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Definition of Old growth
1. Noun. Forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity.
Medical Definition of Old growth
1. Timber stands with the following characteristics: large mature and over-mature trees in the overstory, snags, dead and decaying logs on the ground, and a multi-layered canopy with trees of several age classes. (05 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Growth
Literary usage of Old growth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Northwest Forest Plan: A Report to the President and Congress by E. Thomas Tuchmann (1998)
"Amounts of Late-Successional and Old-Growth Forests Considerable debate appears in
... Early estimates of the extent of old-growth forests before European ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1893)
"The old growth consists mainly of oaks, tho blackjack and post oak prevailing,
with Spanish oak and red oak—tho natives confound the two—in spots obi ..."
3. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"The study suggests that old- growth P. contorta trees tolerate dwarf mistletoe
infection with significantly less effect than do younger trees. ..."
4. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Old-growth Douglas-fir had been heavily logged prior to that inventory, especially
in western Washington. Andrews and Cowlin (1940) report that "Puget ..."
5. Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild edited by David Pilz, Randy Molina (1998)
"Conference Presentations on Diversity and Conservation of Forest Fungi Study 1:
Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Old- Growth Pseudotsuga menziesii-Tsuga ..."
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