www.oldgrowthforest.net The Old-Growth Forest Network connects people with nature by creating a national network of protected old-growth forests that will never be logged.
Save them from these morons HEMLOCK FOREST GLOBLAST DESTROYED GLOBLAST MOONBATS NON-SCIENTEST threaten the world 🌎 will end if we don't stop all fossil fuel burning now for 5 years ! And it is they that will destroy it in their scientific ignorance …! 13:54, Wood pellets made from Hemlock Forest put out twice the CO2 as fossil fuel coal. British Columbia hemlock Forest no longer exists because England replaced coal with wood pellets from that clear cut ENTIRE HEMLOCK FOREST..! LOOK IT UP. .....! kzread.info/dash/bejne/lZeM1Kyelqe0kc4.html Excuse me their MOONBAT GLOBAL-NESS, CLIMATARD-NESS WILL DESTROY THE WORLD 🌎 WITH DESERTS IF THESE OBSESSED GLOBLAST IDIOTS ARE NOT STOPPED. …! An ENTIRE HEMLOCK FOREST that changes metric tons of CO2 INTO OXYGEN EVERY DAY CUT DOWN BY ENGLISH MOONBAT GLOBLAST ..? kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZaMzK-FqradhLQ.html
@stacyhazelwood4033Ай бұрын
About how many acres of Fall Creek Falls state park is old growth?
@andrewfetterolf7042Ай бұрын
And rember folks, just like you and me, all trees were born to live and die. If we lose a few elders its not the end of the world, they will rest in peace in their forest as they died with the dignity of never being cut.
@andywomack341427 күн бұрын
Nature doesn't care about our sentiments.
@andrewfetterolf7042Ай бұрын
I dont think the trees approve ov being pumped full of poison. It is a toxic, temprorary solution to a likely permanant infestation. If these trees need a human to feed them insecticide every few years they will not last more than a few decades. Its a silly band aid for an unstoppable force of change. May the hemlocks fair better in thier fight for life than the american chestnut did. It is in natures hands.
@andywomack341427 күн бұрын
We may mourn the loss, but nature doesn't give a shit.
@StumpCreekSentinelАй бұрын
Beginning back in 1991, I borrowed a heavy camcorder and I ventured out into the majestic forested valley through which the Clarion River flows peacefully down through the ancient entrenched meander that time has cut into the unglaciated Allegheny plateau. My objective was to search out the headwaters of each of the tributary streams that feed the river as it passes through Forest, Jefferson and Clarion Counties. A citizens group had taken on an effort to have the Clarion River included in the nation's Wild & Scenic Rivers system. As the United States Congress was moving legislation to designate the Allegheny River as a Wild &Scenic River. A push was made to have a House Amendment include the Clarion River and Mill Creek as Study Rivers in the passage of the Allegheny River Bill. After successfully accomplishing that lobbying effort, the responsibility to conduct the study fell upon the United States Forest Service. I continued with my work towards that end, and I dove deep into researching each and every element of the unique characteristics that were to be considered in determining the qualifications that would be taken into consideration. On October 19th, 1996, these many years of lobbying, the citizens effort paid off and the Congress passed into law and a 51.7 mile segment of the Clarion River was included in the Wild & Scenic Rivers system. While the Cook Forest State Park is well known to many tourist who come to see the spectacular old growth hemlock and pine trees that were given protection nearly a century ago, many others come to paddle the free-flowing waters of the Clarion River. Just as our ancestors took it upon themselves to save the forest for future generations, so too did those who worked so hard to give some protection to the rivers tranquil beauty. Enjoy, and as always, honor those who saw fit to offer you this splendor. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZukwcmfnczOktY.htmlsi=gJH03QwUPbXUZ_o7
@Lifeguard1022 ай бұрын
Another disease from Asia. Are most Asians trying to be destructive and disgusting ?
@debrapaulino9183 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation. The violin is obtrusive though. I learned much. Thank you.
@renee17413 ай бұрын
the cathdral film link doesn't seem to be working(?).. I hope that you're able to save these beautiful trees! Thank you for all you are doing!!
