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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, related to, or being a forest characterized by a large proportion of old trees, a high level of structural complexity, and a history of little human disturbance.
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Examples
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As we drove deeper into the forest and passed under the thick canopy formed by the old-growth trees, the sunlight would mysteriously vanish.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday scrapped a plan, authorized in the last days of the Bush administration, to nearly quadruple the allowable logging on federal lands in western Oregon - including many prized old-growth stands - and open up protected northern spotted owl habitat across Oregon, Washington and Northern California to timber companies.
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The theater is now covered in vines, surrounded by old-growth trees and giant bushes.
Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom Philip Kennicott 2010
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The old-growth forests had been maintained for their nut crop—a major source of food and oils.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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This isn't resource conumption per se, but when we consider that old-growth logging has declined but not stopped due to demand (largely based on price of such woods) and loggers have begun a 10-1 replanting ratio for areas cut down, the bleak notion that every resource used today is a withdrawl from a finite pool available for tomorrow's generations is undermined.
Capitalism as a Benevolent System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So far, a million acres have been logged -- but nine million acres of old-growth forest remain intact.
Carl Pope: Sometimes the Good Guys Win -- But Slowly Carl Pope 2011
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That means that millions of acres of old-growth trees won't be cut and some of the most beautiful and pristine wilderness in America will, for now, stay that way.
Michael Brune: Rainforest, USA Michael Brune 2011
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In fact, by itself, the Tongass accounts for more than one-third of all the remaining old-growth, temperate rainforest habitat in the world.
Michael Brune: Rainforest, USA Michael Brune 2011
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So far, a million acres have been logged -- but nine million acres of old-growth forest remain intact.
Carl Pope: Sometimes the Good Guys Win -- But Slowly Carl Pope 2011
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You can give more people more chainsaws, but they will only cut down more old-growth forests.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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