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Lost & Found: Remnants of Savannas and Old-Growth Forests

Lost & Found: Remnants of Savannas and Old-Growth Forests Until very recently—just two hundred years ago—nearly the entire eastern half of the United States was covered by vast tracts of American chestnut and yellow birch, oak, hemlock, and maple, all now collectively called “old-growth” or “primary” forests. Reaching into the Midwest, the forests gave way t