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Prospects for
Rediscovery
and Recovery
Edited by
Mary Byrd Davis
Foreword by John Davis
ISLAND PRESS
Washington, D.C. • Covelo, California
Copyright© 1996 by Island Press
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ISLAND PRESS is a trademark of The Center for Resource Economics.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following previ
ously copyrighted material. Chapter 4 is based on material copyright© 1995 and
published by Ecological Society of America: "Possible Ecological Mechanisms for
Loss of Vernal Diversity in Logged Eastern Deciduous Forests." Chapter 7 includes
an excerpt from "Mterlife" by Matthew Murrey, copyright© 1994 Matthew Murrey.
Chapter 16 is copyright © 1994 State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Re
sources. Reprinted with permission.
No copyright claim is made on chapter 17, a work produced by an employee of the
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eastern old-growth forests: prospects for rediscovery and recovery/
edited by Mary Byrd Davis; foreword by John Davis
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-55963-408-1 (cloth).-ISBN 1-55963-409-X (pbk.)
1. Old growth forests-East (U.S.) 2. Forest ecology-East (U.S.)
3. Forest conservation-East (U.S.) I. Davis, Mary B.
SD387.043E27 1996
333. 78' 4--dc20 96-904
CIP
Printed on recycled, acid-free paper @
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Foreword xi
John Davis
Preface
XV
Mary Byrd Davis
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Definitions and History 3
Robert Leverett
Chapter2 Extent and Location 18
Mary Byrd Davis
Part II Biological and Cultural Values
Chapter 3 Using Lichens to Assess Ecological Continuity in
Northeastern Forests 35
Steven B. Selva
Chapter4 Biodiversity in the Herbaceous1.ayer and Salamanders
in Appalachian Primary Forests 49
Albert J. Meier, Susan Power Bratton, and
David Cameron Duffy
Chapter 5 The Importance of Old Growth to Carnivores in
Eastern Deciduous Forests 65
Michael R. Pelton
vii
viii Contents
Chapter 6 Functional Roles of Eastern Old Growth in
Promoting Forest Bird Diversity 76
J. Christopher Haney and Charles P. Schaad!
Chapter 7 Old-Growth Spirituality 89
Michael Perlman
Chapter 8 Old-Growth Forests: A Native American
Perspective 101
Standing Woman (Cherokee) and Steve Comer
(Mahican)
Part III Identification
Chapter 9 Black Growth and Fiddlebutts: The Nature of
Old-Growth Red Spruce 113
Charles V. Cogbill
Chapter 10 Old-Growth Forests of Southern New England,
New York, and Pennsylvania 126
Peter Dunwiddie, David Foster, Donald Leopold,
and Robert T. Leverett
Chapter 11 Old Growth in the Great Lakes Region 144
Lee E. Frelich and Peter B. Reich
Chapter 12 Central Mesophytic Forests 161
James R. Runkle
Chapter 13 Old-Growth Oak and Oak-Hickory Forests 178
Peter S. White and Ricky D. White
Chapter 14 Old Growth in Southeastern Wetlands 199
J. Merrill Lynch
Chapter 15 Longleaf Pine Forest, Going, Going, ... 210
D. Bruce Means
Part IV Preservation and Restoration
Chapter 16 Identification and Protection of Old Growth on
State-Owned Land in Minnesota 233
Kurt A. Rusterholz
Chapter 17 National Forests in the Eastern Region: Land
Allocation and Planning for Old Growth 245
Lucy E. Tyrrell
Contents ix
Chapter 18 The Nature Conservancy's Preservation of
Old Growth 274
Kathy Seaton
Chapter 19 Cook Forest State Park: Reflections of a
Preservationist 284
Anthony Eaton Cook
Chapter 20 Landscape Heterogeneity of Hemlock-Hardwood
Forest in Northern Michigan 291
Margaret B. Davis, Timothy E. Parshall, and
James B. Ferrari
Chapter 21 The Restoration of Old Growth: Why and How 305
Stephen C. Trombulak
Chapter 22 Tree Rings and Ancient Forest History 321
David W. Stahle
Chapter 23 How Much Old Growth Is Enough? 344
Robert Zahner
Afterword: Future Old Growth 359
Bill McKibben
Glossary 365
Contributors 369
Index 375
