Shenandoah National Park's Whiteoak Canyon to Join Old-Growth Forest Network - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather

SNP's Whiteoak Canyon to Join Old-Growth Forest Network - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather



Come join us 10am on April 3rd!

Radio show about the Old-Growth Forest Network

Hugging "The Tree" in Sipsey Wilderness, Alabama

A radio interview about the Old-Growth Forest Network:
Midday with Dan Rodericks, WYPR Public Radio, Feb. 25, 2014

Old growth survey available AND Nature writing residency

Old-growth forest in the Adirondacks

Old Growth in the East: A Survey is now available through the website of the Old-Growth Forest Network http://www.oldgrowthforest.net/#!books/c1dyj  (scroll to bottom of page). This survey was published by Mary Byrd Davis in 2003. It is the only document of its kind, detailing the remaining old-growth forests in the eastern United States. Davis passed away in 2011 and her family donated the rights of the survey to the Network. Her family has also created a Mary Byrd Davis Nature Writing Residency in the French Pyrenees. Applications are now being accepted through March 31st. Proposals are welcomed from published writers in any area of environmental literature. See http://bordeneuveretreat.com/amics/mary-byrd-davis-residency/ for more details.

Save Stadium Woods!

A great group of people are working hard to save Stadium Woods - an old-growth forest on the campus of Virginia Tech. Every forest would benefit from having such a dedicated group speaking out to protect it. Here is a link to a newspaper article about it if you want to know more. I am looking forward to visiting this forest on April 3 and sharing stories about the Old-Growth Forest Network at a talk that evening. Come join us if you can!
 http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/article_29498a3a-7af5-11e3-8c9b-0019bb30f31a.html

Joan in Ramsey's Draft - another Virginia old-growth forest.
 

Forest Dedication Dec. 8 for San Diego County, CA

The next forest to be dedicated into the Old-Growth Forest Network will be Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County, California. The dedication will be held at 1pm on Sunday, Dec. 8th  All are welcome. Call for details 410-251-1800.

Jamie Phillips and Joan Maloof standing by the ancient trees at Palomar Mountain State Park

Maryland forest lovers- time to speak out

Marylanders have a great opportunity to speak out for Wildlands. This is important!
Some of the hearings have already passed, but written comments will be accepted until December 9th.
read the Baltimore Sun article here.

Musician chooses OGFN for "Play it Forward" campaign

Singer-songwriter Bob Sima has chosen the Old-Growth Forest Network as his “Play it Forward” organization of the month! Bob has been called “Eckhart Tolle with a guitar” he is more influenced by the likes of Rumi and Gandhi than he is by Dylan and Springsteen. Bob says: "Each and every song I channel begins as my personal conversation with Source delivered as life lessons of spiritual growth and transformation. Just as these conversations birth expansion, awakening, and remembrance in me, I share my gift to soften the hardest of hearts, widen the narrowest of smiles, loosen the tightest of grips, lighten the heaviest of loads, and thin the thickest of walls of as many souls as I can possibly reach."

With a life view such as that it is no surprise that Bob Sima gives away his music for free. When you go to the site below, there is a tip jar for anyone who wants to "pay" when they download any or all of the songs. All tips received during this month will be gifted to Old-Growth Forest Network!
http://www.noisetrade.com/bobsimamusic/free-bob-sima-music

Joan playing in a beech tree