RACC Virtual Seminar Recording: Scientific Evidence Linking Old-Growth Forests with Carbon Uptake

RACC 2020-21 Speaker Series “Conservation Today”
“Recent Scientific Evidence Linking Old-Growth Forests with Carbon Uptake“
Presented by Joan Maloof, Old-Growth Forest Network on January 6, 2021

We know that old-growth forests are important for many reasons…they harbor maximum biodiversity, they clean our water, and they are places of beauty and inspiration. More recently we have come to discover how important they are for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In this talk Joan Maloof will discuss the recent scientific findings linking preserved forests with carbon uptake. She will also discuss her efforts to save the few old-growth forests that remain, though the Old-Growth Forest Network, an organization she founded in 2012.

Dr. Joan Maloof is a professor emerita at Salisbury University. She is the author of four books about forests: Teaching the Trees; Among the Ancients; Nature’s Temples; and The Living Forest. Maloof is the founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, the only national organization specifically working to save our oldest forests.
https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/