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This is a list of areas of existing old-growth forest which include at least 10 acres (4.0 hectares) of old growth. Ecoregion information from "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World". (NB: The terms "old growth" and "virgin" may have various definitions and meanings throughout the world. See old-growth forest for more information.)
Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. Cool temperate rainforest in Tasmania, Australia. First growth or virgin forest near Mount Rainier, 1914. An old-growth forest [a] is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological ...
List of oldest trees. Pando, a colony of , is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old. It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary.
Old growth forests and "ancient woodlands" — of varying species, habitats and climates around the world. See also: List of old growth forests . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Primeval forests .
Planted ancient woodland (PAWS) is an ancient woodland site where the native species have been partially or wholly replaced with a non locally native species (usually but not always conifers). These woodlands typically have a plantation structure, with even aged crops of one or two species planted for commercial purposes.
Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining part of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to more than 800 European bisons, Europe's heaviest land animal. [2]
Queensland. Protected bushland at Karawatha, Queensland . Kinglake National Park. Victoria. While much of the forest area was logged in the early part of the 20th century, many old growth trees remain. Lake Mountain. Victoria. Old growth mountain ash and snowgum forests, including habitat for the threatened Leadbeater's possum .
There are boreal forests in Alaska. [4] Forests in Hawaii and the U.S. territories are tropical. [5] The most heavily-forested regions of the U.S. are Maine, New Hampshire, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and West Virginia; the least heavily forested regions are North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.