@ronward39494 ай бұрын
Give thanks and praises to the Old Growth Forests, Knowing many others will join in the Chorus, These Forests so grand and sublime, They form amazing canopies grand designs. Standing so strong through Time, Granting us Life Forms that love to climb, Well up In the canopy, absorbing the rains providing cover for the trees, for the network of interbranching branches, absorb the sunlight creating chances, fir Native birds make their nests, finding a security to provide their best, Being there for so many years, Their statures robust, thick barked sincere. Allow for their Santity, Old Growth persists for this remedy. For their Grace's Hemlock wisely portrayed, Times closest relatives surviving, So many years enduring and providing!
@HpBeck_Fieldrecordings5 ай бұрын
Beautiful🙏What more can words say, the pictures speak for themselves.Thanks for showing us this wonderfull and magical place.Greetings from Germany
@connormckean97656 ай бұрын
About a quarter mile away from my house, which is in Western Pennsylvania I saw those 2 exact kinds of salamanders you guys showed in your video haha. Besides that lol this was an awesome heartwarming video ❤️
@karenjohnson27666 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video and your work. Unfortunately, the background music was louder than need be and was difficult to hear everything said. Beautiful forest.
@BookhyphenBound10 ай бұрын
what about the indigenous peoples?
@michaelbalogh8684 Жыл бұрын
I just watched your documentary on Cook Forest old growth hemlocks. I also just returned from a camping trip there this past week. I hadn't been there in fifty years and the park is as majestic and awe inspiring as ever. I would hate to see it disappear as some places have. Please continue your fight to preserve these majestic trees and their habitat.
@gk4539 Жыл бұрын
11:12
@ae-eh6ox Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your hard work and effort . you should take great pride in your efforts.
@dustyscott3066 Жыл бұрын
Here in the Ohio Hocking Hills the Adelgids are found. Considerable efforts to control them. Hoping the latest polar vortex knocked many down. Keep up the valiant efforts.
@natewhelden4463 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful short film and informative. Curious if anyone knows how it's going trying to save these trees from HWA in 2022?
@lonm6433 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video.
@ramongarcia75312 жыл бұрын
Is the soil safe for walking with small dogs? So much/many pesticides on the ground... I'm concerned...
@1590qtop2 жыл бұрын
Well finish up eradicating that HWA Hemlock Wolly Adelgid here quick. Worldwide if necessary!!
@JeffinBville2 жыл бұрын
You need to tell this to the Michigan DNR which never saw a tree it didn't want to cut down. Michigan has 4 million acres of state forests and I mentioned to a DNR officer how we could easily take a million of those acres for old growth and his head literally exploded.
@moonmunster2 жыл бұрын
Laricobious nigrinus is the ticket. They save the hemlocks around my property.
@svendb72 жыл бұрын
3:30 what tree is this?
@svendb72 жыл бұрын
and at 2:58!
@williamgibbons92212 жыл бұрын
Rhododendrons
@svendb72 жыл бұрын
@@williamgibbons9221 it’s superb. How old do you think a rhododendron that size might be? I’m a newbie when it comes to flowering plants and shrubs.
@JeffinBville2 жыл бұрын
Michigan manages 4 million acres of state forest and there are nearly 3 million more acres of National Forest here and not one acre is set aside as Old Growth. I suggested to the MDNR that we set aside a million contiguous acres as 'forever wild' and the guy's head imploded.
@jeppeporsing84792 жыл бұрын
Hey folks and thanks for a lovely video. Good project you got going here - I hope I can come and join in on it one day. ... in the beginning, there is a sequence of a lady introducing us to the forest. She is wearing a vest. A beautiful one. Anyone who happens to know the manufacturer of it???
@jenniferpangallo89473 жыл бұрын
Where I've grown up & lived for 38yrs. Lots of good memories in the forest
@monkeymanwasd12393 жыл бұрын
should old growth trees be thinned to improve forest health
@NatureShy Жыл бұрын
Old growth forests never need thinning, they are already at a healthy natural state as far as tree density goes. Only previously cut and logged forests (second and third growth re-planted forests) may need thinning because generally previously logged forests are not healthy and usually grow back far too dense.
