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Old growth Pine Forest, Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve
As conservationists, we often mourn the forests we never saw. Much of Ontario was once covered in old growth forest – ancient ecosystems with complex forest structure, large quantities of woody material, and unique types of habitats and nutrient cycling. Many of the trees in these forests would have been hundreds of years old, towering ...