Old-growth forests, with their abundant deadwood, multiple canopy layers, and variation in tree ages, densities, and sizes, are different than our ecologically young second growth forests. These differences have important implications for forest benefits such as wildlife habitat and climate change mitigation.
We cannot re-create true old-growth forests; however, we have opportunities through both passive and active forest management to restore old-growth characteristics to our ecologically young forests in New York and New England.
Cornell Extension will hold two one-hour Restoring Old-Growth Characteristics webinars on May 17th at noon and again at 7 pm
In these webinars, Paul Catanzaro from the University of Massachusetts will describe the differences between old-growth forests and our current second growth forest and opportunities to restore missing characteristics to our forests while meeting our other goals.
To take part in one of these webinars, obtain your registration ID at https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5IRFqn7oSYm5D-Vyqb8-3Q
If prompted for a password, use “Cornell”.