@monkeymanwasd1239 Жыл бұрын
@@NatureShy even old growth trees shade each other out, its just a matter of time.
@palmplanet3 жыл бұрын
Incredible film, hemlocks are my favorite native trees to the Northeast. This has happened in the D.C. area too and Shenandoah National Park, we have lost numerous hemlocks to the HWA, it is devastating. Hopefully we can put in the work needed to save these magnificent "redwoods of the east," and the projects at Cook Forest give me hope. Thanks to all who are helping to save these incredible trees, we owe you.
@gwheyduke3 жыл бұрын
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned book of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables The Overstory by Richard Powers
@washnon3 жыл бұрын
The blight was people not bugs,edit Im so sick by this ,what can we do to help?
@chinoodin47353 жыл бұрын
Can you smell the sweetness of hemlock in a forest far from any maddening crowd?
@ksero10003 жыл бұрын
Where can I find this pesticide for the ones I am trying to grow?
@bobgardin23473 жыл бұрын
Watched for a few minutes and found it interesting. But have to stop to find out where in Pennsylvania Cook forest is, what watershed, and other geographical context. Why wasn't this put up front with a map?
@jenniferpangallo89473 жыл бұрын
Born and raised here 38yrs. It's technically called Cooksburgh.
@silverjinglebobspur13 жыл бұрын
Would old growth white pine, with its release of perines, emit enough of a natural pesticide?
@kurtjohnson14573 жыл бұрын
I’m curious does this blight affect western hemlock as well, or mountain hemlock?
@jaystrock6133 жыл бұрын
The Cooks harvested most of the trees.
@jaystrock6133 жыл бұрын
I used to live in Ohio and me and dad would go camping at Cook forest. I loved it. I live in Western North Carolina now and our Hemloks are dieing.
@ericsteinhauer39913 жыл бұрын
So let me get this straight. Cook family cut most all of the trees till they satisfied their bloodlust. Now you say they are benevolent by SELLING the tree lot for preservation? Guess it was profitable to SELL all the last trees vs having to cut & process them & deliver to market. Another deluded tree hugger movie
@cculler523 жыл бұрын
Jeez. You say treehugger like it's a bad thing. Get over yourself
@lantrick3 жыл бұрын
This video is about " Hemlock Woolly Adelgid" and old growth Hemlock . What video did you watch?
@jenkins21623 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately once a non-native pest enters an area the only effective treatment is pesticides. With no natural check's and balances they are doomed. World trade and travel will continue to complicate this.
@markmark20803 жыл бұрын
One can only imagine how sad the Chestnut Blight was a little over 100 years ago...
@sirnuggets96663 жыл бұрын
American chestnuts may yet make a comeback, there are several nursery's up in Canada and in America that are raising blight resistant American chestnuts
@washnon3 жыл бұрын
@@sirnuggets9666 the american chestnut is still alive it is going to come back and not the asian one either im talking real deal american chestnut
@sirnuggets96663 жыл бұрын
@@washnon yes that's awesome!
@connormckean97656 ай бұрын
Fr
@Freesingskills193 жыл бұрын
what a majical place!!!
@russellcuster86843 жыл бұрын
I go to cook forest every year. It's beautiful walking thru it.
@mint2345678987654323 жыл бұрын
Wonder if anyone remembers the old campground known as "Piney Oaks" on Breezemont Drive Unfortunately it was private land and some idiot cut down the old trees. Mom and Dad would take the family there every summer back in the 60's & 70's.
@westonmatthews55013 жыл бұрын
I hate to say this but I am not sure how an operation of this magnitude is sustainable. Anyway, good luck and hopefully a resistant hemlock is naturally selected in the near future!
