The Importance of Old Growth Forests

"They make you feel small in the best way," he says of old growth forests. "It's like living stalagmites that are precipitating carbon out of the air into their bodies." The forest holds twice as much dead wood on the ground than a typical second-growth one, and it has more soil enriched with all this organic matter. 'Long after we're gone, those trout lilies are going to keep popping up and those trilliums are going toKeep coming'