposing for protection include old or potential/future old-growth Acadian forest.
• Nova Scotia Nature Trust.  Preservation of remnants of old-growth forest is among the Nature Trust's projects.
• Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves - On its web site the division includes descriptions of such old-growth sites as Heuston Woods and Johnson Woods State Nature Preserves.
• Old List East. Lists the maximum ages of tree species in eastern North America.  
• Ontario's Old-Growth Forests.  A companion to the book Ontario's Old-Growth Forests by Michael Henry and Peter Quinby, the site will list updates to the book and invites reports on newly discovered old growth.
• Penn's Woods: An Auto Tour of Old-Growth Forests.  Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources presents information on selected existing old-growth and second-growth sites in Pennsylvania.
• Primal Forests - Ancient Trees Community.  A networking site created by Ed Frank and devoted to all facets of the forests of eastern North America, including poetry and legends.
• Terra Galleria.  This site presents a wide selection of the photographs of nature photographer Quang-Tuan Luong, including a spectacular set of pictures of Congaree National Park,  taken in 2006.
• Terra--The Earth Renewal and Restoration Alliance - The Terra site, at the web address of the former Champion Tree Project, features old-growth sites in New York State.     
• Western Kentucky University Bioweb - Professor Albert Meier has posted a portfolio of photographs of old growth.
• Wild South - Wild South is a grassroots forest protection organization, headquartered in Alabama. It has worked to impact forest policy and management in the southeast since 1991.  
• Western North Carolina Alliance - WCNA is a grassroots environmental organization, which addresses issues critical to its mountain communities, including the preservation of old-growth forest.
• The White Pine Society - 98% of Minnesota's White Pines are gone. We must manage the last 2% sustainably. The purpose of this site is to Inform and Motivate.