@danbrown69413 жыл бұрын
The only way forward is to try my friend #FightForNature
@russj.52963 жыл бұрын
Sadly, I don't think chemical treatments will be able to outsmart nature. I think that with time, Hemlocks will eventually return. However, those that have some level of resistance must be protected as a valuable genetic resistant seed source.
@westonmatthews55013 жыл бұрын
@@russj.5296 I think you are totally right! Continued logging during the chestnut blight may have played a large part in why a resistant batch of trees was never found. Hopefully we won’t make the same mistakes with the hemlocks!
@russj.52963 жыл бұрын
@@westonmatthews5501 Yes, back in the great depression, when the CCC were becoming established, the workers cut down nearly every American Chestnut tree on their lands (which covered many hundreds of thousands of acres, together), as they thought that the incoming blight would kill of the trees anyway. They thought they might as well use the wood rather than it "go to waste". However, what they did not understand was that many Chestnuts they cut down could've had genetic resistance to the blight, and if they left them alone, they might have made a natural comeback. However, in the end, you got to weigh the benefits. Many Chestnuts would die and (even though their wood would become nutrients in the soil) be "wasted", so many thought they ought to at least save the wood. However, what I think would have been best way to preserve some genetics, while saving the wood, was to leave 10 - 20 percent of the american chestnuts on the lands. This way, if there are 1000 chestnuts on the land, and 15 percent was saved, which would make 150 trees, and only 2-4 percent were estimated to have some sort of resistance, then around 2-5 trees would have resistance. Though it sounds like a little, I believe 2-5 per every thousand would have been enough to help them make a comeback within 200 years. Now, because of the cutting, they probably won't make a comeback for another 500 years, I estimate. Now, with the Hemlocks, I am happy to see that I have not yet heard of any widespread logging of healthy/dead ones just to "salvage" the wood.
@faschwank3 жыл бұрын
All the hemlock trees in the Sparta Glen in Sparta, NJ were killed by this same blight. It was turned into a wasteland, and then destroyed by a flash flood. It has since been replanted with other species of tall evergreen. Will never be the same. Do what you can to save this rare gem.
@sirnuggets96663 жыл бұрын
I'll be visiting Cook Forest sometime this summer, I just hope it won't be my last time seeing some of these incredible trees before they're gone forever
@tomreilly63763 жыл бұрын
The overall Atlanta metro area is home to the largest urban forest forest in the United States. What a well done video--and what a magnificent old growth forest!! Congratulations to the Chamblee National Wildlife Federation Community Habitat and to Keep Chamblee Beautiful!!
@old-growthforestnetwork1743 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tom! We have included a number of sites in the Original Forest of Atlanta in the Old-Growth Forest Network, with more to be added. Check out www.oldgrowthforest.net/ga-original-forest-of-atlanta-dekalb-county.
@johngetch73963 жыл бұрын
I was at the susquehannock hemlock this past weekend it's an amazing tree I took the hike with Dale 3 years ago after an informative presentation this week I took a friend who hasn't seen it before he said is it weird that I'm excited about finding a tree I said I'm excited and I've seen it before !
@rt36crazyfists3 жыл бұрын
Many don't realize, many MUSHROOMS associate with hemlock trees. Lots of truffles e.g. Elaphomyces primarily occur with Hemlock in the NE. Many rodents and other mammals depend on Elaphomyces, and other truffles and mushrooms.
@old-growthforestnetwork1743 жыл бұрын
Very interesting - thank you for sharing this information!
@klemkeely47354 жыл бұрын
YAY! Happy Earth Day to OGFN and all of the folks who have brought preserves into the network!
