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    From curiosity to conservation: How a young park ranger discovered two rare, old-growth forests [Image 22 of 29]

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    From curiosity to conservation: How a young park ranger discovered two rare, old-growth forests

    PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES

    12.02.2024

    Photo by Michel Sauret    

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District

    Galen Scheufler, a park ranger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District, holds a trunk sample from a fallen tree estimated to be 140 years old found on Youghiogheny River Lake property before a ceremony at Mill Run Recreation Area in Friendsville, Maryland, Dec. 3, 2024.

    Youghiogheny River Lake now has two forests registered into the Old-Growth Forest Network, which is a nationwide nonprofit with volunteers across the country who find the last remnants of old-growth forests in North America. The two newly-discovered forests are Klondike Ridge forest in Pennsylvania and the Mill Run forest in Maryland.

    Less than one percent of all forests east of the Mississippi River are considered old-growth, containing trees older than 70 or 80 years old.

    (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo by Michel Sauret)

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    Date Taken: 12.02.2024
    Date Posted: 12.16.2024 14:00
    Photo ID: 8802956
    VIRIN: 241203-A-TI382-1276
    Resolution: 5974x4016
    Size: 4 MB
    Location: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, US

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