SHADE OF ANTIQUITY

摘要

People who live east of the Mississippi River might think of old-growth forest as a luxury out of reach, only available to westerners with access to sequoia preserves or similar landscapes. But there are tracts of old-growth forest in all 26 eastern states. Joan Maloof, a professor of biology and environmental studies at Salisbury University on Maryland's Eastern Shore, has visited at least one old-growth forest in each of these states and chronicled her journeys in Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests (Ruka Press). After she published an earlier book that mentioned, in passing, an old-growth remnant in Maryland, she was deluged by requests for directions to the site.