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Save them from these morons HEMLOCK FOREST GLOBLAST DESTROYED GLOBLAST MOONBATS NON-SCIENTEST threaten the world 🌎 will end if we don't stop all fossil fuel burning now for 5 years ! And it is they that will destroy it in their scientific ignorance …! 13:54, Wood pellets made from Hemlock Forest put out twice the CO2 as fossil fuel coal. British Columbia hemlock Forest no longer exists because England replaced coal with wood pellets from that clear cut ENTIRE HEMLOCK FOREST..! LOOK IT UP. .....! kzread.info/dash/bejne/lZeM1Kyelqe0kc4.html Excuse me their MOONBAT GLOBAL-NESS, CLIMATARD-NESS WILL DESTROY THE WORLD 🌎 WITH DESERTS IF THESE OBSESSED GLOBLAST IDIOTS ARE NOT STOPPED. …! An ENTIRE HEMLOCK FOREST that changes metric tons of CO2 INTO OXYGEN EVERY DAY CUT DOWN BY ENGLISH MOONBAT GLOBLAST ..? kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZaMzK-FqradhLQ.html
About how many acres of Fall Creek Falls state park is old growth?
And rember folks, just like you and me, all trees were born to live and die. If we lose a few elders its not the end of the world, they will rest in peace in their forest as they died with the dignity of never being cut.
Nature doesn't care about our sentiments.
I dont think the trees approve ov being pumped full of poison. It is a toxic, temprorary solution to a likely permanant infestation. If these trees need a human to feed them insecticide every few years they will not last more than a few decades. Its a silly band aid for an unstoppable force of change. May the hemlocks fair better in thier fight for life than the american chestnut did. It is in natures hands.
We may mourn the loss, but nature doesn't give a shit.
Beginning back in 1991, I borrowed a heavy camcorder and I ventured out into the majestic forested valley through which the Clarion River flows peacefully down through the ancient entrenched meander that time has cut into the unglaciated Allegheny plateau. My objective was to search out the headwaters of each of the tributary streams that feed the river as it passes through Forest, Jefferson and Clarion Counties. A citizens group had taken on an effort to have the Clarion River included in the nation's Wild & Scenic Rivers system. As the United States Congress was moving legislation to designate the Allegheny River as a Wild &Scenic River. A push was made to have a House Amendment include the Clarion River and Mill Creek as Study Rivers in the passage of the Allegheny River Bill. After successfully accomplishing that lobbying effort, the responsibility to conduct the study fell upon the United States Forest Service. I continued with my work towards that end, and I dove deep into researching each and every element of the unique characteristics that were to be considered in determining the qualifications that would be taken into consideration. On October 19th, 1996, these many years of lobbying, the citizens effort paid off and the Congress passed into law and a 51.7 mile segment of the Clarion River was included in the Wild & Scenic Rivers system. While the Cook Forest State Park is well known to many tourist who come to see the spectacular old growth hemlock and pine trees that were given protection nearly a century ago, many others come to paddle the free-flowing waters of the Clarion River. Just as our ancestors took it upon themselves to save the forest for future generations, so too did those who worked so hard to give some protection to the rivers tranquil beauty. Enjoy, and as always, honor those who saw fit to offer you this splendor. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZukwcmfnczOktY.htmlsi=gJH03QwUPbXUZ_o7
Another disease from Asia. Are most Asians trying to be destructive and disgusting ?
Excellent presentation. The violin is obtrusive though. I learned much. Thank you.
the cathdral film link doesn't seem to be working(?).. I hope that you're able to save these beautiful trees! Thank you for all you are doing!!
Give thanks and praises to the Old Growth Forests, Knowing many others will join in the Chorus, These Forests so grand and sublime, They form amazing canopies grand designs. Standing so strong through Time, Granting us Life Forms that love to climb, Well up In the canopy, absorbing the rains providing cover for the trees, for the network of interbranching branches, absorb the sunlight creating chances, fir Native birds make their nests, finding a security to provide their best, Being there for so many years, Their statures robust, thick barked sincere. Allow for their Santity, Old Growth persists for this remedy. For their Grace's Hemlock wisely portrayed, Times closest relatives surviving, So many years enduring and providing!
Beautiful🙏What more can words say, the pictures speak for themselves.Thanks for showing us this wonderfull and magical place.Greetings from Germany
About a quarter mile away from my house, which is in Western Pennsylvania I saw those 2 exact kinds of salamanders you guys showed in your video haha. Besides that lol this was an awesome heartwarming video ❤️
Thank you for this video and your work. Unfortunately, the background music was louder than need be and was difficult to hear everything said. Beautiful forest.
what about the indigenous peoples?
