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pnw-forest-side · 1 year

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Alone, but not really

#forest aesthetic #rainforests #olympic national park #old growth trees #pnw #washington state #ferns #moss #olympic peninsula #trees #wander #skokomish river valley

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summerwages · 7 months

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picnic in the park..

while the felling of old growth fir may not find favor in retrospect their unique characteristics can still be appreciated..this table is 85 ft 10 in long about 4 in thick and some 36 in wide..one of six sawn from the same log by Hull & Oaks in the mid 80s..

#oregon #old growth trees #native trees

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forestgreenivy · 14 days

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Home will never lose its magic.

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just-lookup · 2 years

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Protect her

Delight in accompanying her each day

Feel how she strengthens your body

Observe the changes in your mind

Be still

Breathe in rhythm to her heart

You are her child

Exchange soft whisperers

Into the treetops

Shed layers that no longer serve

Stand tall as they dance to the breeze

Oh how they congratulate you !

In all they’ve witnessed

From their seed to their fruit

You are part of their story

Now attached to their roots

Mother calls us home

Orange sky dims to dusk

Until this time tomorrow

May you hold this moment

Never rushed

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ny-moodboard · 2 years

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headspace-hotel · 1 year

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I needed to make a post about how brain-explodingly huge trees actually are and how what you think is a "mature" tree is so tiny and barely beginning its life so i drew a sketchy picture about it

Liriodendron tulipifera, known as tulip poplar (it is not a poplar, its closest living relatives outside Liriodendron genus are magnolias) is a tree common in forests of the eastern United States. It was very valued for timber and when most of the Eastern forests were clear cut, almost all of the great ancient tulip poplars were destroyed. The tallest L. tulipifera that still exists is in a secret location in West Virginia, and it is 191 feet tall

anyways logging of old growth forests is an unthinkable crime against a hundred generations of descendants

#trees #old growth forests

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pickleweed2 · 2 months

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a huge two-stem Redwood with beautiful trunk flare

Redwood National Park, California

#redwoods #forest floor #coastal forest #ancient trees #old growth forest #dendrophilia #redwood national park #public lands #forest photography #nature photography #landscape photography #original photographers #nikon photography #nikon #24mm-120mm #photographers on tumblr

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frommylimitedtravels · 4 months

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Cedars and ferns - Skokomish River Valley, O.N.P.

#forests #cedar trees #ferns #olympic national park #pnw #washington state #skokomish river #old growth forest

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pamietniko · 10 months

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Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

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rebeccathenaturalist · 11 months

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So on the surface this looks like a good thing. After all, we need mature and old-growth forests as they're havens for species dependent on that habitat type, and they are also exceptionally good carbon sinks compared to younger, less complex forests. (A big, old tree will still absorb and hold more carbon than a new, quick-growing one, and in fact for the first twenty or so years of its life a tree is actually carbon positive, releasing more than it absorbs.)

However, timber industries are trying to paint mature forests as fire hazards that need to be thinned out due to an abundance of plant life. They also tend to oppose leaving snags and nurse logs in the forest as "fuel", because they'd rather salvage what lumber they can from a freshly dead tree. So of course they're trying to push for cutting down trees as the solution to climate change's threat to mature forests.

Large, old trees are generally better adapted to surviving a fire simply by sheer size. Some have other adaptations, such as deeply grooved bark that can create relatively cooler pockets of air around the tree to help it survive, and the branches of older, taller trees of some species are higher up the trunk, away from lower-burning fires. And those old trees that survive are often important for helping to restore the forest ecosystem afterward, from providing seeds for new trees to offering wildlife safe haven and food.

When timber companies come in and log a forest, even if they don't take all the trees, they leave behind all the branches and twigs and just take the trunks. This creates a buildup of fine fuels that burn very quickly (think the twigs and paper you use to start a campfire), while removing coarse fuels that take longer to catch fire. In fact, an area that is subjected to salvage logging after a fire is much more likely to burn again within a few years due to all the fine fuels left behind by salvage logging.

Another factor is that not all forests are the same, even at similar ages. Here in the Pacific Northwest, as one example, the forests east of the Cascades live in drier conditions with slower plant growth, and low-level wildfires that can clean out ladder fuels before they pile up too high are more common. In those locations prescribed burns make sense.

However, the fire ecology of forests on the west side is less understood; because lightning storms are less common and the climate is wetter, fires just don't happen as often. And west-side forests are simply more productive, with denser vegetation that grows back quickly after even large fires like 2017's Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia River Gorge. Historically speaking, west-side forests get fewer, but larger, fires. So the prescribed burns and other strategies employed for east-side forests aren't necessarily a good fit.

Finally, mature forests are much more biodiverse, and support many more species than a monocultural tree plantation. As climate change continues to affect the planet, mature forests and other complex ecosystems are going to become increasingly crucial to protecting numerous species, to include those dependent only on those ecosystem types. Thinning may seem like a great idea at first, but even if it isn't as destructive as clearcutting it will still damage a forest in ways that will take years to restore.

We really need to be wary of the narrative that thinning is the only way to curb climate change's effects on mature forests. It's a more complex situation than that, and we need to prioritize preserving these increasingly rare places as much as possible.

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pnw-forest-side · 10 months

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Old growth forests are just cool.

Olympic National Park 6/23

#forests #forest aesthetic #old growth forest #olympic national park #staircase #pnw #washington state #big trees

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forestgreenivy · 6 months

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Have I mentioned how much I love old growth trees? This is me and the species that started my obsession - the Live Oak.

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lowquality-buffet · 10 months

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Paths like this one are freaking awesome, and so Washington State. The Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir on the left are at least 400 years old, and the tops are way tf up there

#big trees #pnw #olympic national park #old growth forests #washington state #mine

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darktripz · 5 months

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#pnw #fall #fog #autumn #mist #leaves #trees #forest #old growth forest #cascadia #darktripz #lucasallencook

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headspace-hotel · 1 year

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i just saved a bunch of pictures of old growth trees in the eastern USA and I have to put them here so i can have space on my phone without losing Big Tree

#trees #old growth forest #forests

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foliorumviridis · 2 years

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