September 28th, 2023 by WCBC Radio

Environmental advocates are looking for protections of old-growth forests. In 2022, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to have old-growth forests across the country inventoried, The US Forest Service agency is responsible for more than 24-million acres of old-growth forests. Dan’s Mountain Wildlife Management area is part of the State of Maryland’s Old Growth Forests with pines dating back to the 1600s.  Sam Evans with the Southern Environmental Law Center says the U-S Forest Service needs to consider which forests should be cut, and which shouldn’t…

Studies find old-growth forests can store between 41 and 84-percent of the total carbon stock of all trees. Losing these trees represents a carbon equivalent to one-quarter of the country’s annual fossil-fuel emissions. Evans says younger forests don’t match up…