I just watched your documentary on Cook Forest old growth hemlocks. I also just returned from a camping trip there this past week. I hadn't been there in fifty years and the park is as majestic and awe inspiring as ever. I would hate to see it disappear as some places have. Please continue your fight to preserve these majestic trees and their habitat.
11:12
Thank you for your hard work and effort . you should take great pride in your efforts.
Here in the Ohio Hocking Hills the Adelgids are found. Considerable efforts to control them. Hoping the latest polar vortex knocked many down. Keep up the valiant efforts.
Beautiful short film and informative. Curious if anyone knows how it's going trying to save these trees from HWA in 2022?
Awesome video.
Is the soil safe for walking with small dogs? So much/many pesticides on the ground... I'm concerned...
Well finish up eradicating that HWA Hemlock Wolly Adelgid here quick. Worldwide if necessary!!
You need to tell this to the Michigan DNR which never saw a tree it didn't want to cut down. Michigan has 4 million acres of state forests and I mentioned to a DNR officer how we could easily take a million of those acres for old growth and his head literally exploded.
Laricobious nigrinus is the ticket. They save the hemlocks around my property.
3:30 what tree is this?
and at 2:58!
Rhododendrons
@@williamgibbons9221 it’s superb. How old do you think a rhododendron that size might be? I’m a newbie when it comes to flowering plants and shrubs.
Michigan manages 4 million acres of state forest and there are nearly 3 million more acres of National Forest here and not one acre is set aside as Old Growth. I suggested to the MDNR that we set aside a million contiguous acres as 'forever wild' and the guy's head imploded.
Hey folks and thanks for a lovely video. Good project you got going here - I hope I can come and join in on it one day. ... in the beginning, there is a sequence of a lady introducing us to the forest. She is wearing a vest. A beautiful one. Anyone who happens to know the manufacturer of it???
Where I've grown up & lived for 38yrs. Lots of good memories in the forest
should old growth trees be thinned to improve forest health
Old growth forests never need thinning, they are already at a healthy natural state as far as tree density goes. Only previously cut and logged forests (second and third growth re-planted forests) may need thinning because generally previously logged forests are not healthy and usually grow back far too dense.
@@NatureShy even old growth trees shade each other out, its just a matter of time.
Incredible film, hemlocks are my favorite native trees to the Northeast. This has happened in the D.C. area too and Shenandoah National Park, we have lost numerous hemlocks to the HWA, it is devastating. Hopefully we can put in the work needed to save these magnificent "redwoods of the east," and the projects at Cook Forest give me hope. Thanks to all who are helping to save these incredible trees, we owe you.
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned book of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables The Overstory by Richard Powers
The blight was people not bugs,edit Im so sick by this ,what can we do to help?
Can you smell the sweetness of hemlock in a forest far from any maddening crowd?
Where can I find this pesticide for the ones I am trying to grow?
Watched for a few minutes and found it interesting. But have to stop to find out where in Pennsylvania Cook forest is, what watershed, and other geographical context. Why wasn't this put up front with a map?
Born and raised here 38yrs. It's technically called Cooksburgh.
Would old growth white pine, with its release of perines, emit enough of a natural pesticide?
I’m curious does this blight affect western hemlock as well, or mountain hemlock?
The Cooks harvested most of the trees.
I used to live in Ohio and me and dad would go camping at Cook forest. I loved it. I live in Western North Carolina now and our Hemloks are dieing.
So let me get this straight. Cook family cut most all of the trees till they satisfied their bloodlust. Now you say they are benevolent by SELLING the tree lot for preservation? Guess it was profitable to SELL all the last trees vs having to cut & process them & deliver to market. Another deluded tree hugger movie
Jeez. You say treehugger like it's a bad thing. Get over yourself
This video is about " Hemlock Woolly Adelgid" and old growth Hemlock . What video did you watch?
