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Notice how i Emphasized (Deciduous) Forest, I know there's Still Undisturbed Coniferous Forest left Somewhere but there most likely in colder Remote Climates but as for Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forest...I don't know.
I always wondered if there's anywhere left like that. Where there's still old-growth Deciduous Forest and very Little is Disturbed by People and Industrialization. If anyone knows where i can find this peaceful serene Awesome place let me know please...lol It would be great to visit and Explore such an amazing place.
Notice how i Emphasized (Deciduous) Forest, I know there's Still Undisturbed Coniferous Forest left Somewhere but there most likely in colder Remote Climates but as for Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forest...I don't know.
I always wondered if there's anywhere left like that. Where there's still old-growth Deciduous Forest and very Little is Disturbed by People and Industrialization. If anyone knows where i can find this peaceful serene Awesome place let me know please...lol It would be great to visit and Explore such an amazing place.
Thanks guys
There are of course small parcels here and there in the mountains, especially in the wild Adirondacks --- usually in hard to get places like steep slopes and valleys. Massachusetts did a survey a few years ago and they came up with a suprising number of small old growth parcels. You can even find some in New York City! About 40 acres of old growth in the New York Botanical Gardens in The Bronx Park!
There are of course small parcels here and there in the mountains, especially in the wild Adirondacks --- usually in hard to get places like steep slopes and valleys. Massachusetts did a survey a few years ago and they came up with a suprising number of small old growth parcels. You can even find some in New York City! About 40 acres of old growth in the New York Botanical Gardens in The Bronx Park!
Wow!! that's surprising... New York City has Old Growth Forest!
That's pretty Shocking! lol...
In parts of western North Carolina there are still large portions of virgin forest that have seen very little or no human contact. Parts of the Joyce Kilmer slickrock wilderness are as remote as it gets in the eastern U.S.
The same goes for a lot of spots in extreme western NC, the sparsely populated counties of Swain, Cherokee, Clay, Graham and portions of Jackson and Macon counties. These counties average only 20-50 people per square mile.
Most people would be surprised to know that about 25% of the Bronx is wooded or parkland. There is the 40 acre 'Native Forest' in the Botanical gardens of course as well as the wood in Van Cortland Park which is much larger and, although not old growth, has been (relatively) undisturbed long enough to reach maturity (like many forests in the Northeast).
Also, whenever you are in a hilly/mountainous area, just look for the steepest, rockiest ravines and chances are you are looking at fragments of old growth. It simply wasn't economical (or easy) to log those areas.
"Scientists estimate that close to 350,000 acres of old-growth forests remain in the state of New York."
That is based on a criteria that requires any given area of old-growth to be at least 10 acres in size. There are many other smaller parcels (like those ravines I mentioned above).
Also, the definition of old-growth is fuzzy. Some will claim that "90% of the Adirondack forest was logged between 1890 and 1920." This does not mean that 90% of the forest was cut down, In fact, it means that 90% of the Adirondacks was culled of the 'desirable species', Balsam fir. Most of the forest was left standing despite period photographs of denuded hillsides. Yet, areas that had 5% of their standing stock removeed are not classified as old-growth despite the fact that they are climax forests of native species that lost a small percentage of their balsam fir population 100 years ago.
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The big one is the Pemigewasset Wilderness north of Lincoln, NH- which is part of the White Mountain National Forest.
The wilderness area has old growth forest, scrub forest and higher elevations, and granite cliffs. The climate can be extreme with the possibility of snow nearly every month of the calendar year.
Some of the most remote areas of deciduous forest in the US can be found in the Appalachians of Eastern Kentucky... as long as they're not laying over a large coal deposit, that is.
I have to agree regarding the western NC counties. It does get very, very remote.
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