NORTHEAST

Mount Katahdin, in Baxter State Park, Maine (Piscataquis County): approximately 5,000 acres of uncut subalpine forest divided among several locations including North Peaks and Northwest Basin. The forest is almost entirely balsam fir.

The Bowl, in the Sandwich Range Wilderness of White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire (Grafton County): more than 500 acres of old growth covering the western side of a mountain valley. Communities vary with elevation.

The Cape Research Natural Area, in Green Mountain National Forest (Rutland County): a 295-acre area with approximately 100 acres of old-growth northern hardwood forest. (Beech, sugar maple, and yellow birch are major constituents of northern hardwoods.)

Southern Five Ponds Wilderness, in Adirondack State Park, New York (Herkimer and Hamilton Counties): some 50,000 contiguous acres of unlogged forest representing four main community types: poor fen, rich fen, upland conifer, and upland mixed.

Mount Greylock State Reservation, in western Massachusetts (Berkshire County): a total of 555 acres of old growth divided among four sites, including  Paris-Bacon-Money Brooks, some four hundred acres of hemlock-hardwoods old growth with trees up to 350 years in age on the steep western side of Mount Greylock. 

Cook Forest State Park, in western Pennsylvania (Clarion, Jefferson, and Forest Counties): old growth, between 171 and 500 acres in extent, with numerous White Pine over 150 feet tall, within a 7200-acre forest.

Belt Woods, southeastern Maryland (Prince George's County): around 45 acres of never-logged forest, within a 624-acre farm protected under Maryland's Wildlands Preservation system. Prominent among the trees are tulip tree, and white, northern red, and black oak.

SOUTHEAST

James Madison Estate, Montpelier, central Virginia (Orange County): a 200-acre National Natural Landmark of essentially undisturbed forest surrounded by 400 acres of forest with scattered old-growth remnants. White oak and northern red oak dominate the upper slopes; tulip tree, hickory, and oak, the lower slopes.

Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, in Pisgah National forest in North Carolina (Burke County): some 10,000 acres of unlogged forest with white pine as tall as 168 feet and eastern hemlock to 147 feet.

Congaree National Park, in central South Carolina (Richland County): approximately 11,000 acres of old-growth bottomland hardwoods and cypress-tupelo systems on the floodplain of the Congaree River, within the National Park.

Marshall Forest Preserve, northwestern Georgia (Floyd County): 90 acres of unlogged pine-oak and mixed hardwood forest on a 252-acre site owned by The Nature Conservancy.

Big Cypress National Preserve, in Florida (Collier County): unlogged scrub cypress on 158,000 acres of the preserve. Growing on shallow sand or marl, the trees were too scrawny to have been deemed worth logging.

Fall Branch, in Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee:  150 acres of unlogged fores below the falls of Fall Branch in Citico Creek Wilderness.

Laurel Knob in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina:  891 contiguous acres of primary forest with a wide variety of forest communities.

Information about eastern and western North Carolina is available, thanks to Matthew Patterson and Robert Messick respectively. CLICK on one of the links below: West   East

SOUTH-CENTRAL

Latourneau Woods, western Kentucky (Fulton County):  an 870-acre bottomland hardwood forest, largely undisturbed by logging, in the Mississippi River floodplain.  The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources manages the state-owned site.

Albright Grove, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (Sevier County): an unlogged grove of tulip tree and hemlock, one small example of an estimated 150,000 acres of old-growth in North Carolina's and Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains Park.

Green Ash Research Natural Area, in Delta National Forest, Mississippi (Sharkey County): seventy acres of virgin bottomland hardwood forest dominated by Nuttall oak, American elm, and green ash.

Bayou Boeuf Cypress, in the Evangeline District of Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana: a 37-acre cypress-tupelo forest along the bayou in the floodplain of the Red River.

Boykin Spring Longleaf, in Angelina National Forest, eastern Texas (Angelina County): approximately 90 acres of old-growth longleaf within a 384-acre area. The herbaceous layer includes more than 170 species.

Dismal Hollow Research Natural Area, in Ozark National Forest, Arkansas (Newton County): an estimated 400 acres of undisrupted forest in the bottom of a steep canyon. Beech dominate.

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, southwestern Oklahoma (Comanche County): patches of old-growth cross timbers woodland and of savanna with scattered post oak within the 60,000-acre refuge, parts of which are closed to the public.

NORTH-CENTRAL

Dysart Woods, eastern Ohio (Belmont County): fifty acres of mixed mesophytic deciduous forest within the 455-acre Dysart farm of Ohio University. The forest is in two ravines separated by a ridge.

Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest Research Natural Area, Hoosier National Forest, south-central Indiana (Orange County): within an 88-acre Research Natural Area, an old-growth beech-maple forest of uncertain extent.  

Big Oak Tree Natural Area, in Big Oak Tree State Park in Missouri (Mississippi County): old-growth wet-mesic bottomland forest covering 160 acres within a 940-acre natural area.

Beall Woods Nature Preserve and Park, southeastern Illinois (Wabash County): about 270 acres of old growth in a 329-acre site owned by the Illinois Department of Conservation. Includes 6 species of hickory and 11 of oak.

Porcupine Mountain Wilderness State Park, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties): more than 30,000 acres of unlogged northern hardwoods interspersed with logged forest, shrub and conifer swamps, lakes, wet meadows.

Red Lake Peatland, Minnesota (Beltrami, Koochichung, and Lake of Woods Counties): a core area of 83,000 little disturbed acres surrounded by a 150,800-acre wetland. Within the core are more than 1000 acres of forest. Black spruce, northern white-cedar, and tamarack dominate. Ownership of the peatland is 94% state.  

Wyalusing State Park, southwestern Wisconsin (Grant County): some 400 to 800 acres of old growth extending from the Wisconsin River floodplain with its silver maple, elm, and cottonwood, to bluffs 400 or more feet above.

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