The 400-year-old trees of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest

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In the cathedral-like groves of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in western North Carolina, you don’t have to venture deep to find massive, ancient poplar trees. Why weren’t these 400-year-old trees logged? And what does it take to qualify as an “old-growth forest”? Turns out the answer involves far more than impressive trees.

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