Spring 2014
Joan with John Davis, Mary Davis' son

Left to Right:Monica Leverett, Bob Leverett, and John Davis (Mary Davis' son) with Joan Maloof, Founder and Director of OGFN.

 
  


Old Growth in the East:

A Survey
 
 
Now available from the Old-Growth Forest Network website!  
 
This publication is the only document that provides the locations of all known Eastern old-growth forests.   It is only available here.    Mary Byrd Davis created the first edition of this book in 1993.   It was a breakthrough work ... Read More 

 

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A concert in Berlin, Maryland to benefit the Old-Growth Forest Network

Musician Bob Sima loves the work of the Old-Growth Forest Network!

ON SUNDAY MAY 4 AT 7PM

To support our work, he will play a benefit concert, "Singing for the Forests",
at the Globe Theater in Berlin, Maryland (voted America's Coolest Small Town).

 Join the fun - for the forests!
Click Here to Buy your Tickets Now or Donate to OGFN!

Our Most Recent Forest in the Network -- in California!

 

Can you imagine taking an aerial tram from the hot, flat desert of Palm Springs, and ending up at the edge of a cool and beautiful old-growth forest that goes on for miles and miles? Well that is the Riverside County, CA, selection for the Old-Growth Forest Network. As a wilderness state park it is protected for all time - not even a pine cone can be removed!

More on our website!

 

On Her Way... to Virginia -- West Virginia -- Ohio!

 

The Old-Growth Forest Network has many devoted supporters in these states. The first week of April,  Joan will be dedicating a forest in Shenandoah National Park and giving talks in Blacksburg and Charlottesville, Virginia. Then she will be off to meet with County Coordinators in West Virginia and Ohio -- we are hoping to have dedications for forests there in the coming year.  Please visit her blog for details of her travels: joanmaloof.blogspot.com.

Old-Growth Forest in Georgia!  

In May 2014 the Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve in Gainesville, of  Hall County, Georgia will become the first forest in Georgia to become a part of the Old-Growth Forest Network.  Read more in our next newsletter!