Unfortunately once a non-native pest enters an area the only effective treatment is pesticides. With no natural check's and balances they are doomed. World trade and travel will continue to complicate this.
One can only imagine how sad the Chestnut Blight was a little over 100 years ago...
American chestnuts may yet make a comeback, there are several nursery's up in Canada and in America that are raising blight resistant American chestnuts
@@sirnuggets9666 the american chestnut is still alive it is going to come back and not the asian one either im talking real deal american chestnut
@@washnon yes that's awesome!
Fr
what a majical place!!!
I go to cook forest every year. It's beautiful walking thru it.
Wonder if anyone remembers the old campground known as "Piney Oaks" on Breezemont Drive Unfortunately it was private land and some idiot cut down the old trees. Mom and Dad would take the family there every summer back in the 60's & 70's.
I hate to say this but I am not sure how an operation of this magnitude is sustainable. Anyway, good luck and hopefully a resistant hemlock is naturally selected in the near future!
The only way forward is to try my friend #FightForNature
Sadly, I don't think chemical treatments will be able to outsmart nature. I think that with time, Hemlocks will eventually return. However, those that have some level of resistance must be protected as a valuable genetic resistant seed source.
@@russj.5296 I think you are totally right! Continued logging during the chestnut blight may have played a large part in why a resistant batch of trees was never found. Hopefully we won’t make the same mistakes with the hemlocks!
@@westonmatthews5501 Yes, back in the great depression, when the CCC were becoming established, the workers cut down nearly every American Chestnut tree on their lands (which covered many hundreds of thousands of acres, together), as they thought that the incoming blight would kill of the trees anyway. They thought they might as well use the wood rather than it "go to waste". However, what they did not understand was that many Chestnuts they cut down could've had genetic resistance to the blight, and if they left them alone, they might have made a natural comeback. However, in the end, you got to weigh the benefits. Many Chestnuts would die and (even though their wood would become nutrients in the soil) be "wasted", so many thought they ought to at least save the wood. However, what I think would have been best way to preserve some genetics, while saving the wood, was to leave 10 - 20 percent of the american chestnuts on the lands. This way, if there are 1000 chestnuts on the land, and 15 percent was saved, which would make 150 trees, and only 2-4 percent were estimated to have some sort of resistance, then around 2-5 trees would have resistance. Though it sounds like a little, I believe 2-5 per every thousand would have been enough to help them make a comeback within 200 years. Now, because of the cutting, they probably won't make a comeback for another 500 years, I estimate. Now, with the Hemlocks, I am happy to see that I have not yet heard of any widespread logging of healthy/dead ones just to "salvage" the wood.
All the hemlock trees in the Sparta Glen in Sparta, NJ were killed by this same blight. It was turned into a wasteland, and then destroyed by a flash flood. It has since been replanted with other species of tall evergreen. Will never be the same. Do what you can to save this rare gem.
I'll be visiting Cook Forest sometime this summer, I just hope it won't be my last time seeing some of these incredible trees before they're gone forever
The overall Atlanta metro area is home to the largest urban forest forest in the United States. What a well done video--and what a magnificent old growth forest!! Congratulations to the Chamblee National Wildlife Federation Community Habitat and to Keep Chamblee Beautiful!!
Thank you, Tom! We have included a number of sites in the Original Forest of Atlanta in the Old-Growth Forest Network, with more to be added. Check out www.oldgrowthforest.net/ga-original-forest-of-atlanta-dekalb-county.
I was at the susquehannock hemlock this past weekend it's an amazing tree I took the hike with Dale 3 years ago after an informative presentation this week I took a friend who hasn't seen it before he said is it weird that I'm excited about finding a tree I said I'm excited and I've seen it before !
Many don't realize, many MUSHROOMS associate with hemlock trees. Lots of truffles e.g. Elaphomyces primarily occur with Hemlock in the NE. Many rodents and other mammals depend on Elaphomyces, and other truffles and mushrooms.
Very interesting - thank you for sharing this information!
YAY! Happy Earth Day to OGFN and all of the folks who have brought preserves into the network!